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Overcoming Potential Power BI Shape Map Rendering Issues | DataVeld
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Data and analytics with David Eldersveld. Overcoming Potential Power BI Shape Map Rendering Issues. September 1, 2016. In Kasper de Jonge’s great blog post “Use any map with Power BI”. He recommends a convenient tool called mapshaper. Mapshaper is a free web application created by Matthew Bloch. A few weeks ago, I noticed a handful of questions on the Power BI Community. One forum user said that it “looks like something Picasso would have drawn”. What went wrong, and how can this be fixed? It is not dire...
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Power BI for All Ages | DataVeld
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Data and analytics with David Eldersveld. Power BI for All Ages. October 28, 2016. Who says Power BI can’t be fun for all ages? I recently built a variation of the animal “See ‘n Say” toy for one of my kids and submitted it to the Data Stories Gallery. Click on an animal to hear the noise it makes. This report uses a simple custom “visual” to provide the audio sounds. Https:/ app.powerbi.com/view? Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). October 28, 2016.
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How To Add Your Own ArcGIS Reference Layers for Power BI | DataVeld
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Data and analytics with David Eldersveld. How To Add Your Own ArcGIS Reference Layers for Power BI. October 2, 2016. After progressing past my initial excitement. ArcGIS Maps for Power BI. I wanted to explore how to add my own custom layers to my maps. One of the great features of the ArcGIS visual is that you can add a reference layer. When adding a reference layer, you can use either the provided options or search among the thousands of layers on ArcGIS Online. For the Power BI. 8211; Use the latest ve...
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DataVeld | Data and analytics with David Eldersveld | Page 2
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Data and analytics with David Eldersveld. TopoJSON Map Files for Power BI Shape Map. About a month ago, I starting a collection of TopoJSON map files in response to a request on the Power BI Community forum. TopoJSON is D3’s preferred format, which is why Power BI users have suddenly found themselves learning more about it after the Shape Map was released. It is an optimized and lightweight cousin…. September 12, 2016. Overcoming Potential Power BI Shape Map Rendering Issues. September 1, 2016. Navigatin...
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What’s the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science? | DataVeld
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Data and analytics with David Eldersveld. What’s the Microsoft Professional Program in Data Science? October 5, 2016. This past spring, my colleague Robert Hutchison. And I were invited to be a part of a pilot program for the Microsoft Professional Program (MPP) in Data Science. Along with a few hundred other people from Microsoft and its partner organizations, we went through an internal track to provide initial feedback prior to the upcoming public launch of the program. You can register now. The progr...
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TopoJSON Map Files for Power BI Shape Map | DataVeld
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Data and analytics with David Eldersveld. TopoJSON Map Files for Power BI Shape Map. September 12, 2016. About a month ago, I starting a collection of TopoJSON map files in response to a request on the Power BI Community forum. Files from Shapefile, GeoJSON, and other formats into TopoJSON on their own. At this point, I have posted a modest collection of mostly US-centered files in a GitHub repository at https:/ github.com/deldersveld/topojson. Button at the top and select Save Link As. Denmark – c...
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Adding an HTML Tooltip in ArcGIS Maps for Power BI | DataVeld
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Data and analytics with David Eldersveld. Adding an HTML Tooltip in ArcGIS Maps for Power BI. October 4, 2016. With the preview launch of. ArcGIS Maps for Power BI. One unexpected improvement is the ability to enhance. Whether you would like to add an image, stylized text, a table, or a list; you have a few different options to customize a tooltip with HTML. While not all HTML functionality is available, you can still make a fairly engaging tooltip! How is this enhanced formatting accomplished? I then co...
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What’s Happening with “Quick Calc” in Power BI? | DataVeld
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Data and analytics with David Eldersveld. What’s Happening with “Quick Calc” in Power BI? October 14, 2016. In the Power BI Desktop update last May, Microsoft released “Quick Calc”. As a convenient feature that eliminates the need to write a custom DAX expression for a simple percent of total calculation. It was lauded at the time of release. It’s now been a few — wait…sorry, I’m not in the habit of doing basic calculations without DAX first. Ok, thanks for your patience. It’s now been. Months with no ch...
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Media | DataVeld
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Data and analytics with David Eldersveld. February 26, 2016. Blog article (by colleague Andy Lathrop): Built-in Analytics: Why R Matters to a SQL Server Professional. Video (by David Eldersveld): Operationalizing R for Predictive Analytics in SQL Server 2016. Blog article: First Impressions of Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight. Video: Basic Exploratory Analysis with Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight. 8220;Ship Sinker” demonstrating R Visual with I/O to local file and SQL Server. Power BI Best Visual Contest.
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