Meagan Longoria compares and contrasts:
One of the new features in the August Power BI Desktop release is the updated legends that are styled to more accurately reflect the per-series formatting on the visual. This made me curious how close I could get to the clean look of a Deneb (vega-lite) stacked bar chart.
I used open source data from the Vega github repo and applied a few filters in Power BI. I used exactly the same source data in each chart, filtering down to five sites and 9 varieties. I chose a visual with a legend, data labels, and total labels to display the differences. We can argue about whether you should show a chart with this many labels another day.
Click through to see how the in-built visual compares to a custom visual of the same form.