Data Visualization with Microsoft Power BI

Part III. Risky Advanced Visuals

In this part, we will continue exploring advanced Power BI visuals but with a different approach. Here, we’ve gathered charts that might seem exciting at first glance but, in practice, could lead to failure. There’s a high risk that these visuals might be too complex and unclear for users without proper explanation.

In this part, there will be seven chapters, each dedicated to a specific type of visualization:

• Gauges

• Scatterplot

• Word cloud

• Decomposition tree

• AI-based visuals

• Radar and aster plot

• Chord diagram

Some chapters will be dedicated to a single visual, while others will explore multiple options. Unlike Parts I and II, we won’t provide detailed step-by-step guides for each visual because the settings for many of them are limited. We will explain the constraints and even offer alternatives to present the same data in a simpler and more understandable way using conventional visuals.

Throughout these chapters, there is quite a bit of criticism, but it comes from the perspective of creating business dashboards. All of these creative visuals can be effectively used in presentations, infographics, or data research by experienced analysts. However, if you leave managers alone with such reports, they might end up disappointed and confused. Amid complex figures, they might struggle to find insights.

In areas of potential risk, opportunities also emerge. In our practice, sometimes we take the foundation of a nonstandard chart idea and finalize it ...