The Antares Alien

Power BI | DAX

Blarg! Here, I write about Power BI stuff in a fun and unique way. I also occasionally write about video game development. Thanks for checking out my blog!

Why to Avoid Time Intelligence Functions in DAX

DAX is tough as it is, but when time intelligence functions are introduced into the mix things get complicated quick. I constantly hear...

Brent Jones

Aug 8, 2024

Unity Build Analysis (Updated Version)

For my latest project, I needed to get my game's build size under Google Play's 150MB size limit. My project's size at the time was over 300

Brent Jones

Sep 5, 2022

4 Easy Steps to Building Your First Power BI Dashboard

Have you decided to use Power BI for your business's reporting needs? Or are you just exploring what Power BI can do? In this article, I'll

Brent Jones

Jan 23, 2021

Connecting Power BI to Postgre SQL Database

My team needed to connect to a Postgre SQL database using Power BI. However, we were getting an invalid certificate error and everything...

Brent Jones

Dec 5, 2020

How to Create a Drill-Through page in Power BI

How to leverage Power BI's drill-through feature

Brent Jones

Sep 23, 2020

What Skills Do You Need To Be A Power BI Developer?

In this article, I'll go over some of the main skills I think you will need as a Power BI developer.

Brent Jones

Aug 15, 2020

Power BI: How to Filter

How to filter in Power BI? There are several methods of doing this depending on what you are wanting.

Brent Jones

Aug 5, 2020

Power BI: How to Improve Refresh Speed

When working with Power BI, sometimes the refresh speed is excruciatingly slow.

Brent Jones

Jun 27, 2020

Power BI: What's the difference between "My Workspace" and the other "Workspace"?

There once was a time where I developed a dashboard for my client and published it to "My Workspace". This dashboard was shared with mul...

Brent Jones

Jun 14, 2020

Displaying Unity's Game Build Log

If you ever want or need to display Unity's build report with graphs and charts, you can do that with Power BI. The set up takes a coupl

Brent Jones

Oct 28, 2019

2 Easy Steps to Loop with Power Query! List.Accumulate()

Here's the situation: I have a list of values (text/string). I want to create one single concatenated string based on that list.

Brent Jones

Sep 23, 2019

How to Remove the Header Info on Power BI Widgets

If you are like me, maybe you've wondered (and possibly been a little annoyed) how to remove the small pop-up menus that appear on each

Brent Jones

Jul 18, 2019

Exploring "Overtourism" with Power BI (Part 2)

Continuing from part 1, here I'll describe a little bit more of what I found interesting. Tourist to Population Ratio - I ended up addin

Brent Jones

Jun 9, 2019

Exploring "Overtourism" with Power BI (Part 1)

The alien walks us through a comparison of increases in tourism per country per year. Also go over some Power Query and DAX tips including A

Brent Jones

Jun 8, 2019

What are the Most Common Ju-Jutsu Injuries? Power BI Viz

I've recently started training in MMA and Brazilian Ju-Jutsu. I've done a little Kickboxing in the past before, but Ju-Jutsu is comp

Brent Jones

May 15, 2019

Power BI Design Challenge: Apple's "My Health" App

I wanted to make a Power BI dashboard from the step data that my iPhone records on its "My Health" app.

Brent Jones

Feb 19, 2019

Easily Make Your Own Custom Visuals With Charticulator!

Have you ever wondered how you can get that cool circular, spikey, donut-esque looking chart that's being featured on PowerBi.com?

Brent Jones

Jan 20, 2019

Power BI: What Do Successful Kickstarter Projects Have in Common?

Are there any trends among successful Kickstarter projects? Conversely, are there any trends for failed projects?

Brent Jones

Jan 1, 2019

Look Up! UFO's Show Up In Summer.

Are there any correlations or trends among UFO sightings? Do they tend to occur in a specific month or time of year? Any location? Do they o

Brent Jones

Dec 26, 2018

What Kind of Video Game does the World Like to Buy?

I recently got my hands on a great data set related to video games sales worldwide. Not only does it includes sales data, but also genre, Me

Brent Jones

Dec 12, 2018