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Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:13:58 GMT

Facebook is one of the most important channels on social media for to many companies. But handle all the Data that Facebook give you by its API is very hard and sometimes confusing, but in this interactive report I will show you another way to see Facebook Insights using a clear and simple but strong design to help you see if your marketing efforts are going well. This is just one of another 7 reports I designed for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Youtube and Instagram on Power BI. But Colors, Shapes and Charts is just one part of this report, behind you will see Power query data modeling, DAX formulas, relationships etc. I hope you enjoy it.

Learn more about this report from the author by watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2z-hj3J_Bs

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Re: Facebook Power BI Report

tanckc — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:26:08 GMT

Hey Mykhael

great work - how do you get he rounded edges on your charts and cards?

Best - tanckc@hotmail.com

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 04:09:09 GMT

Hi tanckc,
The trick is very simple, those rounded squares are just that.... 1. Select shapes from the top panel. 2. Choose the square shape. 3. Select edit from the right panel (the icon is a little yellow pencil) 4. Go to General. 5. Change the rounded number. And that's it. You can change the line and shape color as well. Then you can overlay a chart or card to create the effect... If this answer helped you please give me a like and mark this answer as solution to help others. If you are interested in more tricks like this I invite you to check my posts here into the showcases, or you can email me and I can invite you in one of the conferences I speak about designing Power Bi reports. mmyers@redwaves.onmicrosoft.com
Best

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

chonox — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 22:39:42 GMT

Hi Mykhael, congrats on that spectacular FB report!

Iam assuming that you are not using the FB connector on the power bi sources, right? Are you using fb page stats and loading it to a Database? Is it possible using power bi connector to build a report similar to yours?

Thanks!

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 20:23:05 GMT

Hello chonox,

What you are assuming is correct!!! This particular report is connected directly to the Facebook API, and works LIVE, that means the information always change and get refreshed... The API send the data to my server in different tables (I use Azure) and then I use Power BI to manipulate and enhance my queries. About the Facebook connector you are talking about... In my experience is terrible, I don't think you can get a good report from that one... Maybe in the future they will improve it but right now it is very hard to use it.

Best

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

tanckc — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 21:23:04 GMT

great stuff

how do you get everything to line up/align so well....?

for example your page insights table page (in facebook demo)

Best

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 04:59:00 GMT

Hello tanckc,

I designed this report in November 2015, in that moment I used an horizontal line as reference, but now you can align easyly from the visual tools "Format". :)

Greetings

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

tanckc — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 23:01:14 GMT

Great stuff

2 questions:

1. How did you create the StoryTellers by city bar chart wih labels to the right of the bars? I tried using the legend, but my legend line items do not line up as well as yours to the bars in chart.

2. My tooltip on bar chart seems to only show 2 values. The [Vakue] field and only one of my items in the Axis list (the first item) Your tooltip shows items.

thoughts? Thanks again as always for your contributions and quick repsonses. Best

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:40:41 GMT

Hello tanckc,

aswering your questions:

1. Select your Horizontal Bar Chart, then go to "Edit" (the yellow pencil located into the right panel), expand Y-Axis, and change the "Position" from left to right.

2. Can you show me a screenshot to understand quite better what you are talking about?

Sorry to replied you until now. Best

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 15:37:28 GMT

Hi Mykhael, I was fortunate to attend your demonstration on the webinar 'How to Design Visually Stunning Reports in Power BI' on Tuesday. I must say I am impressed with your work! I noticed that you seemed to be using links within a report using objects in the left-hand menu -

if so; could you describe how you would relate the menu to the report-sheets?

Thanks and kudos to you! :smileyhappy:

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Sun, 01 May 2016 22:36:56 GMT

Hello Anonymous,

Right now there is not a way to use an object to link the report to another page... the left-hand menu you are talking about it's just a reference, to let you know the title of the data information, it's just a way to make the reports looks beutiful, BUT, nothing is impossible and we can emulate the effect and create a REAL left-hand menu that change the pages and relate them. But I am working on that. If I find out a very friendly way to make it real, I will let you know ASAP.

Until that happen check the report you saw in the webinar, as you can see is not a Slicer or anything that change the data or pages, is just a "reference" area.

http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-BI-Showcase/Social-Media-Monitoring-amp-Analytics-Report/td-p/32489

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Anonymous — Wed, 04 May 2016 12:17:17 GMT

Mykhael I notice in your reports you use a https://app.powerbi.com/view?r= type URL.

How do you get the r= querystring value?

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Thu, 05 May 2016 16:05:07 GMT

Hello Anonymous,

I cant see your Link, what are you talking about? can you send me a screenshot?

Best

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Thu, 05 May 2016 16:09:46 GMT

Hello chonox,

My apologize, I remember I told you the FB connector is not good enough to creat a good report around Facebook Insights. I was totally wrong, you can create a better report than this one using the FB connector, How do I know that?, because I am working right now using it, and I can tell you... It's AMAZING!!!, So I change my answer...

The answer is YES you can, and BETTER than this.

Best

Miguel

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

chonox — Thu, 05 May 2016 16:25:53 GMT

Hi Mykhael!

Thanks for the comment! So the FB connector got improved? Ive been trying to use it since long time ago and had several issues. Are you able to connect to a fan page and get the feed connection? I am using it right now, and keep getting an error "Facebook: An unknown error occurred" . How are you using it that works so well for you?

Thanks !!

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Thu, 05 May 2016 20:03:46 GMT

Hi chonox

The FB connector didn't improved, still the same, but we can get feed connection and everything, I suggest you to stay watching my post and tweets, very soon I will show all we can do using the FB connector, but if you really need assistence please contact me by Skype, and I can show you what I am doing. mmyers@redwaves.onmicrosoft.com Twitter: @myersmiguel

Greetings

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

chonox — Thu, 05 May 2016 20:40:27 GMT

Thanks Mykhael ! Can't wait for that post. Excellent work with Cheetos, looking forward building social media data for brands!

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

vanessa — Thu, 19 May 2016 13:54:50 GMT

I tried this. But I am not able to see any option for rounded number. I can only see X Position, Y Position, Width, Height.

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

Mykhael — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:41:44 GMT

Hi vanessa,

It is very easy, let me explain you.

1. Select the shape

2. Go to the Format Shape Panel (it's in your right)

3. Select "Line"

4. change the "Round Edges" Percentage

That's it...

I hope this helped you, anything else let me know OK?

Re: Facebook Power BI Report

SKM_Data — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:08:59 GMT

Hey Mykhael,

Congrats on a really beautiful report. I love the 1 to 20 navigation pane that you set up at the bottom of the report/dashboard and was wondering how you accomplished that. It's a really effective way to tell a story with data and I'd love to be able to use it too.

Thanks,

Sean