Introduction
Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! I’m nearing the end of my 4th year contributing to this incredible initiative, and quite honestly, I am running out of ideas! This week I went to the Fabric Data Stories Gallery to look at reports that have inspired me, and I was reminded of this incredible report that Jason Thomas shared with us back in 2018!
Industry leaders, the Financial Times Graphics team created the Visual Vocabulary poster to help all of us make better chart choices. The dataviz community took this and ran with it, and I’ve used this more than once in my career to help people understand what these tools can do (and to practice)!
The visionary Andy Kriebel created the interactive Tableau Edition of the Visual Vocabulary and wrote a great blog post about it. Jason, aka SQLJason, followed suit and did the same in Power BI!
Today, I challenge you to try your hand at building a few of the visuals in Jason’s report that either: you don’t use often or haven’t built before!
Requirements
Get data and build visuals
Use data that means something to you! You can manually add small tables to Power BI desktop by using the Enter Data feature or bring in data from external sources.
If you’re feeling adventurous, try out the R and Python visuals!
Share
After you finish your workout, share on Twitter or LinkedIn using the hashtags #WOW2024 and #PowerBI, and tag @MMarie, @shan_gsd, @KerryKolosko.
Also make sure to fill out the Submission Tracker so that we can count you as a participant this week in order to track our participation throughout the year.
Solution
Solution File available for download on Jason’s blog.