My Favorite Visual at the Power BI Portland UserGr...

Last month Ron Ellis G. the President of the Portland Power BI Usergroup decided to try a new component called "My favorite Visual". The idea is the user group members would take ~5 minutes out and show off their favorite Power BI visual.

This had the dual benefit of showing people what is new and cool in Power BI and make it easier for new and would-be presenters to get started.

Being braver than smart, last month I volunteered to show "My favorite Visual"; in getting ready for the user group meeting realized i still didn't know Power BI well enough to have a "favorite". That being the case i looked at the custom visuals at http://app.powerbi.com/visuals and noticed we updated or released 10 Custom Visuals last month at the Data Insights Summit.

1. SandDance (make sure and check out Ruth's post!)

Of those new custom Visuals three of them addressed things i had wanted to do in the fishing reports i had been playing with, namely:

1. Disply Pictures of the fish = Image Viewer

2. Constrain the range of the fish catch data by time =Time Brush

3. Constrain my reports to a single specis of Fish = Attribute Slicer

While i may not have started with a favorite Power BI Visual the fact these three solved my needs put them at the top of my list! The fact i was able to get them all working in a couple of minutes definitely sealed the deal.

The other favorite Visuals where:

Steve showed how to use the aquarium Visual to display sports scores:

Christine showed how to use a couple of Visuals to display HR data from SharePoint (The data was almost as interesting as the Visuals...Unfortunately since it was real data i had to blur it out in the image)