Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is purely dataviz – there is no data transformation involved. You have the pleasure of either recreating or making over the stunning sample report provided by the Power BI core visuals team. This report is beautiful to look at and was built to demonstrate some of the …
2024 Week 24 | Power BI: Get creative with the Power BI Core Visuals team Read More
Introduction Power BI does not offer a Venn Diagram option as a core visual. This is not surprising given there are not many uses for this kind of visualisation. However, most people can read and understand the meaning of a Venn Diagram when they see one. Venn Diagrams is they are useful to display overlaps …
Introduction When used with care, scatterplots can be used to create symbol maps using an equidistant projected map (or Geographic or Plate Carrée) as the plot background image. Attention will need to be paid to proportions and axis scales. More information on projection types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections Requirements Obtain the snowfall data from github Create new columns …
2024 Week 22 | Power BI: Approximate Binned Mapping with Scatterplots Read More
Introduction While you can’t directly populate a slicer with a measure, you can use a slicer to filter other visuals based upon measure amounts. That is what we are doing in this week’s challenge. In the report below, we have a budget analysis report. The report allows users to filter the projects table to projects …
2024 Week 21 | Power BI: Use Slicers to Filter a Visual Based Upon a Measure Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is for participants new to Power BI and/or new to data visualization. We’re building a report containing 2 charts, a table, and a slicer. My challenge to you is to design the report in a way that a) makes sense to business users and b) is …
2024 Week 20 | Power BI: Build your first report with Dynamics 365 Business Central Data Read More
Introduction In this week’s challenge, we are experimenting with Radial Plots using Line and Scatter Core Visuals. Radial Lollipop charts are an alternative to radar charts. Power BI does not have Polar Plots, only cartesian plots, so we will need to use trigonomic functions within DAX to calculate the cartesian X and Y position of points. Requirements …
2024 Week 19 | Power BI: Radial Plots using Line and Scatter Charts with trig functions Read More
Introduction Continuing on last week’s infographic theme, we are recreating an infographic from Visual Capitalist this week, this time showing average lifespan for different mammals. We will be using a scatterplot visual of your choice this week. I made two demo versions, one using the Deneb custom visual and one using the Enhanced Scatterplot custom …
2024 Week 18 | Power BI: Visualize Mammal Lifespan with a Scatterplot and Background Image Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re celebrating Earth Day (April 22) with a design challenge. You can do whatever your designer heart desires with this challenge. I’ve provided a sample, but this is just to get your creative juices flowing. Whatever you do, ensure that your design is accessible and that you’re …
2024 Week 17 | Power BI: Design an Earth Day Infographic Read More
Introduction In this week’s challenge, we are creating a timeline visual on a sine wave. You can use your creativity to break out the timelines into series, through conditional formatting, offsetting separate shapes, or create different shapes using different trigonomic functions. Alternatively, with small multiples. Requirements Obtain the data from Kaggle and/or Wikipedia Create a …
2024 Week 16 | Power BI: Timeline on a Sine Wave with Core Visuals Read More
Introduction Since I watched the solar eclipse from Texas this week, we have a solar theme. We are visualizing the sunrise time each day in 2024 to date. I’m keeping it simple with the line chart core visual, but you can use whatever visual you would like. Requirements 1. Retrieve the data from Data.World. 2. …
2024 Week 15 | Power BI: Visualize sunrise times with a line chart Read More
