Introduction Workout Wednesday crew! Did you know that Microsoft is now hosting a Dataviz World Championships every year, twice a year? The premise is that you create a report for a preliminary round (or rounds), and 4 finalists are then selected to compete live on-stage at the Fabric Community Conference (FabCon). I just returned from …
2025 Week 40 | Power BI: Announcing the DataViz World Champion Read More
Introduction In this challenge, we are looking to add a bar with custom logic to a bar chart. Sometimes when I’m working with a customer, they want a baseline, total, or reference point to be included in the column of a column chart or the row of a table. If it’s just a matter of …
2025 Week 37 | Power BI: Adding a baseline bar in a bar chart Read More
Introduction When building reports, one of the most common requests I hear from users is: “Can I see the top three, top five, or top ten items without having to look at multiple visuals?” The good news: yes, you can! And it’s cleaner than ever with numeric range parameters in Power BI. In this week’s …
Introduction This week we’re challenging you to recreate a single visual element from one of the winning reports from the #PBI10 dataviz championship. The contest took place over the past month and there were four winners, so, you have four reports to choose from! The entries in this challenge represent a wide range of visual styles, analysis, …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a special tooltip.It will include flags, and some special custom formatting. Want to learn, how to create a tooltip like this?Let’s do it! Requirements Download the sample data from the Data World Website – part 1 and part 2. [Note: Data.World requires you to create a …
Introduction This week we’re challenging you to join the official Power BI 10th birthday celebration! Microsoft is celebrating by hosting a dataviz contest, and we’d love to see you join! You can find all of the details on the Fabric/Power BI Community Site, and we’ll paraphrase the challenge here below. Contest Timeline Start Date: Tuesday, …
Introduction Recreating visuals you find online helps you build visual design skills and find workarounds to common problems or feature gaps in Power BI. This week, we are recreating this infographic from Visual Capitalist about the change in global wealth. The original is shown below, followed by my version in Power BI. Requirements Create a …
Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This week on Workout Wednesday, I’m excited to be back with a fresh challenge and it’s all about progress bars! No custom visuals. No add-ons. Just creativity and some Power BI magic. Why Progress Bars? Progress bars are a great visual tool used to represent progress toward a goal/target …
Introduction This challenge builds upon my last challenge, reusing much of the same logic. Both of them are based on real-world solutions for a client of mine. In the client scenario, we had used a Sankey chart to show whether customer accounts would grow or shrink over time. This worked great at first to show …
Introduction It’s nice to be invited back by the team, and thanks for having me! While it’s tempting for me to think of something for you explore with the Deneb or HTML Content custom visuals (and I’d still encourage that!), I’d like to continue some of the other threads we’ve recently seen around what we …
