Infographic Designer Visual in Power BI

 

Infographic Designer Visuals in Power BI

Power BI offers great visuals by default,

The infographic designer visual is useful for presentations and to have a slicker report or dashboard. The infographic designer's visuals allow you to create eports with infographic icons like this one:

Or this one:

Requirements

Power BI Desktop installed.

Either SQL Server installed and the AdventureworksDW database installed or use other tables and other sources with similar information e.g. Excel.

I will use the AdventureworksDW2019, but you can use lower versions as well.

For the examples. I will use the product information and the standard cost columns from the DimProduct table of the AdventureworksDW database.

. This visual is not installed by default. T install it, in Visualizations, select the Get more visuals option.

You will see several visuals, most of which were created by Microsoft. You will see: advanced cards, timeline slicers, tornado charts, radar charts, histogram charts, and more. Choose the Infographic Designer.

Read the Overview to understand the visual and press the Download Sample button. This button will download a Power BI project with some interesting examples of this visual.

Open the project and check out of the pages of reports. The following images provide some ideas for the reports that you can do in Power BI with this visual.

  

Use the Infographic Designer Visuals in your Report

I will use using the dbo.DimProduct table for the report, or you can use a similar table.

click the Infographic Designer visual.

Include the EnglishProductName column and the StandardCost in the report.

  

Apply a filter to reduce the number of products in the chart. Apply a filter in the product name.

Select some product names: All-Purpose Bike, AWC Logo Cap, and Bike Wash – Dissolver.

In addition, in the report click the Edit mark icon.

Select a shape for the report.

Use the Infographic Designer Visuals – Shapes Available

There are several shapes available. Basic shapes like squares, circles, stars, crosses, etc.

                                                                 Biz & Tech Shapes

 

Use the Transportation category and  use the bikes because the Adventureworks products are bikes. There are several other categories and you can add your own custom shapes.

, you can use multiple units in the report.

Optionally press the Visual Settings icon to modify the colors of your shape.

Select a color for your chart. Instead of using column charts, we will use  bikes.

We can create our own shapes based on images..

Create Your Own Shapes

With the upload option, you can add your own shapes to the infographic designer.

Press the upload button.

Look for an SVG file (which is a  Scalable Vector Graphics and a web-friendly format).

If you do not have an SVG file, then look in Google for SVG for  the name of the shape.

Or use a converter site like convertio.co to convert a file from jpg to SVG.

In addition, you can convert png, or jpeg to SVG, and once converted you can download it.

Power BI offers great visuals by default, but, if these are not enough then, you can also go to the gallery and get new ones there or you can include those in a file.