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2025 Week 4 | Power BI: Create a Rotatable Globe with Deneb by Ying Fu

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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re having fun with the Deneb custom visual and learning from another one of our fabulous Power BI community members, Ying Fu. Ying has been sharing on LinkedIn and I’ve had so much fun exploring their GitHub repo. Today we’re using a rotatable globe to look at Chinese migration abroad. Ying …

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Radial Plots

2024 Week 19 | Power BI: Radial Plots using Line and Scatter Charts with trig functions

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Introduction In this week’s challenge, we are experimenting with Radial Plots using Line and Scatter Core Visuals. Radial Lollipop charts are an alternative to radar charts. Power BI does not have Polar Plots, only cartesian plots, so we will need to use trigonomic functions within DAX to calculate the cartesian X and Y position of points. Requirements …

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2024 Week 2 | Power BI: Soda Pop Sales in a Jittered Column Chart

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Introduction This week we have our first guest post of 2024! Today’s challenge comes from Imran Haq (LinkedIn, X). I have always admired his Deneb skills, so I’m excited to share this report with you today. We are making a jittered column chart with Deneb. The theme of soda (or pop, coke, or whatever you …

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ring chart

2023 Week 48 | Power BI: Ring Chart

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Introduction This week’s challenge uses a few layering techniques in the Deneb custom visual. Here you will be challenged to use multiple independent scales on a layered plot. Advanced users can concatenate total bars for extra credit! Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from Github Model and load data Power BI Desktop Obtain Deneb from …

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2023 Week 44: Can you build an UpSet Plot with just One Calculated Field?

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Introduction November is a special month. Workout Wednesday is viewed by thousands of people each week across the globe. And this month we are highlighting those across the world who have great ideas and concepts to share with others. First up is Venkatesh Iyer. Its his second time hosting this year, but if you’ve read any of …

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2023 Week 38: Can you build a drunken tree chart?

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Introduction I joined the Workout Wednesday crew in 2018. Since then I’ve provided–from what I can count–64 challenges. And I’ve never been short of real-life challenges. In my job, I’ve encountered so many problems that I could take apart and provide to the community without exposing who my customers were at the time. Many of …

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SVG Pictrogram

2023 Week 32 | Power BI: SVG Pictogram

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Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by FiveThirtyEight’s Nobody had more style than Jay Wright created by Ryan Best For this week’s challenge we will be creating SVGs with shape elements that are coloured dynamically based on field values. Create your own SVG and add your own flair to this design. Requirements Obtain the source data …

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