Power BI – Workout Wednesday

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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! Last week, 6,000 of our closest friends met up in Las Vegas for the 2nd annual Fabric Community Conference. The Workout Wednesday team had a strong showing! We hosted a pre-conference meetup with a hundred of our friends, where we completed a Workout Wednesday exercise live! Thanks to everyone who …

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Apr 1 2025March 30, 2025

2025 Week 14 | Power BI: Create a nullity matrix

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / By Meagan Longoria

Introduction This week we are building a nullity matrix, a tabular visual that helps us to easily see which rows and columns have null data. There is a library for this in Python, but you need to “roll your own” in Power BI. I found the Python library and liked the idea of visualizing null …

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Mar 26 2025March 26, 2025

Week 13 | Power BI: Segments and Sanky

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / By Eugene Meidinger

Introduction I’m honored to be added to the team and I’m expecting I’ll be learning as much about dataviz as you are all will. This first challenge comes from the real world, where a simple visual shift made a big difference for a small company. The question from the customer was simple: do new customer …

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Mar 20 2025March 20, 2025

2025 Week 12 | Power BI: Animated Progress Bar with Edward Charles

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / By Shannon Lindsay

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is all about bringing your data to life with animation! It was inspired by a LinkedIn post from Edward Charles, where he used an SVG measure and the new card visual to create an animated progress bar. Progress bars can be a great way to visually track goals, completion …

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Mar 13 2025

2025 Week 11 | Power BI: Can you create a (story) arc diagram with core visuals?

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / By Kerry Kolosko

Introduction Welcome to week 11 of Workout Wednesday 2025. This week’s challenge is to recreate the Dr Who Villain story arc’s visual depicted below showing the timelines of the first and last season of Villain appearances or, to challenge you to create your own data visualisation about Dr Who Villains. Perhaps you will recreate The …

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Mar 5 2025March 5, 2025

2025 Week 10 | Power BI: Line Chart with dynamic formatting

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / By Diana Ackermann

Introduction Hi to everybody! I am so happy to be among the new contributors for Workout Wednesday. I believe these kinds of challenges bring tremendous value to everyone who tries something new on a regular basis—you’ll learn so much! We will look at the consumer price index for chocolate in the Euro region. As you …

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Feb 26 2025March 4, 2025

2025 Week 9 | Power BI: From stacked bar chart to bullet chart

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / By Kathrin Borchert

Introduction I’m incredibly honored to be part of this amazing group of Power BI enthusiasts, and I couldn’t be more excited to share my very first Workout Wednesday challenge with you all! Have you ever looked at a visualization and thought, there has to be a better way to present this data? This week, we’re …

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Feb 20 2025February 20, 2025

2025 Week 8 | Power BI: Join the Power BI DataViz World Championships Competition!

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / By Shannon Lindsay

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re sharing an exciting announcement and inviting you to participate in the first ever Power BI Data Visualization World Championships! Workout Wednesday is collaborating with Microsoft and our very own Meagan and Kerry are judging the Grand Finale in Las Vegas! Requirements You can find the complete challenge details on …

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Feb 12 2025February 12, 2025

2025 Week 7 | Power BI: Create a tree map organized into columns

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / By Meagan Longoria

Introduction The January 2025 update of Power BI Desktop brought us some enhancements to the tree map visual, including 3 new tiling methods and options for spacing between groups and nodes. So this week we are trying out those features to make a tree map organized into columns. Requirements Download the “Regional Sales Sample.pbix” file …

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Feb 9 2025February 10, 2025

2025 Week 6 | Power BI: Can you embed charts from Web?

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / By Kerry Kolosko

Introduction Welcome to week 6 of Workout Wednesday 2025. In this week’s challenge we will be exploring other charting options used across the web and how these can be embedded into Power BI Desktop. Using publicly accessible charts and data, we will utilise the HTML content visual to embed interactive charts within iFrames. The examples …

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