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2024 Week 36 | Power BI: Recreate a NYT Interactive Article

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday. This week we’re taking inspiration from the incredible infographics team over at the New York Times. Their 2015 article looks at the average American’s contribution to the drought in California. As of today (Sep 2024), about a third of California remains abnormally dry. This challenge features some fun data work …

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2024 Week 32 | Power BI: Track the Olympic Medal Count!

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday. This week we get to combine our love for data and the Olympics by building an Olympic medal tracker!  This is a design challenge. I have created a sample for inspiration, but feel free to build the report in any way your creative heart desires. In this challenge you’ll …

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2024 Week 28 | Power BI: Create custom navigation with Zoe Douglas

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is purely dataviz – there is no data transformation involved. A huge thanks to our friend and colleague Zoe Douglas for providing us with a beautiful and fun report to recreate. Find the data and instructions to complete the challenge below, and as always, have fun! Requirements …

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2024 Week 24 | Power BI: Get creative with the Power BI Core Visuals team

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is purely dataviz – there is no data transformation involved. You have the pleasure of either recreating or making over the stunning sample report provided by the Power BI core visuals team. This report is beautiful to look at and was built to demonstrate some of the …

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2024 Week 20 | Power BI: Build your first report with Dynamics 365 Business Central Data

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is for participants new to Power BI and/or new to data visualization. We’re building a report containing 2 charts, a table, and a slicer. My challenge to you is to design the report in a way that a) makes sense to business users and b) is …

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2024 Week 17 | Power BI: Design an Earth Day Infographic

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re celebrating Earth Day (April 22) with a design challenge. You can do whatever your designer heart desires with this challenge. I’ve provided a sample, but this is just to get your creative juices flowing. Whatever you do, ensure that your design is accessible and that you’re …

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2024 Week 14 | Power BI: Use a matrix to re-create a Tableau viz

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re recreating a really neat viz that was originally created by Flávio Matos for the Tableau team back in 2023. Flavio created the Periodic Table of Wine, with an option for users to select the food they’ll be eating to help them pair the perfect wine. Today, …

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2024 Week 11 | Power BI: IBCS Charts with Injae

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re taking notes out of Injae Park’s portfolio and recreating one of his IBCS charts. IBCS, or the International Business Communication Standards is a set of rules to level up how businesses talk and share info. Think of it as a cheat code for clearer charts and …

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2024 Week 10 | Power BI: DAX-less Reporting!

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is for folks who want to practice building reports that do have calculations but do not use complex DAX! I also had a little fun with Microsoft Designer for the images. If you haven’t had a chance to play around with this new AI design tool …

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2024 Week 6 | Power BI: Customer Lifetime Value Matrix

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is inspired by Ann Jackson, who created the challenge back in 2021 for the Tableau team. Let’s create a Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) Matrix, a tool that marketers use to segment customers based on their value and loyalty to a business. This helps marketers allocate resources …

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