The School-Daycare Relationship Visual is a custom Power BI visual designed to help users analyze and choose the best daycare centre for a school. By representing schools and daycare centres as bubbles, the visual makes it easy to explore capacity, type, and proximity-based relationships. It provides decision-makers with a clear and interactive way to identify suitable daycare options around schools.
Challenges
Users face challenges when comparing schools and daycare centres:
- Lack of clarity in visualizing multiple schools and their associated daycare centres.
- Difficulty in assessing relationships such as distance and type.
- Limited flexibility in customizing visuals to highlight relevant attributes.
Solution
The School-Daycare Relationship Visual addresses these challenges by providing dynamic and customizable insights:
- Dynamic Positioning: Automatically arranges schools and their nearby daycare centres based on dataset coordinates.
- Relationship Links: The color of each link shows the strength of the school–daycare relationship, while link length indicates proximity.
- Capacity Indicators: Bubble size represents the capacity of each daycare centre.
- Customizable Options: Offers flexible formatting for bubble size, link width, text, and other properties.
Implementation Details
- Built using the Power BI Custom Visual SDK.
- Utilizes dynamic positioning algorithms to place schools and daycare centres intuitively.
- Designed with customizable settings for bubble size, stroke colors, and link styling.
- Optimized to handle multiple schools and varying numbers of daycare centres without clutter.
Key Features
- Dynamic placement of schools and daycare centres.
- Relationship strength and distance indicated through link color and length.
- Bubble sizing to represent daycare capacity.
- Fully customizable formatting options.
- Smooth rendering for multiple datasets.
Results
The School-Daycare Relationship Visual has delivered significant improvements:
- Simplified decision-making for selecting suitable daycare centres.
- Clear visualization of proximity and relationship strength.
- Better data exploration with customizable formatting.
- Reduced clutter while supporting multiple schools and daycare comparisons.