Introduction Hello and welcome back to Workout Wednesday! If you’re joining us for the first time, be sure to check out our complete list of challenges. This week we’re looking at data from the American Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars. The Oscars are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American film industry …
2023 Week 05 | Power BI: Visualize the Oscars with an Isotype/Pictogram Chart Read More
Introduction Hello everyone! I’m excited to have my first challenge of 2023 up and ready for your enjoyment. Last year I got a reputation as providing challenges that were, let’s say….a little on the easier side, so this year I’m just going to own it! I was scrolling Twitter in hopes of finding some inspiration …
2023 Week 04 | Power BI: Mortgage Rates Area Chart Read More
Introduction “Hot days, warm nights, beaches, backyard cricket and Christmas celebrations are all part of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.” This week we will be connecting to a public flickr photo gallery from the State Library of South Australia, to create an image carousel using a custom visual from AppSource. Requirements Power Query Connect to the …
Introduction Me and my family love sitting down and watching Christmas movies during the holiday season! In this challenge we are going to be breaking down the words used in Christmas movie titles. Check out the word cloud that we are going to be creating below! Requirements Power Query In order to get this data …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday 2022! This week we’re continuing our work with images and building a fun Holiday Song Picker using the Image Grid custom visual in Power BI! We’ll use data from Spotify to help select a song based on Artist, Tempo, or Key. If you’d like to follow along with the …
2022 Week 49 | Power BI: Build a Holiday Song Picker Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re collaborating with the Tableau team to create a waterfall pipeline using Salesforce data. Lorna Brown, the creator of the challenge is attending Saleforce’s Dreamforce conference, hence the nature of the challenge. We’re building a waterfall chart using the Simple Waterfall custom visual by Datanomy Limited. This week’s workout can be done in …
2022 Week 38 | Power BI: Create a Waterfall Pipeline Read More
Introduction I sit back every week and watch the other amazing members of the #WorkoutWednesday Power BI team go through Deneb challenges like it’s nothing. The visuals are fantastic, the customizations are intriguing, but the truth is – I’ve never done a Deneb visual! Until this week that is. If you’re like me and …
Introduction This week for Workout Wednesday we are getting familiar with the PlotlyJS visual by creating traces and annotations for a connected scatterplot. Connected scatterplots are a cross between a scatterplot and a lineplot whereby two numeric variables are connected by a third ordered variable (often time). The below graph created with the …
2022 Week 31 | Power BI: Connected Scatter with PlotlyJS Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! If you’re joining us for the first time, welcome! We present you with a challenge, a dataset to recreate the challenge, and a solution video or file. You can use these challenges to build your skills and your portfolio! This week we’re exploring the error bars feature in Power …
Introduction If you weren’t aware, June was Music Month and Kerry Kolosko gave us a brilliant visualization of Beatles tunes using Charticulator – you can check out the challenge here. This week we are going to be recreating a recent Tableau challenge from Sean Miller that was featured in Week 11 of this year’s Tableau …
