Introduction Hello there! I’m Yoshi and I joined the WOW Tableau coach team this year.I’ve been participating in the WOW challenges since 2020, so I am really honored to be one of the coaches. Here’s my first challenge for you: let’s practice datetime calculations and data densifications. This week, we deal with dummy data regarding …
#WOW2024 | Week 10 | Can you visualize when it gets busy? Read More
Introduction Every February for a few years, a group of data viz enthusiasts kicks of the DuBois challenge, where the community is tasked with recreating some of W.E.B. Du Bois’ famous visualisations. I used our #WorkoutWednesday last year to participate and I intend to continue this (very short) tradition this year. Today we are looking …
Introduction This week have a guest author! Tausif Kazi is an expert in data visualization who is experienced in several platforms such as Sigma, Power BI, Tableau, and Snowflake. Connect with Tausif:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tausifkazi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/VizByTK This challenge will cover how to create a Bar chart in Pivot Tables. This will help your users quickly understand the …
2024 Week 9 | Sigma: Can you create Bar charts in this Pivot Table? Read More
Introduction Almost the end of February! Time flies fast! – And another WoW Challenge is here!! This week is based on the same dataset and maps we had as a challenge during Week 4! The changes are adding one KPI, and one top 5 chart to the existing dashboard. Then add an Interaction (not binding) …
2024 Week 09 – Formulate Select and Navigate Dashboard Read More
Introduction Welcome to this week’s Workout Wednesday. This week, we are taking advantage of some new features in the February 2024 release of Power BI Desktop. We can now have bars overlap in a clustered column chart and hide the inner borders in a stacked column chart. This week, we’ll use those formatting options to …
2024 Week 9 | Power BI: Use Bar Overlap and Border Formatting Read More
Introduction How is it the end of February already? Time flies when you’re having fun. I’m going to apologise first, as I think this week is going to be tough, and with that in mind I’m going to supply extra hints and tips along the way. This will test your Table Calculation Skills and Order …
#WOW2024 | Week 9 | Can you create these KPI Cards? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge we will be utilising visual calculations (this will require turning Visual Calculations on in Preview settings of February 2024 Desktop) and some additional new data label formatting options to create a pipeline funnel with out of the box visuals in Power BI. Visual calculations can be handy for visual specifiic calculations …
2024 Week 8 | Power BI: Build a Pipeline Funnel with Core Visuals Read More
Introduction In this workout, we received weather data from weather machine, where every hour degree are stored in a column, and degree for each area are represented as a row. To easily work on this data, we need to transpose the data from column to row. sample source data Requirements Create a dev org or use an …
Introduction A good data visualization strikes a balance between enough and too much information. For this week’s challenge, we will explore a couple of ways to customize tooltips. Customizing these can help provide users with meaningful information without overwhelming or crowding the visuals. I’m sure you’ll knock this one out of the park! Need access …
2024 Week 8 | Sigma: Can you customize this tooltip? Read More
Introduction While reviewing recent work I’ve done in preparation for this week’s challenge, I came across a tile map with individual area charts by state that we use to monitor subscriptions, and thought it would be a fun one. As I dug into it, I realized it was inspired by Luke’s challenge in 2020 Week …
#WOW2024 | Week 8 | Can you create an area chart tile map? Read More
