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Author: Kerry Kolosko

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Published October 17, 2025
Categorized as Musings

Power BI + Graphic Walker Online: A Tableau-like Interface for Vega-Lite

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If you’ve ever wanted the flexibility of Deneb but felt overwhelmed by its code-first approach, Graphic Walker Online could be a good bridge. Graphic Walker is posited as Tableau-style front…

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Published May 3, 2025
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, DataViz, Deneb

Extracting dominant colours in Fabric Notebooks

This blog post and accompanying code are inspired by this article on Towards Data Science, which walks through extracting dominant image colours using Python. The challenge From a Nightgale Data…

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Published April 8, 2025
Categorized as Analysis, Fabric Notebooks, How To's

Care with Proportional Data Bars

Power BI’s data bars in matrix visuals can be a helpful way to visualize numeric values quickly. However, they have limited formatting options that can impact how easily users interpret…

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Published April 7, 2025
Categorized as DataViz, SVG

Lasagna Plots and Heatmaps with Core Scatter

A relatively new Power BI Desktop release comes with the ability to rotate markers on scatter plots… … some interesting use cases have arisen from this feature, but one such…

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Published March 8, 2025
Categorized as Core Visuals, How To's, Power BI

Radial Column chart

In a previous blog, I wrote about creating polar charts with Power BI Core visuals. This article continues that conversation and demonstrates how to create a radial column chart, with…

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Published June 7, 2024
Categorized as Core Visuals, How To's, Power BI

Polar and radial charts with Power BI Core Visuals

Aside from the pie and donut charts, there is not much in the way of polar plots in the Power BI core visual set. Polar plots are rarely used in…

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Published June 4, 2024
Categorized as Core Visuals, How To's, Power BI

How do you choose the right visual? Turning to nature for dataviz inspo

data encodings

“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?”.…

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Published March 29, 2024
Categorized as Musings

How to remove Copilot from Bing/Edge

image of copilot taking up browser space

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.…

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Published February 15, 2024
Categorized as RandomTagged Accessibility

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…

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Published December 23, 2023
Categorized as DataViz, Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

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