Introduction This week we’re going to reach back in the WOW catalog to week 24 of 2017. Do you remember where you were in your Tableau journey back then? Workout Wednesday was just kicking off with Andy Kriebel and Emma Whyte and in week 24, Emma presented this challenge to the community. Now, normally, I …
Introduction This week we are building on Meagan and David’s challenges using the Nobel Prize data. We’re also continuing on our customization journey and will have a bit of fun using unicode values. Unicode is a standard numeric value that represents a character, which can easily be transformed into a character in Power BI using a bit …
Introduction This week we are continuing with the Nobel laureates data and taking a look at gender diversity of Nobel laureates. We’ll do this by using an isotype visualization. Isotype visuals use an icon that is related to the subject matter being depicted and often use multiples to represent quantitative data. You can learn more about …
2021 Week 24 | Power BI: Create an Isotype Visualization Read More
Introduction How is it that time of the week already? This week I have a challenge for you which hones in on some of the Map Layers and Spatial Calculations. It is using a dataset recreated by a colleague of mine Dan Farmer as he posted a similar visualisation internally. Thanks for the inspiration Dan. …
2021 Week 24 | Tableau: Can you visualise the Cholera Outbreak? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by a recent situation I encountered. The dashboard users had two different ways to calculate a goal and wanted the option to change how the calculation works for each category. Not only that, they wanted to be able to take the mixed calculations and sum them up to get …
Introduction Continuing with the Nobel Prize data that Meagan began exploring last week, this week extends to consider aspects of individual Nobel laureates. The main visual is a cumulative line chart, but you’ll also provide detail on laureates with a report page tooltip. While additional JSON expansion and transformation was required from the original dataset, …
2021 Week 23 | Power BI: Can You Build a Cumulative Line Chart? Read More
Introduction Workout Wednesdays for Power BI is now in our sixth month! Thanks so much for joining us. For the month of June, we will have independent exercises that all use the same data source but focus on different aspects of the data and of Power BI. Our dataset for the month comes from Nobelprize.org. …
2021 Week 22 | Power BI: Create Your Own Timeline from JSON Data Read More
Introduction Data analyst is supposedly the sexiest job of the 21st century. Most people think that we spend our time building amazing models, visualizations, or insights all day. What they don’t know is that you spend nearly most of your time cleaning data. Some data is nice and refined (aka usable) and other data needs …
#WOW2021 week 22: Can You Structure the Unstructured? Read More
Introduction I’m really putting myself out there this week. But it’s for a good cause, so here we go! If you aren’t familiar, I love listen to music…who doesn’t though, right? Pretty sure I’m in the majority here. Anywho, being that my second hobby is data visualization, I really like visualizing about music. So anytime …
#WOW2021 week 21: How often is Sean listening to his favorite songs? Read More
Introduction The Power BI Workout Wednesday team has decided that May is made for DAX! Each challenge this month will require some DAX in the solution. For this week’s solution we are going to practice DAX time intelligence functions, looking at the housing market in the US state of Connecticut. Time intelligence functions allow you to …
