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EXPLORATIONS IN DATA STORYTELLING WITH POWER BI

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Position with PureViz

This post is a continuation of my exploration of the latest updates on the PureViz custom visual for Power BI. In my previous post, I looked at colour fill and…

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Published April 11, 2022
Categorized as Creative, Experimentation, How To's, Infographic, PureViz

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

Faceted Charts with Deneb

Another creation from a Makeover Monday challenge using Deneb custom visual for Power BI. The original visualisation by Visual Capitalist can be found here. I thought I’d make a slight…

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Published August 3, 2021
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, Deneb, How To's

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…

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Published July 21, 2021
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, How To's, HTML Content Visual, SVG

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…

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Published July 15, 2021
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, DataViz, Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

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…

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Published July 4, 2021
Categorized as Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

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…

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Published July 3, 2021
Categorized as Deneb, How To's, Vega-Lite

Building a custom Gauge Table with HTML

A quick design for a very specific use case I wanted to visualise scores similar to the above in a way that was quick and easy for me to read…

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Published May 26, 2021
Categorized as Custom Visualisations, How To's, HTML Content Visual, SVG

A cheat’s guide to Power BI report design

Quick Power BI report design using PowerPoint. How I create a custom Colour Palette and Theme in 5 easy steps. When designing reports I look to an organisation’s style guide…

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Published April 18, 2021
Categorized as How To's

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