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EXPLORATIONS IN DATA STORYTELLING WITH POWER BI

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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…

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Published April 22, 2022
Categorized as Creative, DataViz, Deneb, Experimentation, Musings

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…

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Published March 4, 2022
Categorized as DataViz, Deneb, Experimentation

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…

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Published January 9, 2022
Categorized as Deneb

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…

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Published January 6, 2022
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, Deneb, Experimentation, Vega-Lite

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)…

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Published November 7, 2021
Categorized as Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

Line interpolation

Slope Graphs

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…

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Published September 12, 2021
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, Deneb, Vega-Lite

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…

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Published August 3, 2021
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, Deneb, How To's

Conditional KPI Cards with Deneb

I’d written a piece recently on exploring the Deneb custom visual for Power BI. In that post I touched on KPI Style visuals. I hadn’t seen much in the way…

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Published July 15, 2021
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, DataViz, Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

Heatmap with marginal bars

Another visual I explored through a Makeover Monday challenge. To create the chart I installed the latest version of Deneb, dragged the measures I needed into the fields pane. In…

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Published July 4, 2021
Categorized as Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

Area between two lines

A graph I explored through a Makeover Monday challenge. It didn’t make the final design but I thought I’d write it up for another time. Area fill is sometimes used…

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Published July 3, 2021
Categorized as Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

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