Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is all about bringing your data to life with animation! It was inspired by a LinkedIn post from Edward Charles, where he used an SVG measure and the new card visual to create an animated progress bar. Progress bars can be a great way to visually track goals, completion […]
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Introduction Welcome to Week 12 of 2025! If you’ve been developing workbooks for long enough, you’ve likely seen end users request a large amount of filters on a single page. That can take a ton of real estate. How do you balance the flexibility of a ton of controls with the overall usability of your
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Introduction Starting the community month with a Challenge from a Data School Consultant Abby Poon. She came to me with a puzzle and we solved it together. The idea is you want to be able to see how the Top X customers are changing over the last 3 years (dynamically). Each year the top X
Introduction Welcome to week 11 of Workout Wednesday 2025. This week’s challenge is to recreate the Dr Who Villain story arc’s visual depicted below showing the timelines of the first and last season of Villain appearances or, to challenge you to create your own data visualisation about Dr Who Villains. Perhaps you will recreate The
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Introduction Welcome to week 11! This week, Sigma’s hosting it’s Data Apps Conference which will feature a ton of valuable information coming straight from Sigma’s team and community experts. The conference is Thursday, March 13, 2025 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET Even on conference week, Sigma is still pushing out excellent new features. Our challenge
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Introduction Cohort analysis is always fun to try and figure out how to show enough information without dumping every cohort onto a chart. This challenge looks at cohorts of when a first purchase was made (Superstore data), and subsequent sales to those customers. Are there certain cohorts that continually spend more money? Do certain cohorts
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Introduction This week is a guest post from Jess Batten! Welcome to Week 10! Have you ever wanted to compare different levels within a data set? How does state performance compare to the whole region? What about if you then want to compare city performance to the state? This week we’re going to try to
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Introduction Hi to everybody! I am so happy to be among the new contributors for Workout Wednesday. I believe these kinds of challenges bring tremendous value to everyone who tries something new on a regular basis—you’ll learn so much! We will look at the consumer price index for chocolate in the Euro region. As you
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Introduction For this week’s challenge, we’re looking at data from the English Premier League (EPL) again ( this may well be a theme for me this year 🙂 ). The main focus for this challenge is ranking; specifically ranking based on multiple measures. In the EPL, as I’m sure there are with other sports, teams
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Introduction I’m incredibly honored to be part of this amazing group of Power BI enthusiasts, and I couldn’t be more excited to share my very first Workout Wednesday challenge with you all! Have you ever looked at a visualization and thought, there has to be a better way to present this data? This week, we’re
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