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2023 Week 42 | Power BI: Add value to tables with SVGs

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re adding value to tables using SVG images! I was inspired by Sean Miller’s Week 16 Tableau challenge, and thought we could re-create this in Power BI. In this challenge, you’ll use various techniques to enhance the presentation of data within your Power BI table visual. These techniques include utilizing …

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#WOW2023 Week 42 | Can you proportionally brush from multi-selection?

Introduction This week’s challenge is another inspired by my everyday work. As we launch new features, we look at how different segments of users engage with them. We wanted a smooth way to click into the segment combinations that were of interest, without having to go back to the top to change a bunch of …

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#WOW2023 | Week 41 | Can you build a flexible tabular display?

Introduction So my week has rolled around again, and yet again the inspiration for this week comes from this viz by Sam Parsons – Man! That guy is good!!  This week I’m asking you all to recreate a tabular display. It’s a common request from users to just ”show me all the numbers”, while we …

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2023 Week 40 | Interactive Rolodex for Large Data Viewing

Introduction Hello and welcome to the week 40 CRMA challenge! The instructions are written assuming you already have a dev org with Accounts and Contacts loaded.  If you need to spin up a new org with data, see the link below.  This week we are creating a interactive table to search/sort Customers and Accounts by …

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2023 Week 40 | Power BI: Bar chart label bonanza

Introduction Last week’s workout caused some healthy discussion about bar chart labeling preferences and best practices. This week we will look at other ways to implement space saving labels while also showing the data labels for the each bar in a bar chart.  The report shown below demonstrates 4 ways to implement bar chart labels …

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#WOW2023 | Week 39 | Target Achievement Report (Guest)

Introduction Only X months/ a year later, Val is back as a guest coach with another challenge.And if you remember #WOW2022 W35, you know that Val loves a good table! Anicely formatted table, if possible. A table filled with table calcs – even better.This week’s WOW challenges you to create a dynamic tidy-looking table showinga …

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2023 Week 39 | Power BI: Bar chart custom labels

Introduction This week we’re revisiting Meagan’s challenge where we built a bar chart with long labels. We’re going to use a trick recently unveiled by Bas (@howtopowerbi on Twitter) to create custom labels for bar charts. If you have long labels in your bar chart, they may be truncated depending on the size of the …

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