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 …
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 …
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, …
2025 Week 16 | Power BI: Cards – NEXT Level | with emojis and variances label Read More
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 …
2025 Week 15 | Power BI: The 2025 DataViz World Champion has been crowned! Read More
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 …
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 …
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
