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Improving the user experience of Power BI visuals through conditional formatting, dynamic titles, and custom reference lines is now significantly easier, thanks to visual calculations. This article walks you through what they are, how they work, and why they can simplify your report development workflow.

In this tutorial, we’ll create a dynamic visual in Power BI that mimics the behavior of flow charts from Google Analytics only this time, it shows how total budgets flow into departments and then into individual teams.

Looking to upgrade your report interactivity with a beautiful yet functional date picker slicer? In this guide, you'll learn how to design a Power BI day-level slicer without any custom visuals or complicated hacks, using only native features.

If you’re building Power BI reports for HR teams or working with any hierarchical data, an organizational chart can help visualize relationships across different levels of a company. In this guide, you’ll learn how to create a fully interactive org chart using only native visuals in Power BI - specifically, the Decomposition Tree.

Quadrant charts are powerful tools to categorize and evaluate entities based on two key metrics. But until recently, creating them in Power BI required workarounds. Thanks to recent updates, you can now build dynamic, visually distinct quadrant charts natively complete with colored sections and flexible interaction. This guide walks you through every step to build a quadrant chart that's clean, intuitive, and fully interactive.

Styling visuals consistently in Power BI just got easier and smarter. If you're tired of manually tweaking formatting for every visual, Style Presets are your new best friend. You probably already know about presets from tables and matrix visuals. But now, with the March 2024 update, you can define your own style presets for any visual type - saving time and ensuring design consistency across your reports.

With the March 2025 update, Power BI introduced powerful enhancements to the Card visual, opening up new ways to build interactive, visually rich, and dynamic dashboards. In this walkthrough, we’ll build an employee overview card system, complete with search, images, and conditional formatting. The best part? No workarounds or hacks, just native features.

If you’ve ever wanted to take more control over vertical lines in Power BI visuals - to clearly separate data by quarter or emphasize key groups - this tutorial will show you how to do it using a clever trick with error bars and transparent series.

Have you ever wanted to show a chart in Power BI only when a specific item is selected in another visual? For example, display detailed metrics only when a region or employee is selected? Let's see ways to achieve it.

Power BI offers solid visual formatting options - but sometimes you want more. What if you could add glow, gradients, or cinematic effects to your visuals? It turns out you can - with a creative workaround using dummy measures, shaded areas, and SVG backgrounds. This tutorial walks you through every step to create stunning visuals like these.

Switching between different visuals in Power BI is usually done with bookmarks. But bookmarks can become complex fast - especially when maintaining a growing report.

You’ve probably used ChatGPT to write DAX, clean M code, or brainstorm visuals - but did you know you can embed ChatGPT directly into Power BI through Power Query? This guide walks you through exactly how to connect Power BI to OpenAI’s API, send prompts, and dynamically get responses from ChatGPT - enabling real AI-powered transformations.

Creating successful Power BI projects isn’t just about technical skills. It’s about understanding the business, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring your reports deliver value. Over the years, I’ve developed 5 golden rules to guide every project from start to finish. These rules aren’t just about building reports - they’re about creating solutions that truly make an impact.

You’ve probably seen a status tracker when ordering something online - those visuals that tell you what’s done and what’s still in progress. Simple, clean, and easy to follow, right? These trackers can work wonders in so many scenarios – purchase orders, sales funnels, recruitment processes, and more. Now, let’s take that idea and apply it to something like tracking job applicants in a recruitment process. A quick look, and you know exactly where everyone stands. That’s exactly what I’m going to show you how to build - step by step. Let’s dive in.

When you want to guide a user’s attention to specific time ranges - for example, high-performing months or outlier periods - simply using bold colors or annotations might not be enough. A cleaner and more integrated solution is to use highlighted date ranges directly inside your visuals.

Looking to save space and boost interactivity in your Power BI dashboards? Flip cards are a great way to display additional KPIs or contextual information without cluttering your layout. This guide shows you how to create flippable card visuals using only built-in Power BI functionality - no custom visuals or code required.

Power BI just got more powerful for spatial analysis. With the addition of the Path layer to the Azure Map visual, you can now animate lines over time - perfect for logistics, transport tracking, or storytelling with movement data.

When collaborating in Power BI, it's essential to ensure that sensitive data does not end up in the wrong hands. Microsoft offers a powerful governance tool for this purpose: Microsoft Purview. Through its Compliance Center, organizations can apply sensitivity labels to control access, sharing, and usage of data - both inside and outside Power BI.

Map visuals are a great way to provide spatial context in Power BI reports. But wouldn't it be even more powerful if users could select a location and instantly filter all other locations within a specific distance?

Power BI is a powerful tool but sometimes the most helpful features are hidden in plain sight. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, here are 10 Power BI tricks that can make your workflow faster, visuals cleaner, and reports smarter.