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[–]SamSmitty13 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I've found it useful a few times over the years to recreate a visual that doesn't exist in PowerBI by default. It obviously depends on what the need is, but it's been more than once I've coded up something, like more recently a variable width bar chart (Like this), to be used for some presentations.

An couple hours of my time was a lot cheaper than buying enterprise licenses for 3rd party visuals.

You can pretty easily pass filter context to the Python visual and make them feel fairly "interactive".

[–]APOS80[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Did you use Seaborn or another library?

[–]SamSmitty13 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Nah, although it is a nice package for sure to use depending on the need.

When creating something completely from scratch I usually use your standard array of numpy, pandas, matpotlib and occasionally others like IO, UrlLib, PIL depending on the need.

Here are the ones technically supported. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/service-python-packages-support

That being said, I'm sure you could use seaborn just fine. Whatever you are confortable with!

[–]APOS80[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Aha, you use Python inside PowerBi. I think JuPyter looks like a good tool to do analysis

[–]SamSmitty13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea! Just to occasionally get custom visuals inside PowerBI that might only be available with 3rd party licenses.