It’s really exciting to see the first round of entries into the Power BI Best Visuals Contest, which has been running for about two weeks and wraps up on October 1. The first people’s choice award winner is Daniele Perilli from Rome who submitted a nice horizontal bullet chart. The contest is a catalyst to get the community developing custom visuals for Power BI using Java Script libraries and an open development environment. What a great way to get the community involved and to fast track onward development of this great product! See the complete list of entries and more contest information here. Check back to this post for contest updates.
October 6th UPDATE
The second and third People’s Choice Awards go to:
“Enlighten” for the Power BI Aquarium
and to fredrikheden for the Breakdown Trees visual. This is by far my favorite because it’s essentially the decomposition tree from ProClarity and PerformancePoint.
The entries:
Bullet Chart
Daniele Perilli, SQL BI
People’s Choice Award
This style of bullet graph is a good choice for visualizing multiple related values on a common axis scale. Stephen Few promotes the use of this as a simple, clean and comprehensive way to present important metrics in a context that reduces clutter and alerts the reader to take action.
Power BI Aquarium
Submitted by Enlighten
This was demonstrated in James Phillips’ keynote at the Cortana Analytics Workshop. This may not be the most scientific approach but it is a fun way to get aggregated metrics to the viewer in a fun and interesting way. The fish, with different sizes and colors, swim around in random patterns. Imagine this dashboard on a large monitor in a reception area, software development floor or desktop support hall; displaying average wait times, bug backlogs or calls handled.
Card With States
Submitted by Daniele Perilli, SQL BI
KPI indicator with status, deviation and history
Submitted by Fredrik Heden
After seeing Datazen demonstrations, people have asked when Datazen and Power BI will share visuals. Now, I guess we know. These visuals were inspired by Datazen KPI tiles.
Calendar Visual
Submitted by Andy Cross
Visualize One Percentage Value with Circles
Submitted by ahoiin
Voronoi Map
Submitted by chriscaruso
Stack/Stream Chart
Submitted by chriscaruso
Infographic; Easy graphical representations
Submitted by Andy Cross
Labeled Histogram
Submitted by dominikcyg
Aster Chart
Posted by the product team as an example entry
Breakdown Trees
by fredrikheden
Fisheye selector for displaying any long list of items
by srinipratapa
Reblogged this on The “BEE I” For Everyone Micro Blog ….
That aquarium is awesome!