Comicgen

November 7, 2020 ยท View on GitHub

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

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Have Fun!

Usage

  1. Import the package into to Power-BI Desktop
  2. Create Measure for both Emotion and Pose
  3. 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")
  1. Drag and Drop these Measures to respective Data Fields.
  2. Goto Format Pane and expand Comic Settings
  3. 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

Usage

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:

Dev Setup

  1. Clone this repository
  2. Install JS modules Run npm install
  3. 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