Introduction Happy Workout Wednesday, data fam! This week, we’re taking bar charts to the next level—with built-in scales that visually speak for themselves! We all love a good bar chart, but sometimes you want to show progress toward a goal or segment values into performance zones – without extra visuals, DAX trickery, or custom backgrounds. Just …
2025 Week 30 | Power BI: Bar chart with built-in scales 📏 Read More »
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a special tooltip.It will include flags, and some special custom formatting. Want to learn, how to create a tooltip like this?Let’s do it! Requirements Download the sample data from the Data World Website – part 1 and part 2. [Note: Data.World requires you to create a …
Introduction This week we’re challenging you to join the official Power BI 10th birthday celebration! Microsoft is celebrating by hosting a dataviz contest, and we’d love to see you join! You can find all of the details on the Fabric/Power BI Community Site, and we’ll paraphrase the challenge here below. Contest Timeline Start Date: Tuesday, …
Introduction Recreating visuals you find online helps you build visual design skills and find workarounds to common problems or feature gaps in Power BI. This week, we are recreating this infographic from Visual Capitalist about the change in global wealth. The original is shown below, followed by my version in Power BI. Requirements Create a …
Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This week on Workout Wednesday, I’m excited to be back with a fresh challenge and it’s all about progress bars! No custom visuals. No add-ons. Just creativity and some Power BI magic. Why Progress Bars? Progress bars are a great visual tool used to represent progress toward a goal/target …
Introduction This challenge builds upon my last challenge, reusing much of the same logic. Both of them are based on real-world solutions for a client of mine. In the client scenario, we had used a Sankey chart to show whether customer accounts would grow or shrink over time. This worked great at first to show …
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 …
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 …
2025 Week 23 | Power BI: Highlight on Hover with Deneb Read More »
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 …
2025 Week 22 | Power BI: Create a lollipop chart Read More »
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 …
2025 Week 21 | Power BI: Scatterplot / Timeseries Smoothing Read More »
