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Microsoft Adds New Power BI Visualization Support
By A.R. Guess / October 26, 2015 / 0 Comments
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Blair Hanley Frank reports in InfoWorld, “One of the challenges that business intelligence software users
face is generating the right sort of visualizations for the data they have. That’s why Microsoft announced
support for custom visualizations across its Power BI service Monday. Developers can now use tools
provided by the company on Github to create .pbviz files that can then be imported directly into Power
BI’s Web interface for use in analyzing data. (Microsoft will also be making that functionality available to
the Power BI Desktop client next week.)”
Frank continues, “Users who don’t want to build or buy bespoke visuals can also pick from ones
submitted by community members to a new Power BI Gallery site. Microsoft is hosting that site so
people can more easily find and share custom visualizations with the world. Right now, there are a slew
of options for users to choose from, including an animated fish tank with fish that resize based on the
data source they’re fed.”
Frank goes on, “Because those visualizations are all built using the same framework, they work similarly
to native graphs and charts that come built into Power BI. When users click on a section of a chart, all of
the other visualizations on a page will narrow down what they’re showing to highlight what just got
selected. Microsoft will be reviewing all of the submissions in its gallery, Technical Fellow Amir Netz said
in an interview. It won’t be going over them with a fine-toothed comb, just looking hard enough to make
sure that they work and aren’t hiding malicious code.”
Read more here.
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