Amsterdam, NLUsing AI assistance to create Power BI custom visuals
Kurt BuhlerThis article is about a process to use AI tools like LLMs to create custom visuals in Power BI, and how this still requires deliberate thought, planning, and learning. Read more
Using visual calculations for conditional formatting
Marco Russo & Alberto FerrariVisual calculations are useful for performing calculations specific to a visual. Conditional formatting is a great example of this concept. In this article, we show how to easily implement conditional formatting through visual calculations. Read more
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Dialog boxes in custom visuals are broken in Power BI Desktop February 2025
Marco RussoAs one of the founders of OKVIZ—a company dedicated to producing custom visuals—I have been following the recent developments in Power BI Desktop with particular concern. This issue, however, extends beyond our company and affects many other organizations that rely… Read more
Account receivable aging in Power BI
This article describes an Accounts Receivable Aging report in Power BI, and shows how to simplify a business problem using existing modeling patterns. Read more
DAX Patterns
Week-related calculations
This pattern describes how to compute week-related calculations such as year-to-date same period last year and percentage growth using a week granularity This pattern does not rely on DAX built-in time intelligence functions All the measures refer to the fiscal… More on DAX Patterns
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Optimizing DAX, Second Edition
Optimizing DAX is the state-of-the-art book on optimizing DAX expressions in Power BI and Analysis Services semantic models.
Learn how to locate performance bottlenecks, read the query plan and performance metrics, rewrite the slower part of an expression, and measure the performance improvements. Read more