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2023 Week 48 | Power BI: Ring Chart

Introduction This week’s challenge uses a few layering techniques in the Deneb custom visual. Here you will be challenged to use multiple independent scales on a layered plot. Advanced users can concatenate total bars for extra credit! Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from Github Model and load data Power BI Desktop Obtain Deneb from …

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#WOW2023 | Week 48 | Can you add candlesticks to bar charts?

Introduction As we finish up Global Recognition Month, I’d like to introduce you to Shunta Nakajima (@Dandee_House), a BI Engineer from Japan who has been a regular participant in #WOW2023 challenges.  Over to you Shunta…. [JP] 私がWorkoutWednesdayを知ったのが2020年、それ以来約3年間多くのチャレンジに取り組み、非常にたくさんのことを学ぶことができました。WOWのおかげで、私のTableauスキルを向上させることができました。今回、ゲストとして私のチャレンジを紹介できることになり、非常にワクワクしています。 Kyle,どうもありがとう! さて、今回のチャレンジでは私の大好きなチャートタイプの1つである、棒グラフとローソクの組み合わせを題材にしました。 私が初めてこのチャートタイプを知ったのは、かつてこのWOWを立ち上げ、またもう一つの素晴らしいコミュニティイベントであるMakeoverMondayを最近まで主宰していたAndy KriebelさんのVizです。 彼の表現方法を一目見て「すごく良いな」と思い、私も自身が作るVizのいくつかに取り入れるようになりました。 このチャートタイプの作成方法について詳細を知りたい場合は、彼のYoutube動画 を参照ください。 また、チャレンジには私がWOWを通して学んだいくつかのテクニックも盛り込んでいます。 それでは楽しんでください! [EN] The first time I came across WorkoutWednesday was …

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The new button slicer used to filter a scatterplot

2023 Week 47 | Power BI: Use the New Button Slicer

Introduction The November 2023 release of Power BI Desktop includes the new button slicer visual. This visual can currently be used as a replacement for the original slicer visual when using tiles. There are more enhancements to come, but we already have a lot more control over the formatting of the slicer. We can add …

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#WOW2023 | Week 47 | Can you create a Monthly Driver Analysis dashboard?

Introduction As we continue Global Recognition Month here at WOW Towers, I’d like to introduce you to Norbert Borbás (@norbert_borbas), a data analyst from Hungary who has been on a mission this year to complete all the #WOW2023 challenges. He has received 4 Viz of the Day awards, and was recognised as ‘one to watch’ …

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2023 Week 46 | Power BI: RFM Analysis

Introduction This week for Workout Wednesday we are performing RFM (recency, frequency and monetary value) analysis. RFM Analysis is a marketing technique used to quantitatively rank and group customers based on the recency, frequency and monetary total of their recent transactions. A score of 1 to 5 is assigned for each of the three main factors. …

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#WOW2023 | 46 | Dynamic Indexed Bars and Measures

Introduction As you know, we’re in the middle of Diversity Month here at #WOW2023 and I’m excited to welcome Ervin Vinzon. Ervin hails from Philippines and is a Tableau User Group Ambassador. He is also an avid #WOW2023 participant. We are honored to have his challenge featured this week.  Hey there, I’m Ervin Vinzon, leading …

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2023 Week 45 | Power BI: Create a dumbbell chart with Deneb

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re creating a dumbbell chart to compare 2 sets of values using Deneb! If this is your first time using Deneb I highly recommend you play around with either the Vega or Vega-lite languages in the online editor, where you can load the code from examples, amend it, …

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#WOW2023 | Week 45 | Help me choose my wine

Introduction This month the Workout Wednesday team wanted to invite guest coaches from around the world to create some challenges that could help highlight our growing global community.It’s my honour to introduce this week’s guest coach, Flávio Matos. Flávio is a colleague of mine at the Data School and has been working with Tableau for …

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2023 Week 44 | Reusable Components, Designer and Themes

Introduction This week we will be expanding on a previous post by Preena in week 34.  If you did not already complete the wk 34 lesson, you will want to create the Design Style Guide Templated App in your dev org.  This prebuilt app offers valuable insights to best design principles and UX features.  Of …

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2023 Week 44 | Power BI: Dynamic Text Boxes

Introduction For this week’s challenge, we will be creating dynamic text boxes to introduce our visuals and tell a story around our data. This is differentiated from the “smart narrative” visual in that we will customize the text and measures that we display to create our own narrative. In the example below, you’ll notice that …

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