Comicgen

Comicgen adds comic characters whose emotion, pose, angle, etc can be controlled by data. This helps convey the right emotion and increase engagement.

Have Fun!

Usage

Import the package into to Power-BI Desktop
Create Measure for both Emotion and Pose
The Measure should return one of the Emotion or Pose respectively. Below is an example:

ProfitEmotion = IF(CALCULATE(SUM([Profit]) > 60, "smile", "tired")

SalesPose = IF(CALCULATE(SUM([Sales]) > 1000, "yuhoo", "angryfrustated")

Drag and Drop these Measures to respective Data Fields.
Goto Format Pane and expand Comic Settings
Select Data Driven in Emotion and Pose to bind the comics with data or you can override it by selecting your preferred Emotion and Pose from the dropdown. List of these poses and Emotions are available in below sections

The list of emotions are:

normal
laugh
sad
wink
angry
worried
surprised

The list of poses are:

pointingright
pointingup
yuhoo
superperfect
holdinglaptop
angryfrustrated
handsfolded
handsonhip
holdingbook
readingpaper
thumbsup
thinkinghmm

Examples:

Sales

Dev Setup

Clone this repository
Install JS modules Run npm install
Start Server pbiviz start

Change log

1.2.0: Add controls for position, x, y, zoom and width, to show any portion of a character (e.g. just the face)

Notes

License: MIT
End-user license agreement

gramener / comicgen-powerbi