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 »
Introduction Welcome to Week 21 of 2025! This report allows users to select a performance metric (e.g., Revenue) and compare its values across 2024 and 2023. It provides a flexible way to explore year-over-year changes and spot trends or anomalies through interactive visuals. Good luck! -Andrei Requirements Main Visual: Area Chart with Year-on-Year Comparison Green …
2025 Week 20 | Year-over-Year Selected Metric Trends Read More »
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a special three-way dumbbell chart! You may ask, if this is a fixed term? No – I just think that sometimes there are three values that need to be displayed. This is how it will look like – you can easily see that chocolate prices …
Introduction Hello everyone! This week we are looking at developing a ‘Skyline’ visual. Anyone outside of the construction industry may not have heard this term before, but it is kind of a combination of a stacked column visual and a kanban board. It is used in construction to show construction activities (workpacks) that …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a Control Chart. Control charts can be used to track a specific process measure – such as sales, defects, or processing time – over a period of time. A few common uses are: Manufacturing: Monitoring defect rates and equipment performance Healthcare: Tracking infection rates, patient …
