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Improve the Visual Appeal of Your Reports: Tips and Best Practices

This repository contains presentation and material files used at the PowerBi Days event of 29 February 2020 in Dakar, for the session of the same title.

The presentation is organized as following:

  1. Present your reports in a meaningful and relevant way

    1. Think of the message rather than the graphics
      • Audience: Who will be your report consumers?
      • Metrics: What to analyse and how to measure it?
      • Presentation: how to present the data after choosing the best visuals?
    2. Design Process
      • Define
      • Mock-Up
      • Build
      • Share
  2. Avoid data overload

  3. Design user-friendly reports

    1. Choose a color palette
    2. Apply Color Harmony Rule
    3. Color Palette Tools
    4. Don't go too far with the visuals
    5. Appropriate use of visuals
    6. Chose the best visuals for your metrics
    7. Contextual presentation: interactions between visuals
      • Cross filtering
      • Highlights
      • Disable interactions
      • Drillthrough filters
      • Tooltip
  4. Best practices

    1. Draft a wireframe
    2. Chose colors in a consistent and meaningful way
    3. Improve the formatting of visuals
      • Format the title so that it stands out and is easy to read
      • Format data colors
      • Use labels
    4. Data presentation best practices
    5. Facilitate navigation in the report

Data sources & Report files


Primary Authors

  • Elhadji Malang Diedhiou
    For the past five years Elhadji Malang has been helping businesses to increase efficiency, using Microsoft collaboration softwares. He is passionate in learning and sharing. What drives him is the belief that we rise by lifting others. Elhadji is also a Data Enthusiast who can convert cups of coffee into code 👩🏾‍💻.
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