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New York Public Library Digital Collection in Power BI

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Some time ago I saw news that the New York Public Library has published its digital collection on its website and as a dataset you could download and explore. So I downloaded it and started to play with it. But as fate had it, I didn't finish the project.

The week before last, I was in New York City for a set of business meetings and I found myself thinking of that data. Since I first downloaded the data, I had also written an Image Viewer visual for Power BI that allows you to view web images in Power BI reports.  So while watching some soccer today I took another crack at finishing my report.

Click through to see an interactive version of the report.

[caption id="attachment_615" align="alignnone" width="850"]See the NYPL digital archive in an interactive Power BI report See the NYPL digital archive in an interactive Power BI report[/caption]

 

You can download the Power BI desktop file.

You can view the entire Digital Archive on the NYPL website.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 18, 2016
    Awesome.7 million items, 55 columns, 83 MB pbix.
    • Anonymous
      June 23, 2016
      The comment has been removed
  • Anonymous
    June 19, 2016
    Does the Chiclet Slicer of this report degrade performance ?The count of Items of the Chiclet slicer is over 1 millions.
  • Anonymous
    June 19, 2016
    Awesome digital Archive for Power BI :-)