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2025 Week 21 | Power BI: Scatterplot / Timeseries Smoothing

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Introduction When looking at timeseries data, we may encounter high variability from one week to the next, creating highly jagged and difficult to read charts. There are a number of techniques to smooth the lines to better depict trend. Some may use rolling averages, others, like YouGov, use LOESS regression. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/how-often-brits-exercise In this weeks challenge …

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2025 Week 20 | Year-over-Year Selected Metric Trends

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Introduction Welcome to Week 21 of 2025! This report allows users to select a performance metric (e.g., Revenue) and compare its values across 2024 and 2023. It provides a flexible way to explore year-over-year changes and spot trends or anomalies through interactive visuals. Good luck! -Andrei Requirements Main Visual: Area Chart with Year-on-Year Comparison Green …

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2025 Week 18 | Power BI: Create a skyline chart

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Introduction Hello everyone! This week we are looking at developing a ‘Skyline’ visual.   Anyone outside of the construction industry may not have heard this term before, but it is kind of a combination of a stacked column visual and a kanban board.   It is used in construction to show construction activities (workpacks) that …

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2025 Week 17 | Power BI: Create a control chart

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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday!  This week we’re building a Control Chart. Control charts can be used to track a specific process measure – such as sales, defects, or processing time – over a period of time. A few common uses are: Manufacturing: Monitoring defect rates and equipment performance  Healthcare: Tracking infection rates, patient …

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2025 Week 16 | Power BI: Cards – NEXT Level | with emojis and variances label

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Introduction 🎉 Happy Workout Wednesday, data fam! 🎉 I’m thrilled to be back with another Power BI challenge—and this one is all about taking something simple and pushing it to the NEXT level! 💪 Cards are often the go-to for showing big, bold numbers. But what if we could make them smarter? More informative, expressive, …

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2025 Week 15 | Power BI: The 2025 DataViz World Champion has been crowned!

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

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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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