Posts filed under Custom Visuals

Customized Bar Chart Using a Matrix Visual + Conditional Formatting?!

Video by: Reid Havens & Gustaw Dudek

Learn how to create a customized bar chart (styled) visual with formatted totals using a native matrix visual in Power BI. This technique will leverage conditional formatting and DAX to reveal the hidden gems of the matrix visual!

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Gustaw Dudek works as Head of Business Intelligence at the Polish Company (Enterium). He has multiple years of experience in the field of data analytics and business intelligence. In addition he's one of the resident Enterprise DNA Experts, having created multiple showcase reports for various EDNA contests. Despite of designing most of showcase reports in dark-mode, Gustaw is a huge advocate of IBCS chart standards and really enjoys exploring both the art and science of report design.

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(Livestream Replay) Introduction to the PlotyJS Custom visual - with Kerry Kolosko

Kerry will walk us through the amazing PlotlyJS custom visual! PlotlyJS is another custom visual to create your own viz designs akin to Charticulator, Deneb and PBIVIZEdit.

Plotly.js visual by Akvelon combines Plotly.js, react-chart-editor and Power BI together! This tool gives users the ability to create several types of visuals, including simple charts such as scatter charts to a variety of complex charts, such as 3D charts without code. Its JSON templating feature makes designs shareable and reusable.

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Kerry Kolosko is a data visualization consultant hailing from Adelaide, South Australia. With several years experience in a variety of roles across a diverse range of industries, along with a background in psychology and a passion for the arts, Kerry brings a considered and creative edge to BI and data visualization. Also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and an avid blogger, she shares her designs and design tips at her website (link below).

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Posted on August 12, 2022 and filed under Custom Visuals, Livestreams, External Tools.

Creating a Heatmap Chart Combo Using Deneb - with Daniel Marsh-Patrick

Daniel Marsh-Patrick joins me once again to walk through creating an awesome Heatmap and chart combo visual using the Deneb bespoke visual creator he developed for Power B!

Deneb is a Power BI visual that exposes these languages and lets you bind data from your model to them. We'll spend some time exploring the tool, showing you how to get started, and creating some simple examples.

If you like the visual please leave a review on AppSource as it helps support Daniel and the development of Deneb!

GUEST BIO 👤

Daniel Marsh-Patrick joins me once again to walk through creating an awesome Heatmap and chart combo visual using the Deneb bespoke visual creator he developed for Power B!

Deneb is a Power BI visual that exposes these languages and lets you bind data from your model to them. We'll spend some time exploring the tool, showing you how to get started, and creating some simple examples.

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Posted on March 8, 2022 and filed under Custom Visuals, External Tools.

Creating a Bullet Chart Custom Visual Using Deneb for Power BI

Learn how to create an (IBCS style) Bullet Chart custom visual using the Deneb Bespoke Visual Creator, created by Daniel Marsh-Patrick. Plus see some enterprise alternatives to creating your own bullet chart when we explore the AppSource store and other pre-built custom visualizations.

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Vega and Vega-Lite are "visualization grammars" developed by the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab. They use a declarative, JSON-based format and this can also be used to build a range of bespoke visual designs with significantly less effort than coding from scratch. Deneb is a Power BI visual (currently in public preview) that exposes these languages and lets you bind data from your model to them.

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Posted on November 23, 2021 and filed under Custom Visuals, Livestreams, External Tools.