In almost a decade of building Power BI reports, a common blind spot I still see from colleagues regards data point limits in core visuals — largely unnoticed until someone…
Category: Vega-Lite
Formatting Locale, Values and Tooltips in Deneb
When building a Deneb custom visual for a client I came across a scenario whereby the currency within the visual showed dollars in Bing browsers but British pounds in other…
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…
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…
Exploring Deneb for Power BI
In my short career doing data visualization with Power BI, I have always desired the flexibility to do more with my visuals. So when I came across a demo for…