Year: 2022

2022 Week 34 | Power BI: Calculation Groups

Introduction Calculation Groups in Power BI essentially allow you to apply logic or formatting to a variety of measures at the same time.  For example, let’s say you were looking to create a Month-To-Date, Quarter-To-Date, and Year-To-Date view across Revenue, Orders, and Units.  This would require you to create a calculation for each of the …

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2022 Week 33 | Power BI: Compare two series of values

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re visualizing two series of values in a take on last week’s Tableau challenge! This week’s challenge uses youth cellphone data and gives you the opportunity to either build a dumbbell chart using Charticulator or to build a lipstick column chart using a custom visual. Complete one or both …

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#WOW2022 W33: Can you compare the latest month to the prior X months average?

Introduction When looking through the challenge insights I realised we haven’t had many of the fundamental LOD style Workouts for a while. So this week we take a look at how does the latest month compare to the prior X months average? Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 800 x 700px 2 …

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2022 Week 32 | Leverage Field Parameters in Measures

Introduction My name is Spencer Hamilton, Analytics Consultant with phData, and I’ll be guest hosting this week’s challenge! For the challenge, we’re going to look at one of Power BI’s newer features, Field Parameters, and create some calculations that dynamically change based on the selected parameter value. In this specific example we’re looking at Sample …

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#WOW2022 Week 31: Let’s build a KPI dashboard

Introduction Who doesn’t love a good KPI dashbaord? This one is fairly simple and straightforward. Let’s look at four simple metrics and see how each subcategory ranks within a selected metric. With this challenge – MIND THE NUMBER FORMATTING 🙂 Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 700 x 350 2 sheets Display …

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2022 Week 31 | Power BI: Connected Scatter with PlotlyJS

Introduction This week for Workout Wednesday we are getting familiar with the PlotlyJS visual by creating traces and annotations for a connected scatterplot.   Connected scatterplots are a cross between a scatterplot and a lineplot whereby two numeric variables are connected by a third ordered variable (often time).   The below graph created with the …

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#WOW2022 | Week 30 | Dynamic Dates in a Heatmap

Introduction I’ve been wanting to create this challenge for some time, so I’m really glad to finally be releasing it. This challenge was inspired by some work I did last year where a client wanted to be able to visualize the number of hours that their team had spent working on different projects. What made …

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2022 – Week 29: What is the Time-Weighted Return?

Introduction Working with financial data is hard. There are some calculations that make for long evenings to get right. One of those calculations is Time-Weighted Return. This challenge is simple: calculate the Time-Weighted Return Rate for a simple data source and return a line chart. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 400px …

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