2026 Week 25: Can you show difference from selected Sales?

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Introduction This challenge is similar to other challenges, except you’re trying to think differently. Previously this challenge would have been done with LODs or Table Calcs, whilst using Parameter Actions. But you don’t need those fancy Table Calcs or LODs to make the basis of this to work.Yes this does contain some hacky elements, mainly […]

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2026 Week 24 | Power BI : Infographic Makeover

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Introduction In this week’s challenge we are replicating or doing a makeover on a bodily injuries Infographic, with your choice of two datasets. The design inspiration comes from Safe Work Australia’s Key Statistics   Use your imagination and think about ways you can improve the visual presentation of your dataset of choice. Extra points for

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#WOW2026 | Week 24 | Can you measure and visualize travel distance?

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Introduction The World Cup is in North America this month, and I saw a post showing the locations of national team training sites along with venues where games are being held, and the distance they were each travelling. I was curious if I could build something similar, and I was similarly curious how much each

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2026 Week 23 | Power BI: Create a Euler Diagram

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Introduction This week we are exploring a new type of visual: an Euler diagram.  An Euler diagram is a powerful visualization tool used to depict hierarchical relationships and set containment. Unlike a Venn diagram, which displays all possible logical intersections—even those that are empty—an Euler diagram focuses specifically on the connections present in your data.

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#WOW2026 | Week 23 | Can you create a double-sided multi-row Stem-and-Leaf Plot?

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Introduction When browsing around for inspiration for this week’s challenge, I came across this stem & leaf Power BI WOW challenge by Meagan Longoria, which in turn was inspired by a Tableau #WOW challenge set by Yusuke in 2024. So I thought it would be fun to go ‘full circle’ and see if I could

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#WOW2026 | 23 | Fun with Gantt Charts

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Introduction For the week’s challenge we’re looking at Gantt charts! Gantt chart don’t have to necessarily show timeline data. In Tableau, they can be used to show “floating” bar charts. Which can be very powerful in certain use cases. This challenge looks at historical American Football Super Bowl betting odds and game results. In this

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2026 Week 22 | Sigma: Input Table Reset & Forced Custom View

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Introduction Welcome to Week 22 of 2026! Most users learned form/input table handling by clearing forms or resetting the input table upon submission or an action trigger downstream. This is viable for a low usage app.  If you are building an app that might be used by hundreds of users simultaneously, and the workflow requires

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2026 Week 22 | Power BI: Create a Wind Vector Map

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Introduction With the introduction of Fabric Apps at the Build conference this week, Fabric now natively supports visualization libraries like Vega, Vega-Lite, and. D3.js. In celebration, we are doing a Vega-Lite challenge. This week we are making a wind vector map. This map shows how wind speed and direction change across a region, using colors

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2026 Week 21 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 4

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Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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