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 …
2025 Week 12 | Power BI: Animated Progress Bar with Edward Charles Read More
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 …
2025 Week 11 | Power BI: Can you create a (story) arc diagram with core visuals? Read More
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 …
2025 Week 10 | Power BI: Line Chart with dynamic formatting Read More
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 …
2025 Week 9 | Power BI: From stacked bar chart to bullet chart Read More
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 …
2025 Week 8 | Power BI: Join the Power BI DataViz World Championships Competition! Read More
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 …
