PBI Documentation

The idea

Not examples. Not screenshots. Templates.

A curated collection of production-ready Deneb visuals for Power BI, built to be reused, studied, and adapted.

Every template arrives fully formatted, with Power BI theme integration, configurable parameters, and extensive inline documentation.

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18 — Calendar heat map

Every day, in one frame#

Faceted twice over — quarters down the rows, their months across the columns — with every day a rounded cell on a continuous colour scale, so the handful that matter surface out of a quiet year. Shown here for the first two quarters; the template runs all four. Language, week-start day and the daily metric are all slicer-driven.

LanguageEnglish
Week startSunday
Daily metricValue
Daily volume · by quarter & month
Q1Q2JanuarySMTWTFSFebruarySMTWTFSMarchSMTWTFSAprilSMTWTFSMaySMTWTFSJuneSMTWTFS
04080120160200+

17 — Performance analysis

Performance Analyzer export#

Analysis of event duration and decomposition | Single Visual

Sales by Date by Channel

Parent Phase
Execution Task
Container Lifecycle
0ms Event
0ms0ms50ms50ms100ms100ms150ms150ms200ms200ms250ms250ms300ms300ms350ms350msVISUAL CONTAINER LIFECYCLEResolve Parameters3msQuery190msQuery GenerationQuery PendingExecute Semantic Query30msExecute DAX Query10msExecute Query7msSerialize RowsetParse Query Result14msRender160msData View TransformVisual UpdateVisual Update Async147ms
Lifecycle Duration
350ms
Model Impact
6%
DAX Impact
3%
Render Impact
45%
Wait Impact
46%
Event CategoryCountAvg (ms)Weight
Model1318.9%
DAX192.6%
Query Pending53042.6%
Render Visual35345.1%
Others130.9%

16 — Sunburst

Hierarchy in rings#

Two levels of category hierarchy radiate outward from a central total — parent segments in the inner ring, children in the outer. Proportion and hierarchy together, without nesting.

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Revenue by category · two levels
Sunburst chart Deneb template

15 — Financial waterfall

From revenue to profit#

A top-down waterfall walks from gross revenue through every cost line to net profit — EBITDA, depreciation, tax — each step anchored and labeled on a bridge chart.

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P&L bridge · revenue to net profit
Financial waterfall Deneb template

14 — Correlation matrix

Every pair, measured#

A symmetric correlation matrix encodes Pearson r in both color saturation and circle size — the strongest relationships emerge at a glance, without reading a single number.

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Pearson r · all pairs
Correlation matrix Deneb template

13 — Waterfall

Building to a total#

Suspended floating bars reveal how each category contributes positively or negatively to a running total — the go-to for budget-to-actual and income statement breakdowns.

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Contribution to net result
Waterfall chart Deneb template

12 — Area min/max

The range in full#

A shaded band stretches between daily minimum and maximum values, with the mean line cutting through the middle — seasonality, volatility, and trend in a single area chart.

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Daily range · min / avg / max
Area min/max Deneb template

11 — IBCS chart

The IBCS standard#

Three panels stacked vertically — variance %, variance amount, and actuals vs prior year — follow IBCS notation: lollipop variance dots, signed amount bars with triangle markers, and grouped column bars.

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Current Year
Previous Year
Positive Variance
Negative Variance
Variance Percent
0%+20%+8%+13%-5%+12%-20%-15%
Variance Amount
0 K+274 K€+116 K€+212 K€-78 K€+196 K€-430 K€-194 K€
Amount
0 M0.5 M1.0 M1.5 M2.0 M1.4M€1.6M€Product 11.5M€1.6M€Product 21.6M€1.9M€Product 31.6M€1.5M€Product 41.6M€1.8M€Product 52.2M€1.8M€Product 61.3M€1.1M€Product 7

10 — Variance analysis

Every delta#

Amount variance and percent variance rendered side by side — arrows anchor to the actual value, pointing left or right to signal direction. Diverging percent bars on the right complete the picture.

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Amount VarianceProductPercent Variance3.0 M3.0 M3.5 M3.5 M4.0 M4.0 M4.5 M4.5 M5.0 M5.0 M-30%-30%-20%-20%-10%-10%0%0%+10%+10%+20%+20%+30%+30%+0.8 MProduct 1+25.5%+0.3 MProduct 2-12.1%+0.2 MProduct 3+7.2%-0.3 MProduct 4+6.2%+0.5 MProduct 5-7.6%-1.1 MProduct 6+16.9%+0.1 MProduct 7-22.7%+0.3 MProduct 8+2.8%+0.6 MProduct 9+9.2%-0.5 MProduct 10+14.3%Positive VarianceNegative Variance

09 — Regression

The trend line#

Scatter points paired with an ordinary-least-squares regression line and R² annotation. The relationship between variables made legible, without a pivot table.

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Spend vs Revenue · R² = 0.86
075150225090180270360R² = 0.86

08 — Violin + box plot

Distribution in shape#

The violin traces the density of every observation; the inner box plot anchors median, quartiles, and whiskers. Skew, spread, and outliers surface without a single aggregation.

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Score distributions
10080604020Team ATeam B

07 — Quadrant chart

Four quadrants#

Classic BCG-style scatter, filtered by quadrant — each button sharpens focus so every point in a segment is visible without visual noise from the others.

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Stars ★Question Marks ?DogsCash Cows $

06 — 2-level column

Two levels, one column#

Category columns with clustered sub-category columns overlaid in front, each carrying its own data label — the whole and its parts on one axis.

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Revenue by region & line
1006244North865040South723836East583028West

05 — Linear gauges

Reading the zones#

Each measure reads against banded performance zones, with a slim pointer marking exactly where you land — units and thresholds in a single horizontal sweep.

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Operations · against zones
Throughput84 u/minQuality92 %Utilisation61 %

04 — Ring chart

Three rings#

Three concentric rings, each a share of 100% — nested KPIs that read at a glance, without a single legend cluttering the frame.

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Adoption78%
Engagement62%
Retention45%

03 — Heat map

The week, by the hour#

Sales by hour and weekday read as a single matrix, framed by marginal bar and column charts that sum each axis — the busy hours surface on their own.

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Sales · hour × weekday
Heat map Deneb template

02 — Bullet chart

One bar, every benchmark#

Compare actuals, targets, benchmarks, and qualitative performance bands within a single compact visual. Ideal for executive dashboards where space is limited but context matters.

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Performance vs target
Bullet chart Deneb template

01 — Space-saving bar

Top N, then Others#

Full-width bars rank your strongest categories; everything past the cut folds into a single Others bar. Drag the slider to choose how many stay in focus.

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Revenue by client · $K
Top N6
Aurum Co.
980
Soleil Ltd
845
Meridian
690
Calder & Vey
615
Vance Group
540
Orsino
470
Thorne
410
Bellwether
360
Others
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