Introduction What’s up everybody! Thank for checking and taking on the latest #WOW2024 challenge! I’ve got another real-life inspired challenge for you all this week. At times, it can important to show both part-to-whole relationships as well as rank or comparison to each other. We know that there are many ways to accomplish but what …
#WOW2024 | 25 | Can you combine part-to-whole and comparison? Read More
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 …
2024 Week 24 | Power BI: Get creative with the Power BI Core Visuals team Read More
Introduction For this week’s challenge I want to see if you can provide users with the flexibility to choose how they want to display a particular metric – in this case we’re looking at Headcount data, and how it is distributed across different employee attributes. Depending on the question being asked, a particular layout might …
Introduction A few weeks ago, the 19th Police District of Chicago emailed me with some interesting survey data. The visualizations were useful, but they were living inside of a Google Slides presentation, and I wanted to dig deeper into the results. Thankfully, I followed my nose to their community survey website and found that they …
2024 Week 24 | Sigma: Can you add custom map layers? Read More
Introduction We are already into the mid 2024 and hope you are ready for another challenge! This is hopefully easier than some of the previous challenges we have set in CRM Analytics this year! It contains windowing function with input widgets. Yes, you read that right! Two great tools that can make your and your …
Introduction In addition to the powerful dashboard offered by CRM Analytics, the tool also offers a powerful data transformation tool, the Recipe. This week, the challenge is not the dashboard itself but preparing data based on a requirement. Requirement: retrieve all Customers without “activity” in the last 6 months. Activity here means: – Opportunity creation– Contact …
2024 Week 23 – Account without Activities in the last 6 months Read More
Introduction As workbook builders we need to be thoughtful when deciding which visualizations to use in all sorts of scenarios. A good rule of thumb to help decide is looking for visualizations that provide high amounts of information to a low pixel or space ratio. This week we’re choosing to fill the donut chart to …
2024 Week 23 | Sigma: Can you fill the donut hole? Read More
Introduction Power BI does not offer a Venn Diagram option as a core visual. This is not surprising given there are not many uses for this kind of visualisation. However, most people can read and understand the meaning of a Venn Diagram when they see one. Venn Diagrams is they are useful to display overlaps …
Introduction This challenge started out with one idea which turned into something very different. It’s a little wacky & a little hacky, which I suppose is the essence of these challenges. The main element of this challenge became figuring out how to move a Parameter input box to a different position on the page, based …
#WOW2024 | Week 23 | Manually overwrite a value in a table Read More
Introduction Hello again, everyone. As data analysts, we are frequently asked to present the “Top N” group members sorted by a metric. In this blog, we’ll try to bring the top 4 accounts industries sorted by count, and group all the following members in a single “Other” bar below the top 4 ones. Requirements Create …
