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…
Category: DataViz
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…
Microcharts and radial gauges
I’d written in a previous post about building a custom gauge table with HTML. This is an extension of that post with DAX for additional gauges or microcharts. Radial Gauge…
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…
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…
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…