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Power of Business Intelligence

Blog by Andrzej Leszkiewicz. Power BI Developer and Consultant.

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Power of Business Intelligence

Power of Business Intelligence

Blog by Andrzej Leszkiewicz. Power BI Developer and Consultant.

  • Better DataViz
    • Posts about IBCS
    • IBCS in Power BI (native visuals)
    • Bad and good charts in Power BI
    • Storytelling with data in Power BI
  • Deneb and Vega ⭐
    • Posts about Deneb and Vega
    • Deneb and Vega overview
    • Deneb Vega templates
    • Custom Vega visualizations
    • Deneb & Vega help
  • PowerofBI.IBCS
  • Power BI Embedded
  • Power BI Reports 📈
  • Books to Read
  • YouTube
  • About

Category: Bad and Good Chart in Power BI

The total row in a Power BI table: Is it wrong?
Bad and Good Chart in Power BI Data Visualization Storytelling with data

The total row in a Power BI table: Is it wrong?

Andrzej Leszkiewicz August 10, 2025

The total row in a Power BI table: Is it wrong? Let me tell you about the complexity of DAX, misleading terms like aggregators and … Read More

Cook Your Reports and Dashboards as a Chef and Cure Business Problems as a Doctor
Bad and Good Chart in Power BI Data Visualization Storytelling with data

Cook Your Reports and Dashboards as a Chef and Cure Business Problems as a Doctor

Andrzej Leszkiewicz July 28, 2024

👨‍⚕️ Healthcare professional (doctor): “I diagnose illnesses and choose treatments based on statistically verified protocols. A client chooses a hospital but does not tell the … Read More

How to Make “Cool” and “Fancy” BI Report
Bad and Good Chart in Power BI Data Visualization Tricks and Workarounds

How to Make “Cool” and “Fancy” BI Report

Andrzej Leszkiewicz May 15, 2024

Your BI report isn’t “cool”? It lacks “cool” backgrounds, effects (3D, shades, gradients), and “cool” images and icons, etc.? Do you want to make your … Read More

Practical Charts: The Essential Guide to Creating Clear, Compelling Charts for Reports and Presentations
Bad and Good Chart in Power BI Books Data Visualization

Practical Charts: The Essential Guide to Creating Clear, Compelling Charts for Reports and Presentations

Andrzej Leszkiewicz March 4, 2024

Nick Desbarats’s Practical Charts is an amazing and really practical book that will help you make good charts. Extremely high-quality content on high-quality (heavy!) paper, … Read More

Nick Desbarats
Which Chart Type is Better? A Dangerous DataViz Pitfall.
Bad and Good Chart in Power BI Data Visualization Storytelling with data

Which Chart Type is Better? A Dangerous DataViz Pitfall.

Andrzej Leszkiewicz February 26, 2024

I’ve just (almost) fallen into a dangerous data visualization pitfall. It was a usual LinkedIn discussion of a data visualization experiment. I realize that the … Read More

Bad and Good Chart in Power BI Data Visualization Tricks and Workarounds

Use interactivity and animation to guide report users

Andrzej Leszkiewicz January 16, 2024

While explanatory reports should be intuitively easy to understand without any legends and tutorials, tools for data exploration may benefit from some complexity and therefore … Read More

Pie Chart?
Bad and Good Chart in Power BI Data Visualization

Pie Chart?

Andrzej Leszkiewicz July 14, 2021
Pie Chart

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