Author: Michel Dekker

Most charts will force you to summarize or categorize data before it is displayed. This can hide important details and may be misleading. The Strip Plot shows all your data observations in one go without hiding important details. It shows each data point on a single continuous scale.

Your excellent feedback allows us to continuously improve our visuals. Based on your feedback we just released version 2.3 with several exciting enhancements.

The color formatting of all visible objects can be managed now. This allows you to use the Strip Plot in dark mode, or any other preferred color scheme.

We also applied several changes to significantly improve the loading performance of the Strip Plot. You can now show up to 30,000 markers in a single visual.

And all our visuals continue to support the standard Power BI interface. We incorporate the same user experience as Microsoft in the default visuals. You can use the Strip Plot (and all our other visuals) with the latest features: On-object interaction, Subtitle, Divider, etc.

Don’t hesitate and try the Strip Plot now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource.

Years ago, Stacey Barr introduced us to the magic of Control Charts. Magic it is, because it allows everyone to split their temporal data in two: random noise and real signals. And we all are looking for real signals, and don’t want to be distracted by random noise.

In our last release of the Control Chart XmR we have added several new features to make it even easier to find real signals and ignore random noise in your data.

First, we added ZoomSlider support to the Control Chart XmR to make it easier to navigate through time.

We now also allow for multiple targets, so you can define more than just one target.

And finally, you can now review all the signals in a table when you view the Control Chart XmR in “focus mode”.

Don’t hesitate and try the new Control Chart XmR now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource. All features are available for free to evaluate this visual within Power BI Desktop.

Your incredible feedback allowed us to implement several exciting enhancements to the SMART KPI List.

Now you can extend the existing bar chart into a bullet graph by adding the qualitative ranges behind the bar.

Previously you had to choose between a bar chart and variance chart. Now you can show either or both at the same time.

You can also add additional columns to the visual to include more context. And all columns can be set to the exact right width by dragging the edges.

Don’t hesitate and try the SMART KPI List now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource. All features are available for free to evaluate this visual within Power BI Desktop.

Data visualisations play a fundamental role in answering an important data question:”How does result A compare to result B?”. Typical examples of these questions are:

• How does the sales of this month compare to the sales of last month?
• What is the difference between the number of documents processed this year compared to 2021?
• How does the number of planned-visitors compare to the number of unplanned-visitors at our locations?

Key in answering these kind of questions is clearly visualising the difference between the two results. This is the strength of the Dumbbell Bar Chart: showing both values and the difference between them.

In the latest version you’ll find the features you asked for: data labels and conditional formatting. All available in the familiar standard Power BI interface. No need to learn any new interface to configure these features.

Don’t hesitate and try the Dumbbell Bar Chart now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource. All features are available for free to evaluate this visual within Power BI Desktop.

EnterpriseDNA Reporting & Data Visualization Summit 2022

Later this month Enterprise DNA organises the Reporting & Data Visualization Summit 2022. Over 5 days, 25+ training sessions for everyone working with Power BI. And in this case it is really for EVERYONE, because you can join this event for FREE.

Register HERE for FREE now!

We are honoured to sponsor this event and conduct one of the training sessions. Join us on Tuesday, May 24th for our session “9½ Tips for awesome visualizations in Power BI“.

After two long years of attending all events virtually this month we finally could meet each other again. When we heard about the possibility to be part of the Dutch Power BI User Group event there was no doubt. We joined as a sponsor and enjoyed every minute of meeting all these Power BI users. Our colleague Michel had the honour to talk about his passion: effective data visualization in Power BI. Really excited to share his story with the audience, but also with anyone else who tries to get most out of their Power BI visualizations.

In case you could not join the event, here you can watch the video of our presentation. ½

The Gantt chart is an excellent tool to visualize your program and project schedules and task dependencies. The horizontal bars show for each task/activity the period between the start and end date (or time). Icons can be used to represent milestones: important moments within your project timeline.

The PowerGantt Chart allows you to review both tasks/activities and milestones right in your Power BI reports. The PowerGantt Chart supports unlimited number of task/activities, hierarchy levels and number of milestones.

Key features of the PowerGantt Chart are:

• Insight into your program and project schedules: high level overview at first and dive into details using the collapse/expand buttons. Zoom into specific periods using the dynamic zoom slider
• Highly customisable: Add or remove columns, change colors of bars based on your own criteria, and change the date granularity
• No need to learn a new interface. Configuration is the same as a standard Power BI Bar Chart. And of course, theme colors and settings are supported

Don’t hesitate and try the PowerGannt Chart now on your own project/program data by downloading it from the AppSource.

In the Microsoft Power BI Blog post of March 2022 we got the opportunity to share some exciting updates in our Strip for Power BI. Here you have our contribution to the Power BI Blog.

Most charts will force you to summarize or categorize data before it is displayed. This can hide important details and may be misleading. The Strip Plot shows all your data observations in one go without hiding important details. It shows each data point on a single continuous scale.

You gave us excellent feedback which allows us to further improve this visual. Based on your feedback we just released version 2 with several exciting enhancements.

You could already add numeric values, but now you can also use dates on the x-axis. The x-axis has also been enhanced with the optional Zoom-Slider.

Each visual in Power BI has three different panes: Fields, Format & Analytics. The Analytics pane allows you to add reference lines to your visual (like: fixed value, median, average, max, etc.) In version 2 you can use this functionality with the Strip Plot.

All functionality of the Strip Plot is available through the standard Power BI interface: NO need to learn any new interface.

Don’t hesitate and try the Strip Plot now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource.

In the Microsoft Power BI Blog post of February 2022 we got the opportunity to share some exciting updates in our Merged Bar Chart for Power BI. Microsoft has included this visual in the exclusive Editors Pick list. Here you have our contribution to the Power BI Blog.

On the surface the Merged Bar Chart has a lot of similarities with small multiples. The key difference is the way these charts allow you to compare values. The Merged Bar Chart focusses on comparing multiple measures (like EBITDA & Marketcap in the example below) within one specific categorical variable (here Industries of S&P 500 stocks).

Based on your excellent feedback we have added several exciting features to this visual:

• Conditional formatting: bars within a measure can change color (the example above shows the EBITDA/FTE in red when it concerns a negative revenue growth)
• Data Labels: besides the bar you can show the data label. You can even change the location of the labels.
• Partial highlighting: when your selection results in a partial match (in the example above this is the selection of Washington State) the partial highlight will display this with the highlighted color.

Do you want to compare multiple independent measures? Go Merged Bar Chart.

Try the Merged Bar Chart now by downloading it from the AppSource. All features are available for free to evaluate this visual within Power BI Desktop.

In the Microsoft Power BI Blog post of December 2021 we got the opportunity to share some exciting updates in our Shielded HTML Viewer. Here you have our contribution to the Power BI Blog.

All HTML rendered through the Shielded HTML Viewer is sanitised to keep your data safe. But sometimes our sanitation process is too strict. Based on valuable feedback from our users we concluded the use of images became a victim of this strict sanitation process. So, we added support for images to the Shielded HTML Viewer! But without the need for risky external links.

As of version 2.0 the Shielded HTML Viewer (in the image above used in the tooltip of a dumbbell chart) supports inline SVG and Data URL images. This way you can include any inline images in your Power BI reports and dashboards. Version 2.0 also includes support for the NAV-tag: now you can include HTML navigation menus to your reports. More information on the NAV-tag can be found here.

Furthermore, all functionality is available through the standard Power BI interface, so no need to learn a new interface.

Don’t hesitate and try the Shielded HTML Viewer now on your own data by downloading it from the AppSource. All features are available for free to evaluate the Shielded HTML Viewer within Power BI Desktop.