Category: Visualisations
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Dice Roller
I made this simple mobile app to quickly calculate a collection of random dice rolls for tabletop gaming. The app asks for how many dice and also can calculate the number of rolls above a certain threshold, if needed. The app uses animated dice GIFs saved in SharePoint. The GIFS are set to play once…
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Hexgrid in Power Apps with Location Pin
This makes use of the hexgrid UK shapemap detailed in this article. We can make use of the Power Apps mobile client’s geolocation features to establish where the current user is based. As this comes through as a latitude and longitude value, we can correlate this to our shapemaps lat/lon values and try and place…
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Hexgrid Shape Map
I had a requirement to represent arbitrary regions on a map of the UK. The regions didn’t have natural borders like counties or nations would, and after several attempts at ‘making up’ the borders I wasn’t seeing the effect I was after. One of the issues was that smaller regions became too tiny to make…