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On Patterns and Textures

*WARNING* This article contains images that may be potential vestibular and photosensitivity risk. In playing with Deneb this last year I had great fun exploring pattern fill options. This was…

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Published May 25, 2022
Categorized as DataViz, Deneb, Musings

Power BI + Adobe = Magic

Adobe Illustrator has been a tool in my dashboard design kit for quite a while. I’ve used it predominately for creating report assets such as icons, headers and backgrounds. I’ve…

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Published April 22, 2022
Categorized as Creative, DataViz, Deneb, Experimentation, Musings

Position with PureViz

This post is a continuation of my exploration of the latest updates on the PureViz custom visual for Power BI. In my previous post, I looked at colour fill and…

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Published April 11, 2022
Categorized as Creative, Experimentation, How To's, Infographic, PureViz

Comics with PureViz

I recently discovered a new feature in PowerPoint – “Cartoon People”. It offers the ability to mix and match bodies, faces and expressions and looked quite a bit of fun.…

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Published April 2, 2022
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, Infographic, PureViz

Thinking about target bands

I’ve come across many charts like this in the wild. This one depicts utilisation and RAG status by month. They’re not bad charts, they serve a purpose, but they could…

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Published March 4, 2022
Categorized as DataViz, Deneb, Experimentation

Legend for a layered plot in Deneb

I came across this dataviz in my Twitter feed and it instantly drew my attention: My interest was in the aesthetics of the visual and not the subject matter. I…

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Published January 9, 2022
Categorized as Deneb

Images and custom shapes in Deneb

Over the past few months, I’ve had considerable fun exploring images and custom shapes with Deneb Custom visual for Power BI. I’ve finally gotten around to blogging about it. There…

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Published January 6, 2022
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, Deneb, Experimentation, Vega-Lite

Visualising 2021

2021 was an extraordinary year for me. I’m a woman of few words, so rather than write about it, I’d thought I’d illustrate it. The below image is deeply personal,…

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Published January 2, 2022
Categorized as Musings

Raincloud Plots with Deneb

Raincloud plots are a relatively recent and effective addition to the data visualisation toolkit comprising three parts: 1) distributions as density (half-violin plot); 2) summary statistics (box plot) and 3)…

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Published November 7, 2021
Categorized as Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

KPI Cards with Core Matrix Visual

I came across a Power BI report in development that had 127 visuals (with 107 of them being KPI Cards) on a page. It took a while to load (between…

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Published October 3, 2021
Categorized as Power BI, SVG

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