Month: April 2023

2023 Week 17 | Power BI: Peaches’ Parameters and Bowser’s Bookmarks

Introduction This week’s challenge is provided by Guest Contributor Ben Ferry aka Power BI Guy. Requirements Power Query Transform data (hint unpivot and reduce the number of columns) Load Data Power BI Desktop Create a Measure for the Sum of the values column Create a measure to rank the characters based on the measure you …

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2023 Week 16 | Power BI: Measure Format Strings and Conditionally Formatted Titles

Introduction The April 2023 release of Power BI Desktop gave us dynamic format strings for measures. While the end result could be previously accomplished by using calculation groups, we can now have measures with different formats based upon various conditions – no need to go into Tabular Editor to do this now! While we can …

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#WOW2023 | Week 15 | Can you create Digital Signage with Tableau?

Introduction It’s Community Month once again here at #WOW2023 which means we have a guest coach. I wanted to use this opportunity to connect with our global community. Without a doubt, the most active group of challenge participants I see on Twitter, beyond those in anglophone countries, are the #DataSaber community based in Japan. I …

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2023 Week 15 | Power BI: What-if parameters inspired by Makeover Monday

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re using a Makeover Monday dataset that was inspired by Andy Kriebel’s post on Twitter (dataviz inception!). Andy has been working through Makeover Monday challenges in Power BI, and I thought it would be a good opportunity for us to do some of these together! This week’s challenge uses what-if parameters, a …

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Doge with a word cloud of US misspellings

2023 Week 14 | Power BI: Word Cloud and Modulo

Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by recent Twitter activities. We are creating a word cloud containing common misspellings in the US. Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11357183/Google-search-data-reveals-commonly-misspelled-words-spell-correctly.html OR https://github.com/kolky001/Workout-Wednesday-2023/blob/main/Misspellings Transform and load data HINT : Add Index column, create modulo column, unpivot data Power BI Desktop Obtain Word Cloud custom visual from …

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Embedded CRM Analytics Dashboard on Account Page

2023 Week 14 | Embedding CRM Analytics Dashboards in Salesforce

Introduction This week we are going to explore embedding dashboards within a Salesforce record page and apply a filter to make the insights contextual to the account you are viewing.  Requirements Create a simple recipe: Bring in the Account Object – ensure the Account ID Field is included Bring in the Case Object – ensure …

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