Most Power BI reports rely on the same core visuals. That’s completely fine. Bar charts, line charts and cards do a lot of heavy lifting. But with a few smart tweaks, you can often make your message much clearer.

Especially in environments where custom visuals are restricted or not allowed, it’s easy to feel limited. Still, the standard visual set offers more flexibility than most people realise.

In this fast-paced session, we’ll briefly explore six lesser-known chart types that build on the standard visuals, but show specific comparisons or distributions in a clearer way. These include bullet charts, dumbbell dot plots, butterfly charts, strip plots, Marimekko charts and slope charts.

We’ll look at when they work well and when they don’t, based on how our brain processes visual information and what the data is actually trying to say.

The audience decides what comes next. Through live voting, you’ll choose which visuals get a live demo in Power BI. Expect practical tips, clear examples and a healthy dose of common sense.

This session is mostly demo's. Based on a mentimeter vote we'll rank the visuals, and in order of priority I'll show and explain how to create these visuals. First public delivery: 11th of June 2025 at Power Up Conference in The Netherlands (audience at the session >100).