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2025 Week 24 | Power BI: Core Visuals Box Plot

Introduction It’s nice to be invited back by the team, and thanks for having me! While it’s tempting for me to think of something for you explore with the Deneb or HTML Content custom visuals (and I’d still encourage that!), I’d like to continue some of the other threads we’ve recently seen around what we …

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2025 Week 23 | Power BI: Highlight on Hover with Deneb

Introduction What do you want to highlight on hover? Practice with the Deneb Custom Visual. This week’s challenge was created using the Deneb custom visual in Power BI. I was inspired by the many examples on the Vega-Lite website. The chart displays Sales and Profit grouped by country and segment, based on a sample Power …

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2025 Week 22 | Power BI: Create a lollipop chart

Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This is my first time creating a Power BI Workout Wednesday exercise, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share it with you all! Thank you for being part of my learning and teaching journey. Let’s grow together! Have you ever wanted to create a Lollipop Chart in Power BI …

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2025 Week 21 | Power BI: Scatterplot / Timeseries Smoothing

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

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

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

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

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!

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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