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…
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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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…