Kerry Kolosko

2024 Week 8 | Power BI: Build a Pipeline Funnel with Core Visuals

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Introduction This week’s challenge we will be utilising visual calculations (this will require turning Visual Calculations on in Preview settings of February 2024 Desktop) and some additional new data label formatting options to create a pipeline funnel with out of the box visuals in Power BI. Visual calculations can be handy for visual specifiic calculations …

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DataViz Makeover of bar chart

2024 Week 7 | Power BI: Report Re-design – Aussie trips to Indonesia

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Introduction This week’s challenge is a little different, we will be looking to make-over a report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This report contains a lot of information and data sources to download, so it is up to you as to how much or how little you want to do. The primary challenge, however, …

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Faceted Strip Plot with Median Overlay

2024 Week 5 | Power BI: Create a Strip Plot with Median Overlay

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Introduction Sometimes it can be useful to show all data points instead of aggregating them. That is where an instance chart, also called a strip plot or a barcode plot, can be useful. This week we are building on a faceted strip plot made in 2023 week 35, and adding a median overlay. Inspired by …

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2024 Week 1 | Power BI: Stacked Bridge with Core Visual

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Introduction This week’s challenge builds on last weeks challenge to utilise updated column fill and data labelling features from the Power BI December 2023 release. The challenge will be to create a stacked bridge chart using the core column and line combo chart. Building the bridge will require calculated tables. Intermediate users can use the …

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ring chart

2023 Week 48 | Power BI: Ring Chart

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Introduction This week’s challenge uses a few layering techniques in the Deneb custom visual. Here you will be challenged to use multiple independent scales on a layered plot. Advanced users can concatenate total bars for extra credit! Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from Github Model and load data Power BI Desktop Obtain Deneb from …

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SVG Pictrogram

2023 Week 32 | Power BI: SVG Pictogram

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Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by FiveThirtyEight’s Nobody had more style than Jay Wright created by Ryan Best For this week’s challenge we will be creating SVGs with shape elements that are coloured dynamically based on field values. Create your own SVG and add your own flair to this design. Requirements Obtain the source data …

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Project timeline Visual

2023 Week 28 | Power BI: Project Timeline

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Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by Bas. We are creating a Timeline Visual using the Line Chart and measure-driven data labels. For this project timeline, we will be adding a today line, highlighting completed milestones, and milestones that are off-track. We will be adding descriptors to the milestones and truncating the descriptors to a …

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Bubble Chart Variants

2023 Week 25 | Power BI: Bubble Chart Variants with Charticulator

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Introduction This week we are continuing our viz efforts inspired by the 1 dataset 100 visualizations project, presented by the Data Viz Project. Last week, Meagan challenged us to create as many visuals as possible using the Deneb custom visual available in Power BI AppSource. The week before, Shannon challenged us to make as many visuals as …

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Jittered Scatter Chart and Bubble Plot of Adelaide rainfall between 1183 and 2022

2023 Week 22 | Power BI: Inverted Jittered Scatter

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Introduction This week’s challenge uses Deneb custom visual to create a jittered scatter with inverted axis plus a bubble plot with labels. Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from Australian Bureau of Meteorology Website Model and load data Power BI Desktop Option 1: Obtain Deneb Custom Visual from AppSource Create a Scatter Chart with point …

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