Five ESSENTIAL ways to make your Bar Charts the best in Power BI.
Who fell asleep when they saw that this edition of People-Friendly Power BI was about Bar Charts? You can admit it, I won’t think less of you.
Bar Charts are the unsung heroes of the data visualization world. When you ask anyone what their fave type of chart is, “Bar Chart!” is never the answer.
However, we all use them, don’t we? Chances are, if you’ve visualized data for an annual report, a powerpoint, or a dashboard, you’ve most definitely made a bar chart.
This is because they are EASY to understand. Any audience can understand them. The bigger the bar, the higher the number it represents. Humans are *really* good at comparing the length of bars and it doesn’t matter if the human is a theoretical physis Nobel prize winner or a kid looking at a bar chart about halloween candy.
Bar charts, as easy as they are, aren’t perfect when we make one in Power BI.
This edition of People-Friendly Power BI is all about the ESSENTIAL changes you should make to Bar Charts when you make them in Power BI. Power BI makes garbage bar charts by default… you gotta tweak those bar charts into something your Power BI dashboard users are going to LOVE…
Read “Five ESSENTIAL ways to make your Bar Charts the best in Power BI” on TraversData.com
Fun and Data Visualization in Indianapolis
In October, I spent most of a week in Indianapolis at the American Evaluation Association conference. It was a blast.
I taught a 3 hr workshop about how to get started with Power BI to 45 evaluators. We built simple and effective evaluation survey report dashboards in that time, going right from never having opened the software to branding and sharing our dashboards. They were a great group! Lots of great questions.
I also presented about why traditional Data Literacy initiatives never work (and how data visualization can solve this). Gotta love when a room is completely packed to hear what you have to say!
I met SO many great people, and I’m horrible at remembering to take photos and selfies, so here’s a few of photos I *did* take and others took of me.
Let’s meet up at AEA Portland next year, and I’ll try to remember to take more photos, especially with those of you I talked and/or dined and/or drank with.