Kerry Kolosko

2023 Week 18 | Power BI: SVG Clip Path

Introduction This week’s challenge is a little SVG fun. Recent Power BI Desktop changes have allowed even further width and height adjustments for images in matrix visuals. So we will be extending this by making a bar chart of chocolate bars. Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from 2023-week-11 challenge or; Obtain the dataset from …

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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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2023 Week 07 | Power BI: Non-linear Regression

Introduction This week for Workout Wednesday we will be trying our hand at non-linear regression with the Deneb custom visual. With Vega and Vega-Lite we can create a non-linear line of best fit over our data points and utilise the statistical API to return a correlation coefficient. Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from the …

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Vertical Area Chart describing Republican and Democrat shifts in ideology

2023 Week 03 | Power BI: Vertical Area Chart

Introduction Howdy All! We’re all topsy-turvey this week turning line charts on their side! ⇩ This weeks challenge was inspired by Nick Desbarats article Are Vertical Line Charts Ever a Good Idea? Can you find some other examples where vertical line charts may be a good idea? ⋟^◕ܫ◕^⋞ Happy Vizzing Requirements Power Query Obtain the voteview_polarization_data.csv …

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Power BI page featuring an image carousel

2022 Week 52 | Power BI: Image Carousel

Introduction “Hot days, warm nights, beaches, backyard cricket and Christmas celebrations are all part of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.” This week we will be connecting to a public flickr photo gallery from the State Library of South Australia, to create an image carousel using a custom visual from AppSource. Requirements Power Query Connect to the …

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How Brits met their partners

2022 Week 45 | Power BI: Ribbon Chart (Advanced)

Introduction Another Deneb visual this week – creating a custom Ribbon Chart.   This ribbon chart takes on a slightly different form than the ribbon charts you may be used to. This ribbon chart is focused on highlighting the change in rank and proportion of response types between the first and last dates of a …

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2022 Week 36 | Power BI: Split Violin Plot and HTML

Introduction Another PlotlyJS visual this week – creating a split violin plot. We’ll be comparing male and female dating preferences collected from speed dating events between 2002-2004. EXTRA CREDIT – For those with a little more time on their hands, an extended workout challenge is included; conduct your own data analysis and create a data …

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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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2022 Week 26 | Power BI: Polar Plots with Charticulator

Introduction June is Music Month and this week we are getting arty with Charticulator. In our previous Charticulator challenges, we designed with cartesian plots, spiral plots and tried our hand at nested charts. For this challenge we use a Polar Scaffold to visualise songs segments by time/duration.   This challenge presumes some Power Query experience. …

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