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…
Category: How To’s
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…
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…
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…
Visualise Filters Applied
Creating a DAX measure to notify filters have been applied to a report is helpful when there are hidden slicer or filter panels.
Custom path axis with Charticulator
If there is one stand-out feature of Charticulator… …it is the ease at which we can design data visualisations along custom path axes. If you’re into the technical details, there…
Convert to Shape
A PowerPoint Quick Trick I found myself needing to create some chart icons this week and I was without my trusty Adobe Illustrator. I instead brought out PowerPoint and began…
Quick Chart Makeover
I came across this Global Views on Abortion Report which showed the following graph: It was great to compare support for permitting abortion across different countries, but it was a…
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…
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)…