Power BI | How IBCS standards make yor energy bill clearer

I often see graphs in dashboards that are ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐. This happens not only at work, but also in our daily lives.

Last week I received the monthly overview from Eneco with a chart showing the development of energy consumption. At first glance a lot of useful information.

๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ ?

As an IBCS โ€“ International Business Communication Standards specialist and Zebra BI partner, I always strive for clear and unambiguous data visualizations and I couldn’t resist making the “Eneco chart makeover”.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐„๐ง๐ž๐œ๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ
It is extremely difficult to see in which months your consumption is ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž than last year.

In Eneco’s graph, a lot of information is shown at the same time. However, the graph could be improved quite a bit.

๐Ÿ“Œ This is where IBCS โ€“ International Business Communication Standards comes in by default. This standard ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒย in data visualization, making comparisons ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ญ.

In this chart makeover, I’ve applied one of the most important core principles of IBCS โ€“ International Business Communication Standards, which is to add ๐ฏ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ. Instead of just showing the consumption of this year and last year, I focus on the differences. This makes it immediately clear how your current consumption compares to last year.

Made a simple Eneco background design, inspired by the logo (dots) and used Zebra BI chart visuals. Easy to use, no additional measures required.

๐Ÿ“Œ This approach immediately made itย possible to see how my energy consumption compares to previous periods.

A ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ, but a ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž.

๐‚๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง
The IBCS โ€“ International Business Communication Standards are not only suitable for business reporting, we can also benefit from clear and structured informationย in our daily lives.

There is a good chance that with a few IBCS โ€“ International Business Communication Standards adjustments you will get a much clearer insight!

๐Ÿ‘‰Which of the ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ I have created ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ? Let me know in the comments.

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