2024 Week 26 | Power BI: Reference Theme Sentiment Colors in DAX

Introduction Power BI reports have a theme that specifies the default colors, fonts, and visual styles. In Power BI Desktop, you can choose to use a built-in theme, start with a built-in theme and customize it, or create your own theme.  In addition to the primary data colors, we can also define sentiment colors and divergent …

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#WOW2024 | Week 26 | Can you filter from a donut without highlighting the pie?

Introduction I was recently catching up on the Flerlage Twins blog, and came across a post that I had somehow missed from the end of  last year about trying to solve a highlighting problem with donut charts when filtering. I read through it, and was surprised that my favorite technique from Yuri Fal didn’t work, …

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Timebrush slicer visual with Deneb depicting Rat Sightings in Manhattan

2024 Week 25 | Power BI: Time Brush Slicer

Introduction This week’s challenge looks to create a time brush slicer. The time brush slicer can be created with Deneb or another custom visual. Requirements Obtain the data from a previous challenge Model data Option A Import Timbrush Slicer and Small Multiple Custom Visual Create a time brush slicer Create a line chart with small …

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2024 Week 25 | Sigma: Can you compare these populations?

Introduction Welcome to Week Twenty-Five! This week, you’re going to compare US Census data from 2000 and 2010.  In this challenge, we’ll highlight a couple of new formatting additions to Sigma, as well as create a dynamic parameter.  Good Luck!-Ashley Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to WOW Sigma Instance Youtube …

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#WOW2024 | 25 | Can you combine part-to-whole and comparison?

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 …

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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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#WOW2024 | Week 24 | Can you visualise headcount distribution in multiple ways on a single sheet?

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 …

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2024 Week 24 | Sigma: Can you add custom map layers?

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 …

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2024 Week 23 – Account without Activities in the last 6 months

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 …

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