I recently had a requirement to fix the width of the Y-Axis and Y-Axis labels for two separate charts. For one chart, the axis width would adjust when sliced based…
Author: admin
Overlapping histogram with distribution curve
Overlapping histograms with normal curve overlays are used to compare the distribution of a numerical variable across different groups such as male and female body mass. With this we can…
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…
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…
Measure-driven data labels
May 2023 Power BI Desktop brought the beginnings of measure-driven data labels. Currently available on bar and line charts, but not yet scatter charts. With measure-driven data labels you are…
Custom path axis with Charticulator
If there is one stand-out feature of Charticulator… …it is the ease at which we can design data visualisations along custom path axes. If you’re into the technical details, there…
Reversed Deviation Icicle Chart
A deviation icicle chart is an uncommon chart to show variance from a target or baseline value across time. There are a multitude of ways to show comparison to target…
Community Heroes
Personal reflections.