Introduction For our second week of Workout Wednesday 2023 Power BI Edition, we are taking inspiration from a recent Washington Post interactive story titled “See just how bad a year it was for your retirement account — and why”. The article looks at the closing price of the S&P 500, comparing the value at the …
2023 Week 02 | Power BI: Create layered line/area charts with labels and annotations Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Workout Wednesday 2023, Power BI edition! If this is your first time joining us, we’re happy you’re here. The goal of this initiative is to help you build your Power BI skills. We provide the data and the instructions, and you build the visuals! We hope you have fun and learn a new …
2023 Week 01 | Power BI: Use DAX to control visual display Read More »
Introduction Can you believe it’s 2023 already? No me neither, but we have a cracking line up for this year that makes me excited to still be apart of the Workout Wednesday Team. If this is your first time here, Welcome to #WOW2023. The aim of this community initiative is to rebuild the visualisation using a …
#WOW2023 Week 1: Can you use Image Role & Dynamic Zone Visibility? Read More »
Introduction “Hot days, warm nights, beaches, backyard cricket and Christmas celebrations are all part of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.” This week we will be connecting to a public flickr photo gallery from the State Library of South Australia, to create an image carousel using a custom visual from AppSource. Requirements Power Query Connect to the …
Introduction What a year 2022 has been! For the last challenge of 2022 we’ll build some waffle charts showing % of sales by segment. Even though I knew the general principle of waffle charts, it was some good practice for me making this one. Hopefully it’ll be some helpful practice for you all as well. …
#WOW2022 | Week 52 | Can you create a waffle chart? Read More »
Introduction Me and my family love sitting down and watching Christmas movies during the holiday season! In this challenge we are going to be breaking down the words used in Christmas movie titles. Check out the word cloud that we are going to be creating below! Requirements Power Query In order to get this data …
Introduction I recently had this type of request at work – stop me if you’ve heard this before. We need to show the trend of [single or multiple measures] and we want to see it by these specific dimensions. Oh! And we also need to be able to filter by the same dimensions as well… …
#WOW2022 Week 51: Let’s show quarterly sales with end-user flexibility Read More »
Introduction Every year, Santa needs to prepare for Christmas day. There are so many gifts and so many children but also so little time. This means Santa often has to hurl gifts across long distances to save vital time. For this week’s challenge, we are creating a training game for Santa where he can set …
Introduction This challenge you are to recreate a pie chart with some interesting formatting. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Use Segment and Sales to divide the pie slices. Have a thin solid exterior with Segment labels on the outside. Have white space between the edge and the interior of the pie. Have a …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday 2022! This week we’re continuing our work with images and building a fun Holiday Song Picker using the Image Grid custom visual in Power BI! We’ll use data from Spotify to help select a song based on Artist, Tempo, or Key. If you’d like to follow along with the …
2022 Week 49 | Power BI: Build a Holiday Song Picker Read More »
