1. Thomas “Tom” Martens
Using Charticulator

2. Using charticulator – create no-code custom Power BI visuals
Charticulator ( 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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5. Who I am Data Visualization Power BI DataViz What is Charticulator Some examples

6. About me Projects Expertise Industries
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Design and implementation of analytical solutions based on the MSFT Data Platform
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Specialization in analytical architectures, data modeling, DAX and data visualization
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8. 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

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

10. 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.

11. Charticulator – things to keep in mind

12. Charticulator – things to keep in mind

13. Charticulator – make some sketches

14. 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

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

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

17. Ressources https://charticulator.com/docs/getting-started.html

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20+ year of experience designing analytical solutions using the MSFT data platform
Tom Martens
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