Introduction To celebrate our fourth week of Power Query month, we are going to use Power Query to analyze text data. Inspired by Chris Webb’s blog post, we are going to analyze word usage in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus. The Power Query techniques used in this week’s challenge are a bit …
2021 Week 30 | Power BI: Remove Punctuation and Count Words With Power Query Read More
Introduction July is “Power Query Month”, where the theme is focused less on visualization and more on data preparation. Every Power BI challenge requires Power Query to get and transform data, but now we’re going deeper in July! If you haven’t checked out Dave’s challenge from last week, make sure to check it out here. This …
2021 Week 28 | Power BI: Web Scraping with Power Query Read More
Introduction Workout Wednesdays for Power BI is now in our sixth month! Thanks so much for joining us. For the month of June, we will have independent exercises that all use the same data source but focus on different aspects of the data and of Power BI. Our dataset for the month comes from Nobelprize.org. …
2021 Week 22 | Power BI: Create Your Own Timeline from JSON Data Read More
Power BI Highlights with DAX
Introduction The Power BI Workout Wednesday team has decided that May is made for DAX! Each challenge this month will require some DAX in the solution. We are going to start our month of DAX with a fun game called Cat or Croissant. You might be familiar with the many versions of “animal or food” …
2021 Week 18 | Power BI: DAX Trick – Cat or Croissant Read More
Power BI Conditional Formatting using Background Color, Font Color, and Icons
Power BI Conditional Formatting using Background Color, Font Color, and Icons
Introduction Thanks for joining us for Week 10 of Workout Wednesday – Power BI Edition. This week our challenge is to use the Violin Plot custom visual. There are no dependencies on prior weeks for this workout, so feel free to jump right in. Custom visuals are additional visuals created by Microsoft and Microsoft partners …
2021 Week 10 | Power BI: Violin Plot Custom Visual Read More
Introduction Thanks to everyone who has ben participating in #WorkoutWednesday – Power BI edition. This week we are going to be diving into switching metrics in your reports using SWITCH() and a slicer. This method can be especially useful when designing reports for mobile use. Toggling between metrics allows you to save real estate on …
