Pixar is the gold-standard in storytelling. With their 17 feature films, they’ve redefined how to create animated worlds and compelling characters. What if you could know the secrets of Pixar’s storytelling success? Now you can. Pixar announced recently that they would team up with Khan Acade

When designing your reports in Power BI Desktop you properly spent a lot of time making sure your visualizations is aligned and at least for some of them making sure they have the same size. So far…

The techniques used here are seriously awesome. The opportunities are really unlimited once you understand the steps required to make this happen.   To confirm what I mean by making visuals dynamic, in this example what we want to be able to do is dynamically view information over different time per...

In this module you will learn how to use the Table Sorter Power BI Custom Visual.  The Table Sorter allows you to rapidly re-sort and rank values by within a table. Module 46 – Table Sorter Downloa…

Asking the right business intelligence questions is a must-do for a successful BI strategy. Read here what to ask for actionable insights!

Horizon graphs are an intriguing but initially confusing way of looking at time series. Once you get familiar with the layout, you can simply think of it as a more space-efficient way of rendering …

Frank Coleman explains how to get results from data visualization and the infrastructure, skills, and tools necessary to create value.

Spent some time experimenting with the excellent “Synoptic Panel by OKViz” custom visualisation and came up with the idea of finding a different way to visualise the costs associated with a companies organisation structure. Organisation Chart & Associated Salaries and Costs Report  Image 1: Report showing Total Salaries and Costs for a fictitious organisation.  The Organisation Chart diagram in … Continue reading "Power BI – Visualisation – Org Chart"

Hello Everybody!   Let me introduce you today the Ultimate Waterfall Chart, a Custom Visual by Dataviz.boutique, soon available in the gallery. Let’s have a more detailed look on my first example I have prepared. Its not a final dashboard, it just has the charts or features on it I want to explain. ...

Over the past 3 years, I have collected data at the US County Level.  In this dataset, I have over 100 columns of data for every county in the United States ( 3,100 counties).  This includes data from the US Census, Center for Disease Control, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and presidential electio...

Welcome to the website for the 'Improving data visualisation for the public sector' project.

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For me, Stephen Few has always been the guru of Data visualisations. Recently, while I was reading one of his paper, I came across most talked Bullet Chart and Highlighting a…

Being an analyst with modern visualization technology is fun and enriching. Who doesn’t enjoy a stunning visual with useful and easily consumable insights? The reality is: even the most thoughtful authors have blind spots. Why? Because authors have significant amount of background knowledge that is ...

Visualizing your data needs some strategic thinking. Learn more about the most common data visualization types and when to use them or not.

Colors are important to making things look good, whether it's the clothes you wear or the presentation you give at work. But not everyone instinctively knows that orange and blue is a perfect combination. If you can't trust your own judgement, understand and rely on the basics of color theory to always pick the right colors.

We have a very special new member to the custom visuals gallery: the Dual KPI. Dual KPI efficiently visualizes two measures over time. It shows their trend based on a joint timeline, while absolute values may use different scales. The reason this visualization is special is because we use it at Microsoft in executive dashboards to monitor usage and user satisfaction for each product, or when an executive wants to keep an eye on two KPIs at the same time (for example Profit and Market share or Sales and Profit).

NOTE: the DAX presented in this blog post is written in my locale (nl-BE). This means that semicolons are used in the functions and lists instead of commas. Also, we use the comma as the decimal seperator. 0.95 (in the US) is 0,95 in my locale. A couple of well placed search and replaces should fix

In this module you will learn how to use the Synoptic Panel Power BI Custom Visual.  The Synoptic Panel is really one of the more impressive visuals available. This visual allows you to take an ima…

In this module you will learn how to use the Sankey Power BI Custom Visual.  The Sankey is a type of diagram that visualizes the flow of data between a source and destination. Module 28 – Sankey Do…

In this module you will learn how to use the Box and Whiskers (Jan Pieter) Power BI Custom Visual.  This is the first of two Box and Whiskers visuals that we will cover. The Box and Whiskers chart …