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2025 Week 8 | Power BI: Join the Power BI DataViz World Championships Competition!

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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re sharing an exciting announcement and inviting you to participate in the first ever Power BI Data Visualization World Championships! Workout Wednesday is collaborating with Microsoft and our very own Meagan and Kerry are judging the Grand Finale in Las Vegas! Requirements You can find the complete challenge details on …

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#WOW2025 | Week 8 | Can you display a ratio and a volume on the same chart?

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Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by a new guest coach, Kieran Adair. Kieran lives in Australia and has been working with Tableau for several years. He has been a long-time fan of Workout Wednesday and recently reached out to me with an idea for a challenge, which I thought you all might …

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2025 Week 7 | Power BI: Create a tree map organized into columns

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Introduction The January 2025 update of Power BI Desktop brought us some enhancements to the tree map visual, including 3 new tiling methods and options for spacing between groups and nodes. So this week we are trying out those features to make a tree map organized into columns.  Requirements Download the “Regional Sales Sample.pbix” file …

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2025 Week 07 | Sigma: Dynamic Switching and Custom Sorting

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Introduction Welcome to week 6! This week, we’re looking deeper into dynamic switching. I’ve liked creating elements that dynamically change the metric or the dimension, but I ran into an issue when I also needed to have a custom sort order for one of the dynamic dimensions. I hope this helps you solve some edge …

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WOW2025 | Week 7 | Can you Manually Color a Highlight Table?

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Introduction I’m honored to present another challenge as a WOW coach this year.Being a coach last year was a great learning experience. It made me rethink whether my approach was truly the best and if the content was genuinely valuable for WOW participants.I’m excited to continue this journey and thankful for the chance to contribute …

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2025 Week 6 | Power BI: Can you embed charts from Web?

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Introduction Welcome to week 6 of Workout Wednesday 2025. In this week’s challenge we will be exploring other charting options used across the web and how these can be embedded into Power BI Desktop. Using publicly accessible charts and data, we will utilise the HTML content visual to embed interactive charts within iFrames. The examples …

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#WOW2025 | Week 6 | Can You Adjust Dashboard Design by Filter?

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Introduction I am truly honored to continue serving as your coach and supporting your learning this year.My first challenge in 2025 is about an exploratory dashboard. Have you ever created a dashboard that allows users to explore data step by step, from an overview to detailed information?In many cases, this can be achieved using filters …

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2025 Week 5 | Power BI: Add an All Category to a Bar Chart

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Introduction There are times where we want to compare categorical data with a total, perhaps an average. And sometimes we don’t want to see that total at the bottom of a table. So this week we are creating a bar chart that contains a “total average” bar. We want the bar chart sorted descending by …

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