Introduction In this challenge, we are looking to add a bar with custom logic to a bar chart. Sometimes when I’m working with a customer, they want a baseline, total, or reference point to be included in the column of a column chart or the row of a table. If it’s just a matter of …
2025 Week 37 | Power BI: Adding a baseline bar in a bar chart Read More
Introduction This weeks challenge is an extension of week 21, whereby we will create a timeseries smoothing over lines rather than scatter points. The challenge here is to emphasize the difference between two populations, whilst having the details visible, but not prominent – getting the opacity/strokedash (for overlapping lines) and colour contrast (for perceptibility) right …
2025 Week 36 | Power BI: Area between timeseries smoothing Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week 35 of 2025! When building reports in Power BI, one of the most common requests I hear from users is: “Can I explore different KPIs side by side without creating dozens of visuals?” The good news: yes, you can! And it’s cleaner than ever with field parameters grouped by category. In …
2025 Week 35 | Grouped Field Parameters in a Matrix Read More
Introduction When building reports, one of the most common requests I hear from users is: “Can I see the top three, top five, or top ten items without having to look at multiple visuals?” The good news: yes, you can! And it’s cleaner than ever with numeric range parameters in Power BI. In this week’s …
Introduction It’s good to be back again, and a bit sooner than last time! This time, we will be creating a visual using Deneb. Deneb has featured a lot in WoW, which I’m very grateful for, but I’ve yet to submit and exercise for it. As such, I wanted to try something that would help …
2025 Week 33 | Create a Circular Heatmap with Deneb Read More
Introduction This week, we’re cooking up something a little different – waffle charts! Your challenge is to build a report that compares actual sales to a dynamic monthly target and visualizes progress in a clean, impactful way. Requirements Get and Prepare Data Start by downloading the CSV file provided. It contains 8 columns: ORDERNUMBER QUANTITYORDERED …
2025 Week 32 | Build a Waffle Chart using Core Visuals Read More
Introduction This week we’re challenging you to recreate a single visual element from one of the winning reports from the #PBI10 dataviz championship. The contest took place over the past month and there were four winners, so, you have four reports to choose from! The entries in this challenge represent a wide range of visual styles, analysis, …
Introduction Happy Workout Wednesday, data fam! This week, we’re taking bar charts to the next level—with built-in scales that visually speak for themselves! We all love a good bar chart, but sometimes you want to show progress toward a goal or segment values into performance zones – without extra visuals, DAX trickery, or custom backgrounds. Just …
2025 Week 30 | Power BI: Bar chart with built-in scales 📏 Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a special tooltip.It will include flags, and some special custom formatting. Want to learn, how to create a tooltip like this?Let’s do it! Requirements Download the sample data from the Data World Website – part 1 and part 2. [Note: Data.World requires you to create a …
Introduction This week we’re challenging you to join the official Power BI 10th birthday celebration! Microsoft is celebrating by hosting a dataviz contest, and we’d love to see you join! You can find all of the details on the Fabric/Power BI Community Site, and we’ll paraphrase the challenge here below. Contest Timeline Start Date: Tuesday, …
