Custom visuals provide a further extension to Power BI’s already awesome visual palette, and there are some incredibly useful and beautiful visuals out there. You can also install visuals directly from files you build yourself or built by others.

While you should ideally be able to trust that custom visuals are improving your ability to tell your data story, it’s often worth knowing exactly what these can and can’t do with respect to your data so that you can make informed decisions about which ones to use.

In this session, we’ll discuss considerations when selecting custom visuals for your reports, potential pitfalls to look out for when evaluating them (including a demonstration of a “black hat” custom visual), and how to manage usage policies for custom visuals by your users at an enterprise level.