Building animation and story telling capabilities

Business teams and analysts are responsible for sharing or "walking through" business results, trends, and the findings from their analyses with other stakeholders such as senior management. To most effectively support the message delivery process in these scenarios, Power BI provides built-in animation capabilities for the standard scatter chart and ArcGIS map visualization types. Additionally, custom visuals such as the pulse chart further aid the storytelling process by embedding user-defined annotations into the visual and providing full playback control over the animation.

"We're bringing storytelling into Power BI. We're making Power BI into the PowerPoint for data" - Amir Netz, Microsoft Technical Fellow

This recipe includes examples of preparing the Scatter chart visualization for animation, leveraging the date animation feature of the ArcGIS map visual, and utilizing the Pulse Chart custom visual with annotations. Details on the...