Makeover Monday: Distance Traveled by Turkey Vultures (Power BI Edition)

My goal was to recreate my Tableau viz from week 4 in Power BI. Here are ten thoughts about the process:

1. I had to install a custom chart type in order to create the heat map.
2. The heat map did not allow me to have year across the top and months down the side.
3. I had no control over the colors in the heat map.
4. I had to create a separate column for each of the years in the data set so that they were each individual measures that I could then use in the rows. That took way too long!
5. I could not create a distance per bird calculation like I did in Tableau that could then be used in the heat map; I went with total distance instead.
6. I could not connect the dots on the map to show the paths for each bird.
7. I could not make the dots really small on the map nor could I color the dots by the bird name.
8. I love how PBI automatically resizes to the screen. The viz I created is about 1300x900 in PBI, yet I can embed it as 800x600 and it rescales perfectly. This is fantastic!
9. I love the pixel perfect layout; it's super easy to get everything just right.
10. Mapping options are limited and you can't use a custom map (that I could see) so I had to match the dashboard background to the map background as close as I could.