Earlier this year, Business IT research company Gartner released their annual Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. At my job, I presented on Gartner’s ratings of Microsoft (Power BI) and Tableau, and the research inspired me to use Power BI to visualize an interactive, animated history of the vendors in the Magic Quadrant since 2008. A few highlights:
1. Clicking the play button at the bottom of the chart shows you an animated view of the data over the last decade.
2. If you click on any individual dot/vendor (you can also hold shift to select multiple vendors), you can see the path traced out by over time.
3. You can select a range of years or individual years to filter the data.
4. You can also filter the data by Quadrant Classification: Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries, or Niche Players.