2021 Week 11 | Power BI: Can you Turn a Ribbon Chart into a Bump Chart?
Power BI Conditional Formatting using Background Color, Font Color, and Icons
Workout Wednesday
2021 Week 11 | Tableau : Can you recreate the work of Hans Rosling?
Introduction This week I wanted to throw it back to an old classic chart by Hans Rosling, if you haven’t seen the TED talk I highly recommend watching it. Hans shows how fertility rate and life expectancy has changed over the years. With this example we are going to look at Income per GDP and …
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2021 Week 10 | Tableau: Can you build a must include filter?
Introduction This week’s challenge is pulled directly from a work challenge I encountered recently. The ask was to build a filtering system that would allow the user to initially filter data and then add a secondary requirement of inclusion. Using the Superstore data set, the functionality we wanted to achieve was: Allow user to filter …
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2021 Week 10 | Power BI: Violin Plot Custom Visual
Introduction Thanks for joining us for Week 10 of Workout Wednesday – Power BI Edition. This week our challenge is to use the Violin Plot custom visual. There are no dependencies on prior weeks for this workout, so feel free to jump right in. Custom visuals are additional visuals created by Microsoft and Microsoft partners …
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2021 Week 9: Can You Hide A Chart in the Map Layers?
Introduction So, I’m a little late for Mardi Gras – but that didn’t stop me from thinking about King Cake, a New Orleans tradition (with French roots) where a little plastic baby is put inside of a cake that is plastered with green, yellow, and purple frosting with tons of sprinkles. Anyone teeth hurt yet? …
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2021 Week 7 | Power BI: Conditional Formatting
Power BI Conditional Formatting using Background Color, Font Color, and Icons
2020 Week 7 | Tableau : Can you use Dashboard Extensions?
Introduction Features and functionality on using Tableau and Tableau Public are ever growing. I believe we as WOW have never done this particular object before. Did you know that Tableau has an Extension Gallery? But also did you know that some of the extensions work on Tableau Public? I never thought about using Extensions on …
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2021 Week 6 | Tableau: Can you build a Fancy Text Table?
Introduction This month I’ve decided to focus on something you’ve rarely ever seen from me – a good old fashioned text table. This challenge should be straightforward for users of all levels. And of course since I try to avoid plain text tables, this one has some fancy formatting thrown in for good measure. There …
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2021 Week 6 | Power BI: Long Labels
Introduction Thanks to everyone who has participated in the first 5 weeks of Workout Wednesday for Power BI. We have a new dataset again this week to help us explore some useful features that are not familiar to all users. This week we are focused on making sure labels in our visuals are readable and …
#WOW2021 W05: Can You Predict the Future?
Introduction For this week’s challenge, we wanted to hit two birds with one stone: try out a new feature from the Tableau 2020.4 and celebrate Black History Month with an interesting dataset on Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Predictions, table calculations, and parameter actions…oh my! Consider this a feature sampler, building on some previous …