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2026 Week 27 | Power BI: Create Smarter Tooltips with Sentence Template Tooltips

Introduction You’ve probably seen the default Power BI tooltip that lists values like Sales, Profit, or Enrollment. While that’s useful, it doesn’t always explain what those numbers mean. Sentence template tooltips let you turn those values into a natural sentence… making your reports easier to understand without creating a custom tooltip page. Where can you […]

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2026 Week 21 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 4

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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2026 Week 20 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 3

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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2026 Week 19 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 2

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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2026 Week 18 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 1

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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2026 Week 14 | Power BI: Drive insights with a simple table

Introduction   This week we’re going to build everyone’s favorite Power BI visual, a table! Tables are often dismissed as boring or “not visual enough,” but they’re also one of the most powerful tools we have for making decisions – when they’re designed with intent. In this workout, we’ll start with a very simple table

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2026 Week 12 | Power BI: Custom matrix subtotals and cards with categories

Introduction This week we are looking at some newer core visuals and formatting features: cards that in a segmented tile layout, a slicer that supports partial text matching, and a matrix where the percentage-of-total calculation changes meaning depending on whether you’re looking at a subtotal or a detail row.  The bonus challenge pushes into SVG-in-DAX

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2025 Week 49 | Power BI: Join the last QuickViz Challenge

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re partnering with the Fabric Community team for their final QuickViz challenge! The idea is simple: create a single visual, upload the .pbix to the Fabric Community, and browse the other entries to see what you can learn!   Read more about the challenge in the Fabric Community. Let’s

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2025 Week 47 | Power BI: Join a(nother) QuickViz Challenge

Introduction This week we’re partnering with the Microsoft Fabric Community team to bring you a set of challenges that are taking place over the next month as a part of Fabric Data Days. Each week, they post a new mini-challenge, aimed at anyone looking to practice dataviz skills, explore new visuals, and engage with the

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2025 Week 46 | Power BI: Join a QuickViz Challenge

Introduction This week we’re partnering with the Microsoft Fabric Community team to bring you a set of challenges that are taking place over the next month as a part of Fabric Data Days. Each week, they post a new mini-challenge, aimed at anyone looking to practice dataviz skills, explore new visuals, and engage with the

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