Introduction This report visualizes account activity movement over time, not just a net change. For each date, it shows two flows at once: New Active Accounts (inflow) above zero Lost Active Accounts (outflow) below zero The goal is to make daily shifts easy to read, with a gradient background to emphasize the “above/below” balance. Requirements …
2025 Week 51 | Power BI: Holiday Traffic: Who Came, Who Left 🎄 Read More »
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 …
2025 Week 49 | Power BI: Join the last QuickViz Challenge Read More »
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 …
2025 Week 47 | Power BI: Join a(nother) QuickViz Challenge Read More »
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 …
2025 Week 46 | Power BI: Join a QuickViz Challenge Read More »
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, …
