Data Visualization

Reading Time: 1 minute Charticulator is the first item that I mention in my recent Power BI Best of 2018 in Data Visualization post. It’s an exciting new tool from Microsoft Research to quickly build …

(2019-Jan-28) When you work with maps using ArcGIS visual in Power BI, you always have a feeling that it is a tool within another tool. O...

The Temple of DAX is in 3D. Check out this new game from Phil Seamark where we are able to navigate a maze in 3D using DAX expressions.

Until recently, AppSource offered only Power BI visuals that had no cost associated with them. In order to promote visuals containing advanced features and support a funding model for their development, we’re excited to announce that Power BI custom visuals with additional purchases is now available in AppSource!

(2019-Jan-14) Dynamic maps with dynamic visualization usually attract my attention, especially when I look at the satellite images of vari...

(2019-Jan-06) In the past, I used to always rely on shapefiles crafted by others to create my map visualizations in Microsoft Power platfor...

(2018-Dec-31) Back in July of 2018, Ontario provincial government of Canada decided to decrease the number of Toronto city wards from 47 t...

Update: Check out the latest report here including coverage worldwide coverage, and drill down to United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Austrlia. Now offered as a paid report. Get a report to support DataChant. Microsoft offers partners to introduce their consulting services through AppSource (For exmaple, you can find here the services which are related to Power BI …

Power BI is not so much a data visualization tool as it is an end-to-end business intelligence platform that ends with visualizing data. Marco Russo approached this well when he explained the differences between a more robust model-based tool and a narrowly scoped report-based tool. While visualizing data in Power BI may sometimes be a bit…

Ok, finally it is done! This is a side project that I have been undertaking on and off for the past 2-3 months, after getting inspired by Andy Kriebel’s (t | b) Tableau project – Visual Vocab…

It has been a while since I written a blog post, even my ten years old daughter started teasing saying “Motionless blog”, so decided to get back to blogging with a…

Sassenheim, 5 december 2018 Here’s a small undocumented feature I found out when playing around with Power BI. You can change the width of the bars on your bar charts by changing the Inner padding of …

2 tips for visualizations in Power BI Dashboard. In Power BI service (PBIS) there are reports. But there are also dashboards. Dashboards are sites to pin key visuals. (1) Pin layered visuals to the da…

Theme options in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have been available for a while now. They give your content a consistent set of fonts, colours and effects. Microsoft has identified this feature was badly…

Continuing the series on “translating” Tableau to Power BI, let’s consider Tableau’s Viz in Tooltip. The versatile Viz in Tooltip allows authors to embed content from one or…

At PASS Summit, I presented a session called “Do Your Data Visualizations Need a Makeover?”. In my session I explained how we often set ourselves up for failure when conducting explanat…

The Mapbox Visual for Power BI plugin allows businesses to organize and visualize data and answer critical questions to improve operations.

Candlestick chart for stock data analysis in Power BI Desktop Power BI Desktop contains a wide range of custom visualizations which helps to represent and analysis of the data with extensive formattin…

I was chatting to my wife the other day discussing all the things we want to do next year. It has long been a pain in the butt to get a high level (big picture) view of your Outlook diary to see wh…

In the recent webinar Using SVG Images in Power BI, I showcased dynamic SVG measures displayed in the Table and Matrix visuals. Both of those visuals are limited to displaying images in a small gri…

This is a companion article to my SQL Saturday Johannesburg, SQL Saturday Durban, Power BI World Tour, and SQL Saturday Oregon session: Power BI Design Tips for the Aesthetically Challenged. Below …

Power BI now includes eight built-in themes in addition to the countless JSON variations that you could import. If you are interested in the hex color values in order to use them in Power BI or els…

We are pleased to announce Beta release of powerbi-visuals-tools v3. This Beta release brings a lot of new features for Custom Visuals development experience. With new Typescript v3 and ES6 modules support, users are able to integrate modern versions of all popular libraries like D3 V5 or others. ...

One thing I often get asked is “How do I create good looking Power BI Reports?”. This is a very good question and unfortunately the answer is not straight forward. I like to think of the visual a…

Recently, a client wanted to display pictures in Power BI using images saved in a database, but the image data was stored using a varbinary (max) data type column. Power BI can only display images if …

In my last article, Power BI Desktop Interactive chord diagrams, we underscored that Microsoft Power BI desktop has a rich set of customized visualization features. These visualizations can help to produce convert data to information in an efficient manner to an easy to understand format. We can freely download them from Microsoft AppSource In this […]

Starting today, POLITICO Europe is using Power BI as the data visualization technology powering its new Elections hub. Thanks to Power BI, readers can interact with the latest information about the expected results of the upcoming European Parliament elections.

I was recently consulting at a customer and I was looking to better understand if there was a way to disable the exporting of Underlying data, but whilst investigating this I came across the format…