“When shortcutting the design process, I think back to the natural world.” In my years of data visualisation consultancy, I am often asked “How do I choose the right visual?”.…
How to remove Copilot from Bing/Edge
If you are photosensitive, motion sensitive, or have AI fatigue, you might be desperately wanting to tone down the CoPilot neon colours, text animations, and attention-hogging prompts from your browser.…
Formatting Locale, Values and Tooltips in Deneb
When building a Deneb custom visual for a client I came across a scenario whereby the currency within the visual showed dollars in Bing browsers but British pounds in other…
Independent Scales with Deneb (Ring Chart)
A chart I created for a Workout Wednesday Challenge. The chart shows the number marriages by month and Australian State encoded by size as rings, and (given that each state…
Peak Geek
That’s it! I’ve done it! I’ve officially hit Peak Geek I cannot possibly imagine creating an image geekier than the one below: For those that need the explanation, the image…
Folding (Unpivot Data) with Vega-Lite & Deneb
Creating a bar chart with Deneb is relatively simple when using a category field and a measure. But what about when you have only measures? In this particular scenario, I…
Earworms and T-Shirts
I recently had an earworm “Shut Up and Dance with Me” reverberating in my brain whilst I was working and… going off in the the tangents that I do… drew…
Smoothed lines with Core Visuals vs. Deneb
July 2023 Power BI desktop update now has new line type option of “smooth”. This is the equivalent of of spline interpolation of cubic monotone. Other examples of interpolation are…
Drop the Drop Shadows!
*WARNING* This article contains images that may be potential vestibular and photosensitivity risk. Drop shadows should be used with caution in UI/UX design. When overused or poorly implemented, drop shadows can…
Adding sparklines to New Card Visual
The New Card Visual is out in preview for the June 2023 Power BI Desktop – and it’s absolutely fantastic. With this first drop of the Card Visual we can…