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Category: How To’s

Extracting dominant colours in Fabric Notebooks

This blog post and accompanying code are inspired by this article on Towards Data Science, which walks through extracting dominant image colours using Python. The challenge From a Nightgale Data…

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Published April 8, 2025
Categorized as Analysis, Fabric Notebooks, How To's

Lasagna Plots and Heatmaps with Core Scatter

A relatively new Power BI Desktop release comes with the ability to rotate markers on scatter plots… … some interesting use cases have arisen from this feature, but one such…

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Published March 8, 2025
Categorized as Core Visuals, How To's, Power BI

Overlapping histogram with distribution curve

Overlapping histograms with normal curve overlays are used to compare the distribution of a numerical variable across different groups such as male and female body mass. With this we can…

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Published August 7, 2024
Categorized as Core Visuals, How To's, Power BI

Radial Column chart

In a previous blog, I wrote about creating polar charts with Power BI Core visuals. This article continues that conversation and demonstrates how to create a radial column chart, with…

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Published June 7, 2024
Categorized as Core Visuals, How To's, Power BI

Polar and radial charts with Power BI Core Visuals

Aside from the pie and donut charts, there is not much in the way of polar plots in the Power BI core visual set. Polar plots are rarely used in…

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Published June 4, 2024
Categorized as Core Visuals, How To's, Power BI

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…

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Published December 23, 2023
Categorized as DataViz, Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

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

Adding sparklines to New Card Visual

The New Card Visual is out in preview for the June 2023 Power BI Desktop – and it’s absolutely fantastic. With this first drop of the Card Visual we can…

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Published June 13, 2023
Categorized as Core Visuals, How To's, Power BI, SVG

Measure-driven data labels

May 2023 Power BI Desktop brought the beginnings of measure-driven data labels. Currently available on bar and line charts, but not yet scatter charts. With measure-driven data labels you are…

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Published May 28, 2023
Categorized as Core Visuals, How To's

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 Core Visuals, DataViz, How To's, Power BI

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