My Musings

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    Gradient Maps in Power BI

    I’m still on a Power BI kick so this post will address gradient maps in Power BI. I’m still using the unemployment data. In situations like this, gradient colors in maps are a very useful way of depicting how events are shaping up throughout the country. Here’s the map I’m addressing today: The source of…

  • Impact of AI on layoffs

    The layoffs are still ongoing, and Oracle looks like to be the posterchild for bad behavior although management did say the layoffs were for creating additional money to spend for AI infrastructure. At least that is how I understood it. Here’s the link to the Times article titled “‘Everyone’s a line on a spreadsheet:’ Inside…

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    Dates in Power BI

    In my last post, I wrote about using the “programming aspect” of Power BI to bring in unemployment numbers for 50 states rather than I manually importing and then merging them. And I talked about using AI to do that “programming”. During that exercise, I actually learned some new stuff, although I don’t think I…

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    AI and Power BI

    I mentioned a few posts ago that I was working on a data visualization project with another person (a finance director) to maintain our technical skills. This post will not detail all the elements that I have worked on but will focus mainly on the use of AI to help build the Power BI visuals….

  • Temporary Reprieve

    This past week has been insane! I mean, what happened to people that we have reached such a crescendo of insanity? On Sunday, a tweet went out talking about how Tuesday was going to be “Power Plant day and Bridge day, all wrapped in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the…