It’s hard to believe that 2022 is coming to an end here before long! The second year of #PowerBI #WorkoutWednesday has been a great one. Thank you to everyone who has been a participant, a guest host, or interacted with our challenges in some way – you all are the reason why we do this! …
Introduction Every year, Santa needs to prepare for Christmas day. There are so many gifts and so many children but also so little time. This means Santa often has to hurl gifts across long distances to save vital time. For this week’s challenge, we are creating a training game for Santa where he can set …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday 2022! This week we’re continuing our work with images and building a fun Holiday Song Picker using the Image Grid custom visual in Power BI! We’ll use data from Spotify to help select a song based on Artist, Tempo, or Key. If you’d like to follow along with the …
2022 Week 49 | Power BI: Build a Holiday Song Picker Read More
Introduction While we looked at SVG measures in a matrix in week 20, we are taking a different approach this week. SVG measures can be used in other visuals, and they can be designed to include links. In the below Power BI report, I’ve got 4 visuals populated by SVG measures. Initially, all 4 visuals show …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re going to visualize Twitter data using Twitter’s API to retrieve tweets that have been made about Workout Wednesday! You have complete creative license to visualize the data in any way that you see fit. If you have a Power BI premium license, I encourage you to …
Introduction During week 42’s community month challenge brought to us by Thys van der Westhuizen – Thys built on my week 37 challenge – My First Deneb. For that week’s challenge I built out three basic bar charts using Deneb visuals, and subsequently, Thys continued to build a few more amazing visuals in his challenge. …
Introduction Another Deneb visual this week – creating a custom Ribbon Chart. This ribbon chart takes on a slightly different form than the ribbon charts you may be used to. This ribbon chart is focused on highlighting the change in rank and proportion of response types between the first and last dates of a …
Introduction This week, our challenge is to calculate customer lifetime value by quarter using DAX. This is an advanced challenge so buckle up! As I was working on my challenge for week 44, I stumbled upon the drafted challenge for Tableau on the same week. The Tableau challenge was… you guessed it… developing a chart …
Introduction Conditional formatting is a robust feature in Power BI that you can leverage to help users gain insights. Typically, we see conditional formatting applied to the table and matrix visuals. For example, you might apply a background color, font color, or icons to the values based on a set of rules. Conditional formatting of …
#WOW2022 W43: Advanced Formatting by Jeremy Anderson Read More
Introduction I was recently asked by Rob Saunders if I would like to assist with a #WorkoutWednesday PowerBI challenge. To be seen in the same crowd with Kerry, Shannon, Meagan, Spencer, and Rob is such an honour. Cue the onset of imposter syndrome. After that feeling passed, Rob and I decided to continue with the …
