Most websites that offer Nutrition Facts and Food data lookup functionality seem to offer a top down, food driven search function. First you select or search for a food and they return the nutrition facts for your selection. I was looking for the opposite and I couldn’t find it. Thanks to Power BI, I was able to build one in minutes, here’s how I did it…
Continue reading “Build a Nutritional Power BI Dashboard in a few minutes”We ❤ Power BI so much we created a custom visual
About a year ago (March 2020) We needed a line chart that can do the following:
- Allow the viewer of the report to change the Y axis scale on the fly
- Allow the X axis to be placed near the top of the chart
- Have the ability to invert the Y axis*
When we started, we didn’t want to reinvent the wheel, so we searched first but couldn’t find a chart on the App Source marketplace that could do all of these thing I listed above*. So we started creating our first custom Power BI Chart Visual: CHARTURO
Continue reading “We ❤ Power BI so much we created a custom visual”Power BI Line Chart with interactive log & linear scales
As an end-user of a Power BI report, a chart that looked great at first might look not so great once you start applying filters or using slicers. Very large values in the data might throw off the scales and now your line chart might be suddenly all squeezed at the top or the bottom. Does any of the above sound familiar?
EDIT: There is a newer version of this custom visual chart, which is now called CHARTURO and is published to the Power BI AppSource Marketplace, you can read about it here and get it from the Marketplace here
Usually it’s the report designer who has all the power, this article is about giving more power to Power BI end users…
End users’ ability to change the scale, appearance or formatting of that chart is limited. That’s why I started creating the Mi4 Line Chart Power BI custom visual that lets you switch scales on the fly, and eventually have more overall control of the visual without having to edit the report.
Continue reading “Power BI Line Chart with interactive log & linear scales”