Introduction If you’re as old as I am, you might remember MacGyver. For eight-year-old me, he was simply the coolest person who ever lived: he was a brilliant thinker and could get out of any situation with a Swiss Army knife and whatever was lying around. These days, to “MacGyver something” is a homage to …
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by Bas. We are creating a Timeline Visual using the Line Chart and measure-driven data labels. For this project timeline, we will be adding a today line, highlighting completed milestones, and milestones that are off-track. We will be adding descriptors to the milestones and truncating the descriptors to a …
Introduction This week we are going to have some fun with Power Query to obtain data from a website that spans multiple pages and then visualize the data in a treemap. Treemaps are meant to display hierarchical data as a set of nested rectangles. They aren’t a great replacement for bar charts when minor differences …
2023 Week 27 | Power BI: Power Query Simple Pagination and a Treemap Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re exploring the new card visual that was released in preview this month. Key metrics are frequently displayed in reports, and in the past it took a combination of cards, images, and other visuals. Thanks to the new card visual, we now have more flexibility, options for …
2023 Week 26 | Power BI: Display metrics with the new card visual Read More
Introduction This week we are continuing our viz efforts inspired by the 1 dataset 100 visualizations project, presented by the Data Viz Project. Last week, Meagan challenged us to create as many visuals as possible using the Deneb custom visual available in Power BI AppSource. The week before, Shannon challenged us to make as many visuals as …
2023 Week 25 | Power BI: Bubble Chart Variants with Charticulator Read More
Introduction This week we are continuing our viz efforts inspired by the 1 dataset 100 visualizations project, presented by the Data Viz Project. Last week, Shannon challenged us to create as many visuals as possible using the core visuals available in Power BI. This week’s challenge is to create visuals using the Deneb custom visual. I have …
2023 Week 24 | Power BI: Visualize Change Between Two Points in Time with Deneb Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s inspiration comes from the incredibly cool 1 dataset 100 visualizations project, presented by the Data Viz Project. The basic premise of the 1 dataset 100 visualizations project is that the team created 100 visualizations using a single, simple dataset. In today’s exercise, we challenge you to re-create as many of …
Introduction This week’s challenge uses Deneb custom visual to create a jittered scatter with inverted axis plus a bubble plot with labels. Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from Australian Bureau of Meteorology Website Model and load data Power BI Desktop Option 1: Obtain Deneb Custom Visual from AppSource Create a Scatter Chart with point …
2023 Week 22 | Power BI: Inverted Jittered Scatter Read More
Introduction This week, we’re building on Shannon’s theme from Week 17 2022 by creating a custom Power BI theme–with a twist! Instead of manually selecting colors, this week you’ll use OpenAI’s free version of ChatGPT (or your Large Language Model (LLM) of choice) to create a theme. You’re in control of your prompts, and …
2023 Week 21 | Power BI: Create a Theme – With a Twist! Read More
Introduction For this Workout Wednesday, we are putting a Power BI spin on a Tableau viz created by Luke Stanke and Spencer Bauke for their Workout Wednesday 2023 Week 14. While we could probably match nearly exactly to the original Tableau viz by using Deneb in Power BI, I wanted to see what I could …
2023 Week 20 | Power BI: Remake of Tableau Length of Baseball Games Read More
