Building Power BI Custom Visual With Daniel Marsh-Patrick

Join our Microsoft Power BI - UK User Group for our monthly webinar in association with Onyx Data (onyxdata.co.uk). This month we are excited to announce our host Leon Gordon will be introducing Microsoft Data Platform MVP Daniel Marsh-Patrick.

Power BI's visuals are intuitive, highly-polished and look great. They serve many use-cases, but there are those who want to customise further. There are options to go beyond this and some are more involved and complicated than others.

Power BI has inbuilt R and Python visuals that let users write code to produce bespoke visuals inside the application. What if we used this idea to bring a new kind of custom visual to Power BI that could use the concept of a visualisation 'grammar' to build them instead?

In this session we will explore the concept of such a tool, and how we can use it to produce bespoke visuals in Power BI, starting with taking the data we want to work with and using a structural approach to quickly prototype and build a visual as we explore it.

During his 17 year 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 visualisation 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.