Building Power BI Custom Visuals with Vega - Daniel Marsh-Patrick

Power BI has inbuilt R and Python functionality, which allows creators to write their own code using an embedded editor. This is a means of producing your own custom visuals if you know these languages, without the legwork of having to learn how to do web development.

Vega and Vega-Lite are "visualization grammars" developed by the University of Washington Interactive Data Lab. They use a declarative, JSON-based format and this can also be used to build a range of bespoke visual designs with significantly less effort than coding from scratch.

In this session we’ll introduce the concepts of these languages, and introduce a Power BI visual that gives you access to them so that you can create your own designs.

Bio

During his career across the UK and New Zealand, Daniel has been helping drive enterprise-wide solutions through process and software engineering; predominantly through Business Intelligence (BI), data visualization and software integration. He is extremely passionate about the Microsoft BI stack, particularly Power BI, and has been delivering Power BI solutions since 2014. He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, a contributor of free and open-source custom visuals to the Power BI Marketplace, a Power BI Community Super User and regularly presents and blogs on a variety of Power BI subjects.