Introduction Have you ever worked with multiple stakeholders – who all want a dashboard about the same topic – but want different sets of data displayed? To reduce duplication of dashboards but to also ensure we can provide the best user experience we can provide an option for them to pick and choose which fields …
Introduction This week’s challenge is a little SVG fun. Recent Power BI Desktop changes have allowed even further width and height adjustments for images in matrix visuals. So we will be extending this by making a bar chart of chocolate bars. Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from 2023-week-11 challenge or; Obtain the dataset from …
Introduction This week we are getting a bit artistic and taking inspiration from a visual that was recently published by Robin Rohwer on Twitter. She created a connected scatterplot that uses a flower emoji to represent each point. I thought her visual was wonderful, so I set out to create something like it in Power …
2023 Week 13 | Power BI: Create a connected scatterplot with image markers Read More »
Introduction This week we are making a table with microcharts (sparklines). Power BI does offer built-in sparklines, but sometimes we want formatting options not available with the defaults. Our challenge this week uses both the built-in sparklines and custom SVG images in a table. Requirements Create a custom column with the following logic: If the …
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Introduction Another Deneb visual this week – creating a custom Ribbon Chart. This ribbon chart takes on a slightly different form than the ribbon charts you may be used to. This ribbon chart is focused on highlighting the change in rank and proportion of response types between the first and last dates of a …
2022 Week 45 | Power BI: Ribbon Chart (Advanced) Read More »
Every needed to visualize a % of total across two dimensions & measures? Then the Marrimeko chart is what you need! Check out this week’s #WOW2022 challenge for a throwback to 2017 week 8
Introduction June is Music Month and this week we are getting arty with Charticulator. In our previous Charticulator challenges, we designed with cartesian plots, spiral plots and tried our hand at nested charts. For this challenge we use a Polar Scaffold to visualise songs segments by time/duration. This challenge presumes some Power Query experience. …
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Introduction May is Tableau Redo month and this week we will be recreating Tableau #WoW2019 Week 45 by Luke Stanke. Requirements Filter the data up until November 6th, 2021. Create a matrix showing region and last 7 days (up to November 6th, 2021). Create SVG Measures to build a doughnut chart that shows the …
2022 Week 20 | Power BI: Pie Matrix Tableau Redo Read More »
Introduction For basketball fans in the United States, March is a special time. It is when 64 of the best college basketball teams match up in a single elimination tournament to see who is the NCAA Men’s Basketball champion. The early rounds of the tournament provide long days of basketball games across several TV stations. …
Introduction For this last week of March, we are continuing our project management theme. The challenge this week is to use Deneb to build bullet charts using the provided data. Bullet charts were created by Stephen Few to offer an alternative to clunky gauges. Bullet charts are used to compare a featured measure to one or …
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