Hi Reader, I'm currently on the west coast visiting my brother (he's near Vancouver BC... beautiful!) but you still get a How To post from me. This time it's about how to color your pie chart value labels so they are the same color as your pie slices.
Power BI doesn't make it straightforward, so you kind of have to poke around under the hood to find out where the option is to make it happen. How to custom color value labels on a Pie Chart:
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Power BI Crash Course in Kansas City!
This November, I'm headed back to the American Evaluation Association annual conference to teach a bunch of lovely evaluators how to get started with Power BI. This will be my 4th year straight teaching this at AEA, and it gets more entertaining every year. The photo below is me teaching after AEA underestimated how many people would sign up (it basically sells out every year) and had to move us to a much larger room). If you're an evaluator going to Kansas City for the conference and need an easy way to get into Power BI, give my workshop a try. I'll take you from complete newbie to knowing how to build a simple (but good looking and useful) dashboard in under 3 hours. You (and your evaluator friends) can ALSO sign up for notifications on a little mini-site I've made for the conference... it's at https://traversdata.com/aea2025/
Teaching at AEA Portland in 2024:
Teaching at AEA in Portland in 2024!
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