Awesome Power BI!

A collection of awesome Power BI frameworks, libraries, tools, resources, and software. This project is envisioned, designed and maintained by Akvelon volunteer development team. If You would like Akvelon to develop a Power BI dashboard or custom visual, please, contact me via rustem.mustafin [at] akvelon.com or twitter: @Rulikkk or check out visuals we've developed.

Inspired by awesome, awesome-dotnet, awesome-nodejs, frontend-dev-bookmarks.

Contributions are always welcome!

Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and wouldn't be possible without you! The goal is to build a categorized community-driven collection of very well-known resources.

Contents

• General
  • Apps
  • Official Pages
• Development
  • Custom Visuals Development
  • Utils
  • Other Development Resources
• Visuals
  • Visuals Developed by Akvelon
  • Power BI in AppSource
• Courses
• Communities
• Tutorials

General

Apps

• Power BI Web App
• Power BI Desktop
• Power BI iOS App
• Power BI Android App
• Power BI Windows 10 App — Includes mixed reality capabilities for HoloLens!

Official Pages

• Power BI Homepage — The official homepage of Power BI by Microsoft.
• Power BI User Documentation — The official Power BI user documentation by Microsoft.
• Power BI Youtube Channel — The official Power BI Youtube channel.
• Power BI Twitter — Power BI official twitter.

Development

Custom Visuals Development

• Power BI Visuals — A step by step tutorial of developing your first PowerBI visual by Microsoft.

Utils

Power BI utils are set of tools that allow developer of Power BI visual to easily implement most common capabilities of visualizations.

• DataViewUtils (npm) — provides set of tools to parse DataView object;
• ChartUtils (npm) — helps to create chart axes and drawing labels;
• ColorUtils (npm) — manages color manipulations;
• TooltipUtils (npm) — simplifies usage of the Tooltip API;
• TypeUtils (npm) — extends the basic types of Power BI custom visuals;
• InteractivityUtils (npm) — helps to implement cross-selection and cross-filtering;
• FormattingUtils (npm) — provides functionality to format values;
• SVGUtils (npm) — simplifies SVG manipulations;
• TestUtils (npm) — provides set of mocks and fakes in order to simplify creating unit tests for custom visuals.

Other Development Resources

• Power BI for Developers Overview — Answer to "What can developers do with Power BI?" question and a good starting point for developing with Power BI.
• Power BI and R — Video-tutorial about Power BI and R, including R Scripts and R Visuals.
• Power BI C# — .NET developer community for Power BI.
• Power BI Javascript — JavaScript library for embedding Power BI into your apps.

Visuals

Visuals Developed by Akvelon

• Hierarchy Chart by Akvelon — This Power BI add-on is perfect for ranking different departments, jobs, and employees who make up an organization. It can also be used to show family history and visualize genealogy information. If your data can be visualized in a tree structure, the Hierarchy Chart can display it in an easy to read format.
• Custom Calendar by Akvelon — Akvelon’s Custom Calendar for Power BI is the best way to view and display daily data from any source.
• KPI Chart by Akvelon — KPI Chart by Akvelon is a single visualization for illustrating and efficiently analyzing the correlation between two measures and it combines a line chart and a column chart with the same X-axis. Column and line charts show representation of the distribution of numerical data. Additionally, KPI Chart by Akvelon allows showing static and dynamic background KPI regions that can characterize, for example, the level of success before reaching the target.
• Bubble Chart by Akvelon (source) — Bubble Chart by Akvelon provides efficient way to visualize your data that has one numeric dimension and one or two categories. This chart is simplified version of Scatter chart with tightly packed bubbles - this way you can show more categories in a given space. Additionally, Bubble chart allows creating groups of bubbles by providing additional second category field bucket.

Power BI in AppSource

• Power BI Visuals in AppSource — Microsoft's marketplace for Power BI visuals.
• Power BI Dashboards in AppSource — Collection of dashboards, integrated with specific applications and services.

Courses

• Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI — Learn from the Power BI product team at Microsoft with a series of short, lecture-based videos, complete with demos, quizzes, and hands-on labs.
• Microsoft Power BI - A Complete Introduction — Learn how to use Microsoft's Power BI Tools, including Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, and PowerBI Developer.
• Power BI Training — A 5-minute hands-on video-introduction to Power BI.

Communities

• Power BI User Group (PUG) — A user-led, user-driven community of 37,000 Power BI users.
• Power BI Community — Connect, learn and discuss with business intelligence experts and peers.
• RADACAD Blog — Blog about various Power BI features and use-cases.

Tutorials

This section contains tutorials about using Power BI. If You are looking for development resources and tutorials, please head to development section.

• Getting started - Microsoft Power BI Guided Learning
• Power BI Tips and Tricks — A large collection of articles about Power BI, DAX queries, visuals, etc.
• Guy in a Cube — Tips & tricks, training, and roundups for Power BI and more!