Four Easy Things You Can Do Now To Make Your Power BI Reports More Accessible
Accessibility is often overlooked or ignored when it comes to reporting and data visualization. I think there are two reasons...
2018-03-09
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Data Savvy
Power BI Screen Reader Accessibility
I recently wrote a post on the BlueGranite blog called Improving Screen Reader Accessibility in Power BI Reports. It contains...
2018-02-13 (first published: 2018-02-06)
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Ten Ways To Help Your BI Consultant Be Successful
I’ve been working in the field of business intelligence for over ten years, as a consultant for over five years....
2018-02-12 (first published: 2018-01-30)
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Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 5: Affordances
Affordances are a general design concept that comes from physical product design but can be applied to visual design. I...
2017-12-28
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Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 4: The Squint Test
Data visualization should be iterative. You should get a good initial draft put together and then check to make sure...
2017-12-22
770 reads
Design Concepts for Better Power BI Reports Part 3: Gestalt Principles
The Gestalt principles of visual perception describe how humans tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes to...
2017-12-18
689 reads
Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports – Part 2: Preattentive Attributes
Preattentive attributes are visual properties that we notice without using conscious effort to do so. Preattentive processes take place within 200ms...
2017-11-30
829 reads
Design Concepts To Help You Create Better Power BI Reports
I have decided to write a series of blog posts about visual design concepts that can have a big impact...
2017-12-08 (first published: 2017-11-27)
2,382 reads
Biml for a Task Factory Dynamics CRM Source Component
I recently worked on a project where a client wanted to use Biml to create SSIS packages to stage data...
2017-12-05 (first published: 2017-11-22)
1,245 reads
Data Visualization Panel at PASS Summit
Next week is PASS Summit 2017, and I’m excited to be a part of it. One of the sessions in...
2017-10-28
366 reads
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