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 …
2025 Week 7 | Power BI: Create a tree map organized into columns Read More
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 …
2025 Week 6 | Power BI: Can you embed charts from Web? Read More
Introduction There are times where we want to compare categorical data with a total, perhaps an average. And sometimes we don’t want to see that total at the bottom of a table. So this week we are creating a bar chart that contains a “total average” bar. We want the bar chart sorted descending by …
2025 Week 5 | Power BI: Add an All Category to a Bar Chart Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re having fun with the Deneb custom visual and learning from another one of our fabulous Power BI community members, Ying Fu. Ying has been sharing on LinkedIn and I’ve had so much fun exploring their GitHub repo. Today we’re using a rotatable globe to look at Chinese migration abroad. Ying …
2025 Week 4 | Power BI: Create a Rotatable Globe with Deneb by Ying Fu Read More
Introduction Welcome to week 3 of 2025 and this challenge we will be dipping our toes into Vega, a lower-level language than vega-lite. This challenge is ideally suited to those that have dabbled in vega-lite – but don’t worry if you want to try your hand – there are a few templates to help get …
Introduction It’s cold and snowy in many places in the United States this week. So we are making an infographic to remind people about ice safety. It’s important to check that ice can support the weight of your desired outdoor activity, so you won’t fall through or harm the area. Let’s use Power BI to …
2025 Week 2 | Power BI: Ice Thickness Infographic with Core Visuals Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday and welcome to 2025! This year marks Workout Wednesday‘s 9th year as a community initiative, and the Power BI team is entering our 5th year! In 2025, we plan to both continue and expand our efforts, which we can’t do without you, dear reader! How to get involved Volunteer as a …
2025 Week 1 | Power BI: Happy New Year! Looking for contributors! Read More
Introduction Happy Holidays and Happy New Year folks! The last dataviz challenge for 2024 and we will be creating a Christmas Family Feud game with the new Text Filters in preview – don’t forget to ensure these are enabled before participating in the challenge. Utilize as many filters as you like and prepare some conditional …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week, we’re shining a spotlight on an incredible solution shared by community member Valerie Junk. It’s always inspiring to see how ideas ripple through the community—Valerie’s post was sparked by none other than Nikola Ilic, a powerhouse of creativity and insight in our space. I’m continuing my theme of community gratitude, …
2024 Week 51 | Power BI: Highlight Data with a Slicer by Valerie Junk Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re wishing everyone a very happy holiday season. Join us as we celebrate with a straightforward challenge, embedding a video in a Power BI report using the HTML Content custom visual. Requirements Create a custom image that you’ll use as your landing page. Create a custom video that you’d …
2024 Week 50 | Power BI: Happy Holidays! Embed a video in a Power BI report Read More
