The Antares Alien

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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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Making Power Query More Dynamic: The Magic of Lists

Brent Jones

Jan 23, 2022

Making Power Query More Dynamic: The Magic of Lists

Lists can be used to make Power Query more dynamic, like dynamically renaming or reordering columns.

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Power BI: How to show different date calculations on the same date axis.

Brent Jones

Nov 16, 2021

Power BI: How to show different date calculations on the same date axis.

Let's say you have a ticketing system and you want to show a count of tickets based on their created date and also on their completed date.

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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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Power BI: How to Remove Duplicates and Keep Most Recent?

Brent Jones

Aug 7, 2021

Power BI: How to Remove Duplicates and Keep Most Recent?

How to remove duplicate records while ensuring that you keep the most recent item?

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Brent Jones

May 8, 2021

Business Intelligence Trends in 2021

What are companies concerned about in 2021? Data Quality Management, Data Discovery/Visualization, Establishing a data driven culture

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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 Share a Power BI Report or Dashboard

Brent Jones

Mar 23, 2021

How to Share a Power BI Report or Dashboard

There are a couple of options for sharing your Power BI report or dashboard. However, the method you choose will depend on your business sit

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How to Reduce the Size of Your Power BI File

Brent Jones

Mar 9, 2021

How to Reduce the Size of Your Power BI File

One great way to reduce the size of your PBIX file is by splitting it up.

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Power BI Certification? It's the DA-100 Exam

Brent Jones

Feb 12, 2021

Power BI Certification? It's the DA-100 Exam

Is there a certification or exam for Power BI offered by Microsoft? Yes - it is the DA-100: Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI.

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4 Easy Steps to Building Your First Power BI Dashboard

Brent Jones

Jan 23, 2021

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

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Connecting Power BI to Postgre SQL Database

Brent Jones

Dec 5, 2020

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...

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

Brent Jones

Aug 15, 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.

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Brent Jones

Aug 5, 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.

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Brent Jones

Jul 23, 2020

How to Get PDF data with Power BI

The most intriguing thing I discovered is that a country's density does not seem positively correlated with the amount of cases per capita.

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Brent Jones

Jun 27, 2020

Power BI: How to Improve Refresh Speed

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

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Power BI: Easily Find a Column Name with this Function

Brent Jones

Jun 19, 2020

Power BI: Easily Find a Column Name with this Function

I was recently working on a project where there were over 28 thousand tables in the database.

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