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 …
Introduction When used with care, scatterplots can be used to create symbol maps using an equidistant projected map (or Geographic or Plate Carrée) as the plot background image. Attention will need to be paid to proportions and axis scales. More information on projection types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections Requirements Obtain the snowfall data from github Create new columns …
2024 Week 22 | Power BI: Approximate Binned Mapping with Scatterplots Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week 22! This week we’ll be using the food truck data set again. We’ll use Input tables to set profit goals, and get a powerful view of how our actual sales perform against our goals! If you need a refresher on input tables, revisit week 6’s challenge, or read up on them …
2024 Week 22 | Sigma: Can you add custom Sales Goals? Read More
Introduction Have you ever been frustrated with unsynchronized scrollbars when placing multiple sheets on a Tableau dashboard? I own a blog about Tableau and can tell you that one of the most frequently viewed posts is about this topic.Ken’s blog post offers several solutions to this issue. A “simple” solution is to combine everything into …
#WOW2024 | Week 22 | Can You Make a Page Navigator? Read More
Introduction While you can’t directly populate a slicer with a measure, you can use a slicer to filter other visuals based upon measure amounts. That is what we are doing in this week’s challenge. In the report below, we have a budget analysis report. The report allows users to filter the projects table to projects …
2024 Week 21 | Power BI: Use Slicers to Filter a Visual Based Upon a Measure Read More
Introduction This week, I was inspired by a post in the Sigma Community from Mark Ruesink that showed a really clever way to visualize outliers in Sigma using a combo chart and some clever calculations. Mark goes all the way to visualizing outliers, so I definitely recommend checking out his full post, but I wanted …
2024 Week 21 | Sigma: Can you set some boundaries? Read More
Introduction This week I wanted to do something spatial related, so I challenged Olivier Newman, one of our Data School Consultants, to build me a challenge. I am breaking his challenge into two weeks. The first being this one. Can you rebuild this tube map? Ideally you will need 1 parameter and 1 set and …
#WOW2024 | Week 21 | Can you rebuild this tube map? Read More
Introduction Week 20 already! Crazy how fast the year is going by…and how fast you’re skilling up in Sigma! I love scatter plots. They’re a great way to display a lot of information in an easily consumable package. Layering quadrant colors on top, make it even easier to visually group dots and find outliers. -Katrina …
