Mar 23, 2022
Are you new to using Power BI*? The video below provides a small introduction to navigating bar charts and tables, To explore a Power BI report, it’s all about clicking on diagrams and choosing the various options to view the data in different ways! An earlier...
Mar 20, 2022
Extract of talk given on 17 February 2022 via Zoom Please tell me why Please please tell me now demanded Duran Duran whilst Annie Lennox pleaded with us to tell her Why. It was the 80s and 90s, and this sound could be heard in homes across the country. In the 80s that...
Mar 15, 2022
This example shows how easy it is to insert Wikipedia extracts into a Power BI report using the Wikimedia API. A slicer is created to hold the name of ships, an image of the relevant ship is pulled in from Wikimedia Commons, and an extract relating to the ship is...
Mar 13, 2022
Over 23,000 ships have been wrecked off the coast of Scotland. I was astounded when I discovered that figure as it’s far higher than I would have guessed. I quickly went from being astonished to being quite sombre thinking about how many lives would have been lost at...
Mar 6, 2022
#worldbookday2022 – I discovered last month that some illustrations for The Frog Prince, a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, are held by Aberdeen Archives, Museums and Galleries (AAGM). I came across the artwork whilst taking part in a wiki editathon....
Dec 14, 2021
‘Twas the 27th November, the day after Storm Arwen. We were in our homes huddled around our computer’s discussing the effects of the storm. But we couldn’t sitting around chatting all day as we had two days of hacking ahead of us at at Code the...
