Power BI Desktop got another new feature in its November release. For visuals that contain too much detail, it is possible to turn on the Zoom Slider option. It allows you, without the need to create additional filters, to zoom the contents of the slider and gain a better insight into the displayed data. This option does not affect any trend lines that you may have added on the chart that we want to zoom.
When we use a Stacked Row or Stacked Column chart for visualization we can add data that displays the values of individual series within a group. How is it possible to see the total value (for all series)? In Excel, we used tricks to perform this, which I described in a post from May this year, and Power BI has recently got a new option which enables display of total values for stacked charts.
Power BI Smart Narratives represent a new feature that allows you to add automatically generated description, derived from one or more visuals, in which are shown business trends emerging from the report. Smart Narratives are automatically generated in English, but the text can be manually edited (translated) and formatted in the desired way. It is also possible to add new values to narratives based on a given formula.
Azure Maps is a new Power BI visual that enables the display of data on geospatial maps with greater accuracy of display, and as such are suitable for the development of Internet and mobile applications, as well as specific reports in which the exact location of the object is important. These maps are a much better choice when you have the exact location of the object you want to show on the map (latitude, longitude) …
Every manager’s dream is to have a big screen in front of him with a dashboard that provides information about (almost) everything that happens in his company. And can this work in real time? Yes, and this feature has been around since October 2019 for all Power BI Professional and Premium users who use DirectQuery to load the Data Model. Recently, some novelties are available that make this process even more efficient …