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Category: DataViz

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…

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Published September 23, 2023
Categorized as DataViz, Deneb, How To's

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…

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Published June 17, 2023
Categorized as DataViz, Musings

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…

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Published March 25, 2023
Categorized as DataViz, Power BI

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…

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Published May 25, 2022
Categorized as DataViz, Deneb, Musings

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

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

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…

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Published October 3, 2021
Categorized as Power BI, SVG

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

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