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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!

Brent Jones

Sep 5, 2022

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

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4 Easy Steps to Make Power BI Look Good (part 2)

Brent Jones

Mar 21, 2022

4 Easy Steps to Make Power BI Look Good (part 2)

Continuing from part 1, are you still struggling to get Power BI to "feel" professional?

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4 Easy Steps to Make Power BI Look Good (part 1)

Brent Jones

Mar 19, 2022

4 Easy Steps to Make Power BI Look Good (part 1)

Looking for ways to make your Power BI dashboard look good? Here are some guidelines to follow...

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Power BI: Create a Pop-Up Legend and Tooltip When Hovering Over Text

Brent Jones

Aug 27, 2021

Power BI: Create a Pop-Up Legend and Tooltip When Hovering Over Text

I'll describe how you can create a custom tooltip (or help text) that pops up when you hover over text using Power BI.

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Brent Jones

Apr 25, 2021

Power BI Dashboard for Mobile

Did you know you can create an awesome BI analytics dashboard and have it on your phone? Power BI has an app for that!

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How to Create a Drill-Through page in Power BI

Brent Jones

Sep 23, 2020

How to Create a Drill-Through page in Power BI

How to leverage Power BI's drill-through feature

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How to Remove the Header Info on Power BI Widgets

Brent Jones

Jul 18, 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

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Exploring "Overtourism" with Power BI (Part 2)

Brent Jones

Jun 9, 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

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

Brent Jones

May 15, 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

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

Brent Jones

Feb 19, 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.

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Easily Make Your Own Custom Visuals With Charticulator!

Brent Jones

Jan 20, 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?

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

Brent Jones

Jan 1, 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?

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Brent Jones

Dec 26, 2018

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

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

Brent Jones

Dec 12, 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

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63% of Tweets About Airlines are Negative. A Power BI Analysis.

Brent Jones

Dec 4, 2018

63% of Tweets About Airlines are Negative. A Power BI Analysis.

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

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Improve Your Data Visuals: Stock Prices and Midterm Elections

Brent Jones

Nov 6, 2018

Improve Your Data Visuals: Stock Prices and Midterm Elections

Let's take a look at some real world data visualization examples and see how we can improve upon them with storytelling techniques. This

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Building a KPI Dashboard for a Recruiting Company!

Brent Jones

Oct 19, 2018

Building a KPI Dashboard for a Recruiting Company!

For the past couple of years I've worked for a consulting firm and created several dashboards for various purposes.

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MicroStrategy vs Power BI (Report builder tools for desktop)

Brent Jones

Oct 3, 2018

MicroStrategy vs Power BI (Report builder tools for desktop)

In this article, I'll go over the pros and cons of Power BI and MicroStrategy's report builder tools.

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Analyze Your Business's Facebook Page with Power BI

Brent Jones

Oct 1, 2018

Analyze Your Business's Facebook Page with Power BI

Power BI comes with a Facebook connector that allows you to analyze any Facebook page's posts and comments - your business's page as

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Brent Jones

Sep 25, 2018

Best Book to Learn Data Visualization

In this blog, I'll attempt to use some of the major principles in Cole Knaflic's book "Storytelling With Data" to create i

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