Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a special three-way dumbbell chart! You may ask, if this is a fixed term? No – I just think that sometimes there are three values that need to be displayed. This is how it will look like – you can easily see that chocolate prices …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a Control Chart. Control charts can be used to track a specific process measure – such as sales, defects, or processing time – over a period of time. A few common uses are: Manufacturing: Monitoring defect rates and equipment performance Healthcare: Tracking infection rates, patient …
Introduction I’m honored to be added to the team and I’m expecting I’ll be learning as much about dataviz as you are all will. This first challenge comes from the real world, where a simple visual shift made a big difference for a small company. The question from the customer was simple: do new customer …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is all about bringing your data to life with animation! It was inspired by a LinkedIn post from Edward Charles, where he used an SVG measure and the new card visual to create an animated progress bar. Progress bars can be a great way to visually track goals, completion …
2025 Week 12 | Power BI: Animated Progress Bar with Edward Charles Read More
Introduction I’m incredibly honored to be part of this amazing group of Power BI enthusiasts, and I couldn’t be more excited to share my very first Workout Wednesday challenge with you all! Have you ever looked at a visualization and thought, there has to be a better way to present this data? This week, we’re …
2025 Week 9 | Power BI: From stacked bar chart to bullet chart Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re sharing an exciting announcement and inviting you to participate in the first ever Power BI Data Visualization World Championships! Workout Wednesday is collaborating with Microsoft and our very own Meagan and Kerry are judging the Grand Finale in Las Vegas! Requirements You can find the complete challenge details on …
2025 Week 8 | Power BI: Join the Power BI DataViz World Championships Competition! Read More
Introduction The January 2025 update of Power BI Desktop brought us some enhancements to the tree map visual, including 3 new tiling methods and options for spacing between groups and nodes. So this week we are trying out those features to make a tree map organized into columns. Requirements Download the “Regional Sales Sample.pbix” file …
2025 Week 7 | Power BI: Create a tree map organized into columns Read More
Introduction There are times where we want to compare categorical data with a total, perhaps an average. And sometimes we don’t want to see that total at the bottom of a table. So this week we are creating a bar chart that contains a “total average” bar. We want the bar chart sorted descending by …
2025 Week 5 | Power BI: Add an All Category to a Bar Chart Read More
Introduction It’s cold and snowy in many places in the United States this week. So we are making an infographic to remind people about ice safety. It’s important to check that ice can support the weight of your desired outdoor activity, so you won’t fall through or harm the area. Let’s use Power BI to …
2025 Week 2 | Power BI: Ice Thickness Infographic with Core Visuals Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re wishing everyone a very happy holiday season. Join us as we celebrate with a straightforward challenge, embedding a video in a Power BI report using the HTML Content custom visual. Requirements Create a custom image that you’ll use as your landing page. Create a custom video that you’d …
2024 Week 50 | Power BI: Happy Holidays! Embed a video in a Power BI report Read More
