Can we open up Power BI to allow other creative thinkers out there to create new visualizations that can be posted on Power BI dashboard? As long as they have certain parameters (Name, chart types (...
In my mind, the single biggest disadvantage the Microsoft Power BI suite has is sticking users with basic excel charting capabilities. There are alternatives to excel for digging through information, but nothing that compares with the ease of use and power it provides to the standard users. However on the charting front, excel has been left behind. All you have to do is look at the examples of different visualizations on the d3.js website to see the capabilities of modern visualization tools. If we were able to use external charting libraries available through github or other sources for publishing to dashboards it would provide users with the best of both worlds.
