Text visual with Pyramid Analytics

In PowerBI there is a real nice visualisation that only shows a single figure with data. For Example you can see the actual sales this year without having to filter, slice, dice or having to read a chart or grid.

The image shown is a power bi dashboard example with the gaphic I am refering to.

At this moment Pyramid Analytics supports a variety of graphs, grid styles, maps and KPI's but this visualisation is not possibly by default.

The below tutorial will explain shortly how to accomplish this result by performing some tricks.

Firstly, lets create a new bioXL file. Within this report add a measure on columns and for example Year on rows.

This grid will then look like this:

Now it's time for some styling magic.

In the GRID tab first pump up the font size (red square in below image)

Then hide the borders by making them transparent (blue square in below image)

Then make rows and columns background transparent (yellow square in below image)

Then make the row, column or both text transparent (purple square in below image)

After these steps the text visual is created. Result is shown below in bioXL and as example in bioPOINT

Now this is a rather simple excercise. With adding parameters you can easily interact with this data visualisation!