The Antares Alien

My team needed to connect to a Postgre SQL database using Power BI. However, we were getting an invalid certificate error and everything we tried did not work. "The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure". We tried following the steps listed in this post, but still, no luck. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/The-remote-certificate-is-invalid-according-to-the-validation/td-p/531475 However, there is hope! An alternative is to use the Postgre

How to leverage Power BI's drill-through feature

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What are Dataflows? Dataflows are a new feature released in September of 2018 for Power BI. Just going by the name...

...63% of tweets about airline companies had a negative sentiment... make a heatmap from a Matrix visual.

I always here about the 80/20 rule in theory but I've never actually gone out and tried to find it myself. So I decided to test it out w