2025 Week 11 | Power BI: Can you create a (story) arc diagram with core visuals?

Introduction

Welcome to week 11 of Workout Wednesday 2025.

This week’s challenge is to recreate the Dr Who Villain story arc’s visual depicted below showing the timelines of the first and last season of Villain appearances

or,

to challenge you to create your own data visualisation about Dr Who Villains. Perhaps you will recreate The Guardian’s stacked bar visual, or do something else entirely?

Have fun!

Requirements

  1. Obtain the data
  2. Recreate the Arc Diagram
  3. or
  4. Make your own visualisation with the same data
  5. (HINT : Data was modelled and rank was used to determine height of arc)

Dataset

This week’s dataset is downloadable from The Guardian : https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/jul/16/doctor-who-villains-list

Share

After you finish your workout, share on Bluesky or LinkedIn using the hashtags #WOW2025 and #PowerBI, and tag @MMarie, @shan_gsd, @KerryKolosko. Also make sure to fill out the Submission Tracker so that we can count you as a participant this week in order to track our participation throughout the year.

Solution

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