D3 and Power BI - Reusable Custom Visuals for Everyone

[LukaszPawlowski-MS]

Power BI just enabled custom visualizations. We're a SaaS service for business users to bring together data from any data source created by Microsoft. Wanted to share what we're doing, listen to your thoughts, and I hope spark some inspiration.

You can easily plug in your D3 visualizations into Power BI's data stack that handles all the data queries for you. You write you visual once and then you can use it for any data in Power BI, including data from SaaS services like Salesforce, enterprise sources like SQL or Oracle, cloud big data sources like Spark, or real-time application data. It enables you to easily have multiple visuals on a single page, cross highlight, filter, brush and slice. You can event send your custom visual to others so they can use your visual in new and novel ways, without needing to know how to code.

We've made a huge bet on D3 and are eager to both share what’s possible today and to see how we can plug back into the community. We're pretty serious about our OSS projects - we open sourced our visualization stack under MIT License. It's a general purpose visualization library you can use to build re-usable visualizations.

I'd like to share with you what Power BI is, how easy it is to create visuals for Power BI, and walk you through our community driven gallery of custom visuals for Power BI. I also wanted to take time to hear your thoughts and see what's important to the broader D3 community.

I'm super excited to join unconf and meet you all!

Check out these links, I hope they spark your imagination:
Custom visuals in action (video)
Community visuals gallery
Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals playground
Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals (MIT license)
Power BI

[Osamanu]

Want to create custom table in pbi, with a conditional cell background color.