Data Visualization

The use of color in a data visualization plays a crucial role in telling a story. It is tempting, especially as a beginner in the data…

I know that’s a truly awful title for a blog post, but it was a way for me to combine musicals and Power BI, and I wasn’t going to pass it up!

A business user came to me asking “how can I get a vertical line on Line Chart in Power BI like my Excel report?”. I was like, “It’s straightforward. We…

Create and share color palettes for your UI, and measure the accessibility of any color combination.

Report Page tooltips is a really cool feature in Power BI that was incorporated in the Power BI. I've tried to replicate this in a few other reporting tools but they don't have an out-of-the-box way of handling this, so I had to use JavaScript. With Power BI, you can create report page tooltips in a few simple steps.

Last year I went to our CMO Chris Capossela’s talk called “What’s Great Data in Microsoft”. In this talk, he listed five of the most important characteristics of good data: self-describe, fresh, forward thinking, inclusive, and adopted. The last one – adopted – is what he emphasized the most, and he challenged us to think harder about turning data into business actions.

I do a number of Power BI workshops, were over a few days I guide people through the features of Power BI, what it is good at, what its limitations are, and after a training exercise on a basic dat…

Let’s say you want to add conditional formatting to a card visual in a Power BI report. I often use (and recommend) the standard KPI visual and the Power KPI custom visual as powerful alterna…

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Earlier this month, Susie Lu and I released Viz Palette, a tool to help data visualization designers evaluate and improve their palettes…

Focus on finding or displaying contrasting points, and some visual methods are more helpful than others. A guide.

SEEK Laws of Attraction is an Interactive Microsite where you can discover what attracts a candidate to a business and what they really want.

Avoiding equidistant HSV colors

A handy guide and library of different data visualization techniques, tools, and a learning resource for data visualization.

I do mine in Photoshop, but you can probably do it in free apps like Gimp. Basically the steps I follow are: 1. Create a "rough” layout of the visuals I want to include in a given page, allowing for spaces where I am going to include images or effects (boxes with drop-shadow or bevel or whatever)...

In the words of mighty Julius Caesar, “Divide and conquer”, and data is no different. We can break down any complex problem into buckets which forges a path to purposefully resolve it. In this example, the KPI Breakdown Scorecard looks at a complex global enterprise and boils it down to six summary...

Choosing the right chart type is a confusing task. There are just too many numbers of variables affecting the choice of charts.

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QlikSense-Themepark - A Qlik Sense extension that integrates over 80 color palettes and themes to get the most out of your data and dashboards.

Anyone who remembers the original Power BI Custom Visual Gallery may recall seeing a visual called the Hexbin Scatterplot. I received some good news earlier, and it is now available on AppSource!

By: Ryan Baumann

High performance, custom map visuals. Make heatmaps, circles, and clusters using big location data.