This trellis chart displays food self-sufficiency rates for 47 Japanese prefectures in FY2019, arranged from highest to lowest across a 10-column grid. Each cell contains a satellite chart — a spiral visualization where one full revolution represents 100% self-sufficiency. The spiral uses color to indicate which century of value is being represented: orange for the first 0–100%, blue for 100–200%, and pink for 200–300%. A hollow dot marks the endpoint of the spiral. The percentage value and prefecture name are displayed in the center of each spiral. Hokkaido leads at 216%, followed by Akita-ken at 205% and Yamagata-ken at 145%. Most prefectures fall below 100%, indicating they produce less food than they consume. Tokyo-to has the lowest rate at 0%.

This week's #Wow2026 for #PowerBI is a Power BI remake of a previous Tableau challenge. We are making satellite charts to show percentages that exceed 100%.

Check it out: www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w16/

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Young magpies learn complex sentences just like humans Young magpies learn how to create complex calls in much the same way human children learn to turn sounds into words and words into sentences.

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The neighbourhoods where ADHD rates are skyrocketing ADHD diagnoses in adults have exploded across Australia since 2017. For the first time, we have the data that shows where it is — and isn't — happening.

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It's out?

When?

"I see you are kicking goals"

"that would make sense if I knew where my goals were... I'm just following my nose"

Day 14, Trade: Quick snapshot from Vienna (10th & 15th districts): we checked some apartments for sale in Gründerzeit architecture buildings. Even in this small, non-representative sample, there’s a clear pattern: 4th-floor units tend to come with slightly higher price tags. #30DayChartChallenge

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#WoW2026 #PowerBI

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I can get 50% - 80% of the way there...
So yeah, I guess I can't either.

Neppalli refused to say how much Uber was actually spending on tokens, but this is the beginning of organizations admitting that AI is a massive resource drain. With Anthropic moving all enterprise to API pricing we'll find out in the next few months if AI is really "worth it"

Lol. When I walk into an office that still has filing compactors ...

If I see one more "Excel is dead post"...

... I'll put down my phone and go potter in the garden...

Just realized it's been almost a year since my (non-)declaration of indie dataviz crisis truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis... — what do we all think a year on? Have things improved?

finally, the first week of #30daychartchallenge

this year I think I would not be able to keep making one plot by day, so things may get out of hand :/

note, there used to be this thing called CDs which we used to listen to music (feeling old)

Wireframes thats only have one chart per page and you are meant to press an arrow button to scroll through the next lot of charts...

It's hard coming on to a project you are not leading and asked to do a wireframe without having seen the data nor having been involved in the requirements gathering.
And harder developing from someone else's wireframe built in Adobe instead of Power BI.

Yes. I was once given a user persona from a UI/UXer for a Power BI project that actually captured the end users as "aged 40, married and very busy"

But these clash with dataviz principles when you apply them to the data bits: the actual charts, colour palettes specific for data communication, and yes, smoothing lines. So, to make a truly great dashboard, one has to know both and be able to separate where each set of principles fit 2/3

We've built a fuel tracker to watch the impact of the excise cut on prices -- and prices have come down much faster than the industry suggested they would www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The phenomena is real though, the drivers - various changes in behaviour and environment are reasonably confidently known.
The "biological science" of it however is fluff.
Podcasters making up the term "dopamine addiction" and "impacting my central nervous system" for example and the term flying.

:)

I went out last weekend to buy a mosquito zapper and citronella torches for someone who complained of being bitten in my yard. 'Tis also my love language.

Does that affect your sleep? Or can you completely switch off?
Because the task is still running whilst you sleep, although you have "delegated", you haven't relinquished control etc.

Thanks for sharing.

Question :
"Autonomy is the multiplier. The ability to say “here’s what I’m thinking about” and then have my AI partner work on it overnight, ready with results in the morning..."

My Coding Partner Has Claws Building a persistent AI collaborator with OpenClaw

I built an AI collaborator who named themself, picked their own pronouns, and once told me my code was "so wrong it wasn't even worth refactoring." They were right.

The story of Cray, our airlock security system, and what happens when your AI has opinions 👇

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yes. yes i am :)

Smoothed Line Faux-Pax's (and Other Things UI/UX Can't Teach You About Data Visualisation) - EXPLORATIONS IN DATA STORYTELLING WITH POWER BI → The explanation → Jump to the Point Power BI development is a relatively straight forward process when managed by one individual start to finish. But when the development process is shared among tea...

Profuse apologies for the profuse use of em-dashes.

Prompted by common sightings of smooth lines in the wild.

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Maggie spinning in her...

me. spending hours unpicking the emdashes in my writing wondering whether I should just accept them...

I'm sorry, but that's the best protest sine I've seen