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2025 Week 32 | Build a Waffle Chart using Core Visuals

Introduction This week, we’re cooking up something a little different – waffle charts! Your challenge is to build a report that compares actual sales to a dynamic monthly target and visualizes progress in a clean, impactful way. Requirements Get and Prepare Data Start by downloading the CSV file provided. It contains 8 columns: ORDERNUMBER QUANTITYORDERED […]

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Screenshot of Aanor's winning Power BI report, which includes a birthday cake and a happy 10th birthday to Power BI

2025 Week 31 | Recreate a winning #PBI10 entry

Introduction This week we’re challenging you to recreate a single visual element from one of the winning reports from the #PBI10 dataviz championship. The contest took place over the past month and there were four winners, so, you have four reports to choose from! The entries in this challenge represent a wide range of visual styles, analysis,

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2025 Week 30 | Power BI: Bar chart with built-in scales ????

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

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2025 Week 29 | Next level tooltip

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

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2025 Week 28 | Join the #PBI10 Dataviz Contest

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,

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2025 Week 27 | Recreate This Wealth Infographic

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

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Screenshot of progress bars made in Power BI.

2025 Week 26 | Power BI: Progress Bars

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

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Screenshot of a box plot created using Power BI.

2025 Week 24 | Power BI: Core Visuals Box Plot

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

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2025 Week 23 | Power BI: Highlight on Hover with Deneb

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

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