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: Core Visuals
Power BI Core Visuals Info, How To’s and Hacks
Smoothed Line Faux-Pax’s (and Other Things UI/UX Can’t Teach You About Data Visualisation)
→ The explanation → Jump to the Point Power BI development is a relatively straight forward process when managed by one individual start to finish. But when the development process…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
KPI Cards with Core Matrix Visual
I came across a Power BI report in development that had 127 visuals (with 107 of them being KPI Cards) on a page. It took a while to load (between…