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(2018-Feb-10) A few days ago Microsoft provided another update for its desktop version of the Power BI data analytical tool - https://powe...

“Baseball is 90% mental, and the other half is physical.” – Yogi Berra You just have to love Yogi Berra quotes like this. We all pretty much know what he’s talking about, even if his math is not spot on. It’s a restatement of the Pareto Principle, the 80/20 rule! It applies to just about …

Charts help you visualize numeric data in a graphical format but the problem is there are just too many types of charts to choose from. This diagram will help you pick the right chart for your data…

If you missed part one of ‘Power BI Custom Visuals – my top picks’, which was basically a love letter to the OK Viz team, check it out now. So this is the second part of my top pi…

Over the years, I have participated in my fair share of Power BI contests and for most of them, I bugged a lot of you for votes (so that I can go to the next round). Thanks to your love and support…

Here’s five tips to get you started

Creating Effective Dashboards

My effort to liberate data from spreadsheets

Data Visualization, Data Mining and Tableau

A waiting simulator to take out some of the guesswork.

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

By: Ryan Baumann

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!

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

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

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...

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)...

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

Avoiding equidistant HSV colors

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

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

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

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