#WOW2024 Week 12 – HTML/CSS in Power BI visuals
My version of WOW2024 Week 12 contact cards report created using only core visuals. The introduction of the challenge says “This week’s challenge uses a … Read More
Category: Data Visualization
Colors in Data Visualization: 200+ Years Ago and Today
Playfair’s charts, from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century utilized single-color hand-engraved copperplate printing with the following hand-staining … Read More
The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios
There are many excellent data visualization books that help create better charts. However, data visualization professionals, including Power BI developers, often create dashboards (or “reports” … Read More
IBCS: how standardization streamlines understanding
💁♂️Question: I have found that many struggle to completely understand the meaning of an IBCS visual with so much “busy-ness” with labels and arrows It’s … Read More
How am I discovering new Power BI data visualization possibilities?
➡ I experiment and play with Power BI.➡ I follow people who experiment and play with Power BI.➡ When I see an interesting know-how I … Read More
Practical Charts: The Essential Guide to Creating Clear, Compelling Charts for Reports and Presentations
Nick Desbarats’s Practical Charts is an amazing and really practical book that will help you make good charts. Extremely high-quality content on high-quality (heavy!) paper, … Read More
Understanding IBCS
Many people are excited to see my IBCS-styled Power BI data visualizations. They look cool! However, not everyone understands why some columns are solid black, … Read More
Why is storytelling (not) essential for effective data visualization?
There are explanatory and exploratory data visualizations. One tells a story and therefore needs a story, while the other helps to find a story or … Read More
Which Chart Type is Better? A Dangerous DataViz Pitfall.
I’ve just (almost) fallen into a dangerous data visualization pitfall. It was a usual LinkedIn discussion of a data visualization experiment. I realize that the … Read More