The easiest way to do small-multiples in Power BI!

Recently, there was a post on the Power BI blog about how to do How to do multivariate reporting with Power BI or what you may know as “Small-Multiples.” Small-multiples allow you tell a big story via a chorus of little stories, that would otherwise be obscured by the large number of plotted points. There are many uses of this technique in the data visualization literature. If you are unfamiliar with small-multiples, please read this article as a primer.

In October 2016, Microsoft Research released the Infographics Designer custom visual for Power BI. Much of the attention was focused on how you can use graphics to create custom charts. However, buried in all of this was the ability to create small-multiples easily, using the Infographics Designer.

The Infographics Designer allows for four types of small-multiple visualizations.

• Cards
• Columns
• Bars
• Lines

In the video below, I’ll demonstrate to you how to use the Infographics Designer to create multiple types of small multiples.

If you have comments or questions, please post them below!