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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 28 | Sigma: Can you provide context?

Introduction Welcome to Week 28 of 2025! This week, we’re going to practice a newer feature of Sigma:  Custom Context Menu Options.  When combined with a series of actions, these options can really beef up your data application, allowing you to guide the user to new insights more easily than simply drilling down. Good luck! …

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#WOW2025 | Week 28 | Can you use Dynamic Color Ranges?

Introduction With the release of Tableau 2025.2, it’s time to test out its powerful new capabilities!  This week, we’re tackling the new Dynamic Color Range feature using data from Japan’s House of Councillors elections. The basic requirements cover the fundamentals. For the bonus, we’ll address a practical issue you’ll almost certainly encounter when you try …

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#WOW2025 | Week 27 | Let’s Practice Regex in Tableau with Generative AI

Introduction How are you using generative AI these days? It’s definitely one of the hottest topics in the Data/BI world right now.I invite you to try using generative AI as part of the challenge. Regular expressions (Regex) are super powerful when working with text data. But let’s be honest – Regex can be difficult and …

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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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#WOW2025 Week 26: Can you create this seemingly simple line chart?

Introduction This may seem like a seeming normal line and area chart but I said “Why Tableau” numerous times when trying to create it.You want to be able to see the Top X customers per Quarter and what their percentage of total sales is. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 800×800 1 …

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