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…
Category: Custom Visualisations
Power BI + Graphic Walker Online: A Tableau-like Interface for Vega-Lite
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Breaking the Rules
My latest Deneb creation breaks ALL THE RULES of Dataviz But. I like it! This is a visual I designed for myself. I’m fascinated with the human body and the…
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…