Description
Book SynopsisCreate stunning and complex visualizations using the amazing Charticulator custom visuals in Power BI.Charticulator offers users immense power to generate visuals and graphics. To a beginner, there are myriad settings and options that can be combined in what feels like an unlimited number of combinations, giving it the unfair label, the DAX of the charting world. This is not true. This book is your start-to-finish guide to using Charticulator, a custom visualization software that Microsoft integrated into Power BI Desktop so that Power BI users can create incredibly powerful, customized charts and graphs. You will learn the concepts that underpin the software, journeying through every building block of chart design, enabling you to combine these parts to create spectacular visuals that represent the story of your data. Unlike other custom Power BI visuals, Charticulator runs in a separate application window within Power BI with its own interface and requires a different set of int
Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction to Charticulator
Chapter 2 – Marks, Symbols & Lines
Chapter 3 – Binding Data
Chapter 4 – Using Symbols
Chapter 5 – 2D Region Plot Segments
Chapter 6 – Using Two Categorical Axes
Chapter 7 – Using Numerical Axes
Chapter 8 – Charticulator Expressions
Chapter 9 – Scales & Legends
Chapter 10 – Guides & Anchoring
Chapter 11 – Working with Multiple 2D Region Plot Segments
Chapter 12 – Horizontal & Vertical Line Scaffolds
Chapter 13 – Polar Scaffolds
Chapter 14 – Plotting Multiple Measures
Chapter 15 – Links & Data Linking
Chapter 16 – The Line Plot Segment
Chapter 17 – Templates & Nested Charts
Chapter 18 – Integrating with Power BI
Chapter 19 – Taking it to the Next Level
