Category: Analytics

Analytics

Best Practices to prevent GetGroupsAsAdmin API timeout

This blog post describes new changes in GetGroupsAsAdmin API to help administrators deal with timeout issues. Source: PowerBI

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When the Cost of a Mortgage is a Multiple of the Original Loan

In early 2021, the average rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage was under three percent. According to Freddie Mac, the average rate for the past week was 7.23%. That’s…

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Turn a static SVG into an interactive one, with Flourish

It’s straightforward to share a static SVG online, but maybe you want tooltips or for elements to highlight when you hover over them. Flourish has a new template to provide…

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✚ How I Made That: Network Diagrams of All the Household Types

With visualization, there’s a lot of filtering and aggregation so that it’s easier to see general patterns. But lately I’ve been more curious about what we can see from visualizing…

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Heads up: Changes to Excel workbook support in Power BI workspaces

We are announcing the deprecation of some features for Excel workbooks in Power BI workspaces. This can impact organizations and users who use these capabilities. This blog outlines the changes,…

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On-premises data gateway August 2023 release

We are happy to announce that we have just released the August 2023 update for the on-premises data gateway (version 3000.182.4). Source: PowerBI

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Infinity abstractions

Infinity is an abstraction of endlessness, which seems to suggest that it cannot be measured with finite units or occur in the real world. With a fun visual project, Dea…

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Renting vs. Owning a Home, by State

Among households in the United States, 68% are owned and 32% are rented, based on estimates from the American Community Survey in 2021. That breakdown isn’t uniform across the country…

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✚ Visualization Integration

Welcome to The Process, where we look closer at how the charts get made. This is issue #253. I’m Nathan Yau. Visualization tools have gotten better over the years, and…

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Explorable explanation for matrix transformations

Instead of using a bunch of equations to memorize, Yi Zhe Ang visually explains matrix transformations to provide some intuition behind the math. Make it to the end so that…