Deneb: Declarative Visualization in Power BI

Back to School with Fabric VizDesign Hub! 📚🚀

We know it’s been a little quiet over the summer… but we’re kicking off September with something BIG.

Our next meetup features none other than Daniel Marsh-Patrick, the creator of Deneb! ✨

I recently got a private walkthrough, and wow—it’s not just a visual, it’s a whole new way to think about dataviz in Power BI. Daniel also has this rare gift for explaining things in a way that shifts your perspective. You’ll walk away seeing visualization differently, I promise.

📅 When: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | 12:00 PM CET
📍 Where: Online
🎤 Speaker: Daniel Marsh-Patrick, Microsoft Data Platform MVP
💡 Topic: Deneb - Declarative Visualization in Power BI

Bring your sandwich, grab a notebook, and get ready to learn how to create some seriously cool data viz stuff. See you there! 🙌

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Deneb: Declarative Visualization in Power BI

Deneb is a certified custom visual for Power BI that lets you create your bespoke visuals right inside Desktop using either the Vega or Vega-Lite visualization grammars. Visuals can be prototyped and iteratively developed using their declarative JSON-based languages, providing a ‘code-like’ experience where you are not constrained to a specific type of chart.

While this methodology is more in line with the built-in R & Python visuals, Deneb addresses several shortcomings with those approaches, particularly in terms of integration and deployment, by providing support for interactivity, publishing to web and mobile reports, and exporting to PDF, all while running anywhere a certified custom visual can.

In this session, we will provide a short introduction to the visual and highlight some of the key features.