Introduction Welcome to Week 29 of 2025! This week’s challenge is all about bringing back a tried-and-true classic: the Gantt chart. Whether you’re mapping out project timelines or visualizing task dependencies, this is your chance to put a clean, modern spin on one of the original BI visuals. Build something in Sigma that’s as functional …
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by a question from a colleague. They were looking for ideas for how to manage a chart with multiple lines and mulitple metrics. My colleague started with the idea of highlighting a single line in each chart, to show how the company compared to its competitors – a simple …
Introduction This week we’re challenging you to join the official Power BI 10th birthday celebration! Microsoft is celebrating by hosting a dataviz contest, and we’d love to see you join! You can find all of the details on the Fabric/Power BI Community Site, and we’ll paraphrase the challenge here below. Contest Timeline Start Date: Tuesday, …
Introduction Welcome to Week 28 of 2025! This week, we’re going to practice a newer feature of Sigma: Custom Context Menu Options. When combined with a series of actions, these options can really beef up your data application, allowing you to guide the user to new insights more easily than simply drilling down. Good luck! …
Introduction With the release of Tableau 2025.2, it’s time to test out its powerful new capabilities! This week, we’re tackling the new Dynamic Color Range feature using data from Japan’s House of Councillors elections. The basic requirements cover the fundamentals. For the bonus, we’ll address a practical issue you’ll almost certainly encounter when you try …
#WOW2025 | Week 28 | Can you use Dynamic Color Ranges? Read More »
Introduction As we all prepare ourselves (and our dogs) for this weekend in the US, let’s be careful out there. I’ve been on a bit of a kick of perusing government websites for data lately, and I’ve been surprised at how easy it is to pull data on a number of topics. This week, I’m …
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Introduction How are you using generative AI these days? It’s definitely one of the hottest topics in the Data/BI world right now.I invite you to try using generative AI as part of the challenge. Regular expressions (Regex) are super powerful when working with text data. But let’s be honest – Regex can be difficult and …
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Introduction Recreating visuals you find online helps you build visual design skills and find workarounds to common problems or feature gaps in Power BI. This week, we are recreating this infographic from Visual Capitalist about the change in global wealth. The original is shown below, followed by my version in Power BI. Requirements Create a …
Can you create a custom context menu? Introduction Last time, we explored how modals can unlock dynamic, focused storytelling in your Sigma dashboards. This week, we’re taking it one step further by pairing modals with Custom Context Menus — a powerful new (beta) feature in Sigma. Context menus let you embed right-click actions directly into …
Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This week on Workout Wednesday, I’m excited to be back with a fresh challenge and it’s all about progress bars! No custom visuals. No add-ons. Just creativity and some Power BI magic. Why Progress Bars? Progress bars are a great visual tool used to represent progress toward a goal/target …
