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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
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Category: DAX

Data Visualization DAX Tricks and Workarounds

The Real Power of the New Slicers

Andrzej Leszkiewicz February 14, 2026

The Real Power of the New Slicers. Turn Your Slicers into Charts. Power BI and Fabric Summit 2026. February 24, 2026, online (day 2, virtual … Read More

Top N + Others Without Any Changes in the Data Model
Data Visualization DAX Tricks and Workarounds

Top N + Others Without Any Changes in the Data Model

Andrzej Leszkiewicz December 2, 2025

To show Top N records and all other records grouped into “Others” in Power BI, we used to create a new table in the data … Read More

New DAX! User-Defined Functions
Data Modeling Data Visualization DAX

New DAX! User-Defined Functions

Andrzej Leszkiewicz September 16, 2025

Now you can create your own DAX functions, reuse them in your reports, and share them with the community. Power BI Desktop: File | Options … Read More

DAX: SUM vs SUMX misunderstanding
DAX Tricks and Workarounds

DAX: SUM vs SUMX misunderstanding

Andrzej Leszkiewicz March 4, 2024

How common is this misunderstanding, and why does it exist? <false statement>“SUMX ( ‘Table’, ‘Table'[Column] ) is much more expensive (from performance point of view) … Read More

What is more important? Data (ETL, data modeling) or data visualization?
DAX Power Query and M Tricks and Workarounds

What is more important? Data (ETL, data modeling) or data visualization?

Andrzej Leszkiewicz January 16, 2024

⚠ The visual part of business report development is often heavily underestimated (by developers and their customers – business users). Data preparation is important; data … Read More

DAX Performance Tabular Editor

My YouTube Channel

Andrzej Leszkiewicz July 17, 2023

Welcome to my YouTube channel. First video has been published. Subscribe to see the upcoming videos. [youtube video=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXZU9xNHs&list=PL6qbun6zBOG2d9Ui2iq4Rl6Rj6-TAXMry”]

Florence Nightingale’s Rose Diagram
Data Modeling DAX

Florence Nightingale’s Rose Diagram

Andrzej Leszkiewicz December 4, 2022

Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She gained prominence while … Read More

Power BI Pacman
Data Visualization DAX Tricks and Workarounds

Power BI Pacman

Andrzej Leszkiewicz October 6, 2022

Just a joke. But it opens great data visualization possibilities. Everything (almost) is possible. You know the rules. Use arrows to move around the visual. … Read More

Power BI Theme JSON tricks
Data Visualization Data Visualization Examples DAX

Power BI Theme JSON tricks

Andrzej Leszkiewicz September 29, 2022

I love Power BI community for the inspiration it gives. Today after reading this LinkedIn post by Jan Schroeven I realized that if Power BI … Read More

Shape Map
Data Modeling DAX

Shape Map

Andrzej Leszkiewicz July 24, 2021

Why the map on the left is bad? Try to find Rhode Island or Delaware. Small states are almost invisible, large states are taking too … Read More

choropleth mapgood and bad chartsmaps

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