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Annotating visualizations!

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Joseph Damiani on 02 Dec 2015 04:45:26

The ability to annotate a visualization, for example a chart or graph, would make both the dashboard and reports experience more robust.

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Andreu fil on 19 Apr 2024 09:52:37

RE: Annotating visualizations!

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on 17 Oct 2022 19:50:39

RE: Annotating visualizations!

making persistent annotations that can be shared with others

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on 17 Oct 2022 19:50:38

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Annotate option in power bi desktop and online dashboard version

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on 17 Oct 2022 19:50:36

RE: Annotating visualizations!

the annotation feature on the windows app is great, this should be available on the standard web interface as well

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Michael Barker on 13 Oct 2022 15:55:46

RE: Annotating visualizations!

Here is an example with a third-party visual. Ideally this would be feasible in bar/column/line/area graphs nativelyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rr-XbbGT9o

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Christine Payton on 05 Aug 2022 15:55:27

RE: Annotating visualizations!

Annotations are a crucial user experience addition. Feature parity with Tableau would be nice - e.g. ability to annotate a data point or a chunk of data points (see: https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/annotations_annotations_add.htm)

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Julia Rhodes on 13 Sep 2021 15:28:42

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It would be extremely useful to include text on data visualizations. We tracked disease trends over time and it is useful to note with text when there are big changes that influence disease trends (e.g., vaccine introduction). 

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Ram . on 10 May 2021 10:38:27

RE: Annotating visualizations!

If you are looking for annotation/ commentary options in Power BI, check out the visual from xViz - https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi-visuals/WA200000183?tab=Overview. Refer to this blog on how annotations can be configured - https://xviz.com/blogs/storytelling-using-annotations-in-power-bi/

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Onur Karabulut on 13 Apr 2021 01:58:04

RE: Annotating visualizations!

A built-in annotations feature integrated into the visualizations is what we need for our product. Sadly, there does not seem to be much traction with this idea since it was submitted in 2015. We'll likely build it as a custom feature using Power BI embedded capabilities.

Domo - one of Microsoft's competitors in the Analytics/BI space - seems to offer this capability out of the box.

https://knowledge.domo.com/Engage/Sharing_Content_in_Domo/Adding_Chart_Annotations

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