Introduction Welcome to the Workout Wednesday Week 32! This week’s challenge will focus on how to create an advanced date slicer in the Power BI report. A user-friendly and modern-looking slicer to level up your dashboards. You can create your own designs, share them with colleagues and control the preview. To re-create, I am …
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by FiveThirtyEight’s Nobody had more style than Jay Wright created by Ryan Best For this week’s challenge we will be creating SVGs with shape elements that are coloured dynamically based on field values. Create your own SVG and add your own flair to this design. Requirements Obtain the source data …
Introduction Inspired by a Tableau Workout Wednesday from last year, we are going to make a Marimekko chart. A Marimekko chart, also known as a Mekko chart or mosaic plot, is used to visualize categorical data across two variables. Both axes use a percentage scale that determines the width or height of a bar. Think …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a line chart using the new smoothing feature that was released this month! This week’s challenge was inspired by Andy Kreibel’s Makeover Monday challenge. We’re exploring the disappearing sea ice in the Antarctic using a line chart, looking at the extent of sea ice in millions of …
2023 Week 30 | Power BI: Build a smooth line chart Read More
Introduction If you’re as old as I am, you might remember MacGyver. For eight-year-old me, he was simply the coolest person who ever lived: he was a brilliant thinker and could get out of any situation with a Swiss Army knife and whatever was lying around. These days, to “MacGyver something” is a homage to …
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by Bas. We are creating a Timeline Visual using the Line Chart and measure-driven data labels. For this project timeline, we will be adding a today line, highlighting completed milestones, and milestones that are off-track. We will be adding descriptors to the milestones and truncating the descriptors to a …
Introduction This week we are going to have some fun with Power Query to obtain data from a website that spans multiple pages and then visualize the data in a treemap. Treemaps are meant to display hierarchical data as a set of nested rectangles. They aren’t a great replacement for bar charts when minor differences …
2023 Week 27 | Power BI: Power Query Simple Pagination and a Treemap Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re exploring the new card visual that was released in preview this month. Key metrics are frequently displayed in reports, and in the past it took a combination of cards, images, and other visuals. Thanks to the new card visual, we now have more flexibility, options for …
2023 Week 26 | Power BI: Display metrics with the new card visual Read More
Introduction This week we are continuing our viz efforts inspired by the 1 dataset 100 visualizations project, presented by the Data Viz Project. Last week, Meagan challenged us to create as many visuals as possible using the Deneb custom visual available in Power BI AppSource. The week before, Shannon challenged us to make as many visuals as …
2023 Week 25 | Power BI: Bubble Chart Variants with Charticulator Read More
Introduction This week we are continuing our viz efforts inspired by the 1 dataset 100 visualizations project, presented by the Data Viz Project. Last week, Shannon challenged us to create as many visuals as possible using the core visuals available in Power BI. This week’s challenge is to create visuals using the Deneb custom visual. I have …
2023 Week 24 | Power BI: Visualize Change Between Two Points in Time with Deneb Read More
