Introduction With the introduction of Fabric Apps at the Build conference this week, Fabric now natively supports visualization libraries like Vega, Vega-Lite, and. D3.js. In celebration, we are doing a Vega-Lite challenge. This week we are making a wind vector map. This map shows how wind speed and direction change across a region, using colors […]
2026 Week 22 | Power BI: Create a Wind Vector Map Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump
2026 Week 21 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 4 Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump
2026 Week 20 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 3 Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump
2026 Week 19 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 2 Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump
2026 Week 18 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 1 Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Inspired by a previous Tableau challenge, we are making a double-sided stem-and-leaf plot, but we are using a different dataset and showing the observed petal length of two species of iris. A stem-and-leaf plot displays numerical data by splitting each value into a “stem” (leading digit) and a “leaf” (trailing digit), arranging them so
2026 Week 17 | Power BI: Create a Double-Sided Stem-and-Leaf Plot Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week, we are making a Power BI version of a previous Tableau challenge by Donna Coles. We are making small multiple spiral charts, also called satellite charts. Satellite charts can be used to show percentages when values exceed 100%. Rather than creating one circle like a donut chart, the line spirals out to
2026 Week 16 | Power BI: Recreate the Tableau Satellite Chart Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction In this week’s challenge we are exploring the new Power BI Theme that is in Preview : https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deep-dive-into-modern-visual-defaults-and-customizing-theme-improvements-preview/ The new theme comes with new chart defaults and additional Style Presets. The challenge is to set your own defaults by downloading the JSON Theme file and modifying it. You can use a
2026 Week 15 | Power BI: Exploring and Enhancing the new Theme Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we’re going to build everyone’s favorite Power BI visual, a table! Tables are often dismissed as boring or “not visual enough,” but they’re also one of the most powerful tools we have for making decisions – when they’re designed with intent. In this workout, we’ll start with a very simple table
2026 Week 14 | Power BI: Drive insights with a simple table Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I noticed this map from Visual Capitalist the other day. I like the idea of showing elevation using height, but since it’s a state average, it seems weird to show the spacial area of the state. I decided to try to make a tile map with the same information. While we could just use color
2026 Week 13 | Power BI: Tile Map with 3D Effect Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday