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Power BI offers a wide range of popular visuals, supplemented with free or paid-for custom visuals, but what if that wasn’t enough? What if you needed a very particular visual, customized for your needs and you have no programming experience? The Charticulator tool, a project from Microsoft Research, is designed to help you out. As an online tool, it allows you to create custom visuals for use in Power BI from plain text files like CSV. This no-coding, drag-and-drop environment replaces the traditional importing of files coded in HTML, C-Sharp or in R.

With Power BI report themes, you can apply design changes to your entire report, such as using corporate colors, or applying new default visual formatting. When you apply a report theme, all visuals in your report use the colors and formatting from your selected theme as their defaults.

Airflow is an open-source data orchestration platform which offers great flexibility. This article will dive deeper into what it is and what its features, best practices, and benefits are.

Introduction Power BI is a great visualization tool but sometimes when you are developing your reports you are asking yourself “why is such feature not present?”. Luckily, Power BI has a great community that is developing external tools to make the development easier.

Considering using Qlik Sense for your data analytics needs? You may wonder which one is right for you: Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS (Qlik Sense SaaS) or Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows. This text will delve into the strengths of Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS and how it compares to the Windows version.

To get a grasp on the possibilities of Power BI, you first have to struggle a little bit to appreciate its capabilities. In this insight, I will provide you with my learnings over the last year and hopefully help you to get on your way quickly.

“It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.” - Allen Klein. Needless to say, it is important to choose your visuals for a report wisely. Via this insight, we want to broaden your view on Power BI visuals.

Back in the years 2010, Scorecarding was very popular in Business Intelligence context. Most BI vendors had a –often separate- module for Scorecarding. It is exciting to see Scorecarding now arriving to Power BI.

This insight explains how Microsoft Sustainability Manager can guide your organization to remove ambiguity from your data and extensive calculations and correctly account for all GHG (Greenhouse gas) emissions.