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You have probably been using the concept of the Waterfall chart to visualize a chain of positive and negative data intuitively, resulting in the final net value. But did you know that using the same concept, you can represent data in a bunch of different variations? This blog will cover 7 of these variations that […]

The most important indicators of the financial health and position of a company are the metrics that are tracked in financial statements such as Profit and Loss Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement, among others. Often, these statements are lengthy and are represented in tabular format. To make things easier for executives, we can […]

How often have you felt the need to focus on a specific range of information in the report, that is of more relevance to you? Or felt the need to exclude a range of information that is skewing the data, to see the impact of other information? A few ways to do this are to […]

Often, the story that you aim to tell your users with your Power BI dashboards comes down to the type of visualizations that you use (among a number of other things). While an ideal dashboard needs to convey information at a glance, the use of modern-day dashboarding tools has introduced more robust slice-and-dice options to […]

Dashboards provide business users with the key information they need at a single glance. They contain all the metrics and KPIs that need to be monitored to enable effective decision-making. When it comes to quick, actionable insights, dashboards are generally considered more effective than their elaborate counterparts – Reports. This is because, while reports span […]

Pie charts don’t get a lot of love among the experts these days although they continue to remain popular among users. They are held in such low regard that all of the luminaries outlined in a previous blog (“The Luminaries of Data Visualization: Who will stand the Test of Time?”) have spoken out against them. […]

Visualization is a huge topic with a pedigree that goes back decades. Within this topic are interests from fields ranging from medicine to geography to business. It is partly an art and partly a science. Visualizing data requires consideration of attractiveness, of how people comprehend information, of how they digest it, and how they use […]

The latest visual to be added to the xViz Visualization Suite is the Scatterplot/Bubble Visual. The xViz Scatter Visual provides a variety of features that are most requested by the Power BI Community. Some of the highlighted ones include – 9 quick start templates which include the Scatter version, Bubble version, and some following IBCS Standards as well! The Bubble […]

IBCS stands for International Business Communication Standard and defines applying proper conceptual, perceptual, and semantic design to visuals. Along with providing support for standard chart definition and strategic use case, the xViz Bubble/ Scatter also supports IBCS standard use case with dedicated quick-start templates. The IBCS templates deliver 2 important aspects of the IBCS standard […]

This blog is part of the Bubble/Scatter Blog Series.Starting with the new xViz Bullet chart, the Bubble/ Scatter chart also supports the prebuilt template option for a quick start. Ten of the most common use cases for the Bubble/ Scatter chart have been added to the templates, each prebuilt with the best possible layout and individual […]