Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by an XKCD comic and Kamala Harris’ love of Venn diagrams. Leveraging a prior challenge by Phil Seamark, this challenge we are going to apply SVG filters to make the shapes appear hand drawn XKCD style, and import XKCD font via the HTML content visual. XKCD font can be …
Introduction This week, we are recreating a previous Tableau workout in Power BI in which we build a segmented bar chart that contains a bar for the total amount followed by a bar that shows a categorical breakdown of that amount. This challenge involves a bit of data transformation as well as some more advanced …
2024 Week 29 | Power BI: Remake of a Tableau Segmented Bar Chart Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is purely dataviz – there is no data transformation involved. A huge thanks to our friend and colleague Zoe Douglas for providing us with a beautiful and fun report to recreate. Find the data and instructions to complete the challenge below, and as always, have fun! Requirements …
2024 Week 28 | Power BI: Create custom navigation with Zoe Douglas Read More
Introduction The challenge for this week is to first build a scatter plot of fertility vs life expectancy of different countries. However, this will not just be for a single year, but will contain information across many years, making it possible to slide the year and see how all the bubbles move. The key challenge …
2024 Week 27 | Power BI: Scatter plot showing the path of selected data points Read More
Introduction Power BI reports have a theme that specifies the default colors, fonts, and visual styles. In Power BI Desktop, you can choose to use a built-in theme, start with a built-in theme and customize it, or create your own theme. In addition to the primary data colors, we can also define sentiment colors and divergent …
2024 Week 26 | Power BI: Reference Theme Sentiment Colors in DAX Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge looks to create a time brush slicer. The time brush slicer can be created with Deneb or another custom visual. Requirements Obtain the data from a previous challenge Model data Option A Import Timbrush Slicer and Small Multiple Custom Visual Create a time brush slicer Create a line chart with small …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is purely dataviz – there is no data transformation involved. You have the pleasure of either recreating or making over the stunning sample report provided by the Power BI core visuals team. This report is beautiful to look at and was built to demonstrate some of the …
2024 Week 24 | Power BI: Get creative with the Power BI Core Visuals team Read More
Introduction Power BI does not offer a Venn Diagram option as a core visual. This is not surprising given there are not many uses for this kind of visualisation. However, most people can read and understand the meaning of a Venn Diagram when they see one. Venn Diagrams is they are useful to display overlaps …
Introduction When used with care, scatterplots can be used to create symbol maps using an equidistant projected map (or Geographic or Plate Carrée) as the plot background image. Attention will need to be paid to proportions and axis scales. More information on projection types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections Requirements Obtain the snowfall data from github Create new columns …
2024 Week 22 | Power BI: Approximate Binned Mapping with Scatterplots Read More
Introduction While you can’t directly populate a slicer with a measure, you can use a slicer to filter other visuals based upon measure amounts. That is what we are doing in this week’s challenge. In the report below, we have a budget analysis report. The report allows users to filter the projects table to projects …
2024 Week 21 | Power BI: Use Slicers to Filter a Visual Based Upon a Measure Read More
