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The Antares Alien
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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!
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Brent Jones
Oct 12, 2018
Analyzing the "All Time Best" Video Games with Power BI
Are there any trends among top selling video games? I decided to tackle that question with some help from our good friend Power BI.
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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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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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Brent Jones
Sep 20, 2018
5 Important Steps to Tell a Story with your Data
Data visualization isn't easy. Many times, it just ends with a quick Excel graph and maybe some explanatory text. As a result, the consu
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Brent Jones
Sep 7, 2018
Power BI: Building a Recipe Dashboard
Can Power BI help us out with keeping up with our recipes? Sure it can!I wanted to try and make a 'cool' recipe search tool. Somethi
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Brent Jones
Sep 4, 2018
Dashboard Design Tips: Learning from the Google Trends Dashboard
Read about how to create a simplistic dashboard like Google Trends with Power BI.
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