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2025 Week 41 | Sigma: Can You Make an Interactive Forecasting Tool?

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Can you build an interactive forecasting app? Introduction This week, we’re turning forecasting into action. Using Sigma’s RegressionSlope() and RegressionIntercept() functions, you’ll build a live forecasting app that projects future outcomes—and adjusts in real time. No Excel exports. No FORECAST() formulas. Just your dataset, an input table, and a few calculated fields to model linear, …

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#WOW2025 | Week 46 | Can you create a dynamically zooming map?

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Introduction I know what you’re thinking…”Kyle, we just did dynamically zooming maps a couple months ago!” And you’re right, we did. However, sometimes data is structured in a way we need to do some things differently. So we’re working on a different method for dynamically zooming this week, which doesn’t use spatial parameters. “But Kyle, why …

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2025 Week 46 | Power BI: Join a QuickViz Challenge

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Introduction This week we’re partnering with the Microsoft Fabric Community team to bring you a set of challenges that are taking place over the next month as a part of Fabric Data Days. Each week, they post a new mini-challenge, aimed at anyone looking to practice dataviz skills, explore new visuals, and engage with the …

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2025 Week 45 | Power BI: Create dynamic annotations

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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re creating a dynamic annotation slicer that highlights specific data points on a time series chart. Imagine you’re presenting monthly revenue trends to stakeholders who want to quickly assess performance against the typical baseline. Instead of manually pointing out values, you create an interactive chart where users …

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#WOW2025 | Week 44 | Can you build a satellite chart to represent values exceeding 100%?

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Introduction Some time ago the brilliant Sam Parsons, developed a “Satellite” or “Spiral” Chart as an alternative way to visualise a donut that exceeded 100%.https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sparsonsdataviz/viz/SpiralingSatelliteCharts/SpiralingSatelliteCharts. As with many things Sam comes up with, I always want to see if I can build it, and once again it’s a great excuse for a #WOW challenge. Back …

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2025 Week 44 | Power BI: Utilising HTML to create actual scale charts

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Introduction In this week’s challenge we are going to try to create a chart on rising sea levels where the y-scale of mm will display on screen in physical mm. You can try this with whichever custom visual you like, but the example laid out below will be for the utilisation of the HTML Content …

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2025 Week 43 | Turning Numbers into a Story of Movement

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Introduction Welcome to Week 43 of 2025! This visual was built to make change visible. The goal was not just to show numbers, but to tell a quick, visual story of how performance moves from one point to another. Each line represents a small comparison between two dates or periods. When the line is green, …

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