Meagan Longoria

Introduction Recreating visuals you find online helps you build visual design skills and find workarounds to common problems or feature gaps in Power BI. This week, we are recreating this infographic from Visual Capitalist about the change in global wealth. The original is shown below, followed by my version in Power BI. Requirements Create a …

2025 Week 27 | Recreate This Wealth Infographic Read More

Introduction The January 2025 update of Power BI Desktop brought us some enhancements to the tree map visual, including 3 new tiling methods and options for spacing between groups and nodes. So this week we are trying out those features to make a tree map organized into columns.  Requirements Download the “Regional Sales Sample.pbix” file …

2025 Week 7 | Power BI: Create a tree map organized into columns Read More

Introduction There are times where we want to compare categorical data with a total, perhaps an average. And sometimes we don’t want to see that total at the bottom of a table. So this week we are creating a bar chart that contains a “total average” bar. We want the bar chart sorted descending by …

2025 Week 5 | Power BI: Add an All Category to a Bar Chart Read More

Introduction It’s cold and snowy in many places in the United States this week. So we are making an infographic to remind people about ice safety. It’s important to check that ice can support the weight of your desired outdoor activity, so you won’t fall through or harm the area.  Let’s use Power BI to …

2025 Week 2 | Power BI: Ice Thickness Infographic with Core Visuals Read More

Introduction A percentile is a number denoting the position of a data point within a numeric dataset by indicating the percentage of the data points with an equal or lesser (assuming it’s inclusive) value. Percentiles can be used to understand test scores, stock values, health indicators, and other values. This week, we will use them to look …

2024 Week 49 | Power BI: Visualize Ranges with Percentiles Read More

Introduction A bump chart shows changes in rank over time. This week, inspired by a visual from Statista Charts, we are making a bump chart of the countries with the highest GDP in 3 selected years. The example below uses a ribbon chart core visual to create the bump chart, but you are welcome to use …

2024 Week 45 | Power BI: Country GDP Bump Chart Read More