Thomas “Tom” Martens Using Charticulator

Using charticulator – create no-code custom Power BI visuals Charticulator (https://charticulator.com/) a Microsoft research project, enables you to create amazing custom visuals for Power BI without writing any line of code. Charticulator allows you to focus on the data without the need to split your attention between the design and a programming language. This demo packed session focus on the design process and the creation of selected charts. All data used during this session will be available via a GitHub repo with a detailed explanation of how to recreate the examples.

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Who I am Data Visualization Power BI DataViz What is Charticulator Some examples

About me Projects Expertise Industries Lead Expert Diploma Business Administration (FH) - Controlling Projects Leading reinsurer Major bank International logistics specialist Financial service provider Energy supplier, trading and logistics Expertise Economic scientist with focus on controlling Design and implementation of analytical solutions based on the MSFT Data Platform Technical expertise, e.g. in the rollout of Power BI centered solutions in companies, based on cloud-only, on- premises, or hybrid architectures Specialization in analytical architectures, data modeling, DAX and data visualization Industries

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Data Visualization – made simple A Data Visualization is simply this: a mapping of data to aesthetics (color, shape, size) of geometric objects (points, lines, bars) Hadley Wickham: ggplot2: elegant graphics

Power BI DataViz Power BI provides a large set of different visuals:

Charticulator (charticulator.com) Interactive Chart Creation Charticulator enables you to create bespoke and reusable chart layouts without writing any code. Infinite Design Possibilities Charticulator enables you to compose a wide range of visual representations.

Charticulator – things to keep in mind

Charticulator – things to keep in mind

Charticulator – make some sketches

Charticulators – some learning Resize the chart and plot area before you start using your data The usage of a categorical y-axis is very beneficial  Consider using DAX to add missing data to your model and to shape your data WEEKNUM(‘t’[date] , 21)  returns the ISO-Weeknum

Some Charticulator examples A Calender Visual A Line Chart A Stacked Column Chart

Github repository https://github.com/tomatminceddata/Charticulator This github repo will become initially filled by 3rd of November, 2019

Ressources https://charticulator.com/docs/getting-started.html https://donghaoren.org/publications/infovis18-charticulator.pdf

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Thank you! 20+ year of experience designing analytical solutions using the MSFT data platform Tom Martens Lead Expert b.telligent Data platform MVP /tommartens68 @tommartens68