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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
Line interpolation
Makeover Monday again! and this time I’m creating a slope graph. Yes, I could achieve this with the core visualisation, but I wouldn’t have as much control as I desired…
Faceted Charts with Deneb
Another creation from a Makeover Monday challenge using Deneb custom visual for Power BI. The original visualisation by Visual Capitalist can be found here. I thought I’d make a slight…