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…
Category: DataViz
Drop the Drop Shadows!
*WARNING* This article contains images that may be potential vestibular and photosensitivity risk. Drop shadows should be used with caution in UI/UX design. When overused or poorly implemented, drop shadows can…
KPI trend indicators on Core Visuals
With the February and March 2023 Desktop releases comes more features enabling us to enhance our KPI visualisations out of the box. This article talks specifically to the DAX function…
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…
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)…
KPI Cards with Core Matrix Visual
I came across a Power BI report in development that had 127 visuals (with 107 of them being KPI Cards) on a page. It took a while to load (between…
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…