In almost a decade of building Power BI reports, a common blind spot I still see from colleagues regards data point limits in core visuals — largely unnoticed until someone…
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Smoothed Line Faux-Pax’s (and Other Things UI/UX Can’t Teach You About Data Visualisation)
→ The explanation → Jump to the Point Power BI development is a relatively straight forward process when managed by one individual start to finish. But when the development process…
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Cool report design tips with the updated Image visual
November 2025 Power BI update brings new settings for the image visual. Previously, selecting the image visual opened up file explorer to drop a PNG or JPEG on the report…
Thoughts on Plotly Studio – Early Access
Originally meant to be a short LinkedIn post but exceeded the word limit! Written unassisted by yours truly 🙂 A few weeks back I was kindly invited to give Plotly…
Timeseries smoothing
Quite often when exploring data within Power BI, we might want to visualise timeseries data, only to be met with an unsightly jagged line: We might be tempted to smooth…
Quick Tip – Showing incomplete months
What can cause more heart palpitations than a line chart that shows a sudden drop-off? Well, quite a few things… …but if you are like me and you’ve been given…
Embedding Charts from Web
As far as custom visualisations go for Power BI, the HTML Content visual is one of the most versatile. Demonstrated uses of the visual have been: WSS Schools provides a…
Fixed axis width and truncated labels in Deneb
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…
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…