Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s inspiration comes from the incredibly cool 1 dataset 100 visualizations project, presented by the Data Viz Project. The basic premise of the 1 dataset 100 visualizations project is that the team created 100 visualizations using a single, simple dataset. In today’s exercise, we challenge you to re-create as many of …
Introduction This week, we’re building on Shannon’s theme from Week 17 2022 by creating a custom Power BI theme–with a twist! Instead of manually selecting colors, this week you’ll use OpenAI’s free version of ChatGPT (or your Large Language Model (LLM) of choice) to create a theme. You’re in control of your prompts, and …
2023 Week 21 | Power BI: Create a Theme – With a Twist! Read More
Introduction For this Workout Wednesday, we are putting a Power BI spin on a Tableau viz created by Luke Stanke and Spencer Bauke for their Workout Wednesday 2023 Week 14. While we could probably match nearly exactly to the original Tableau viz by using Deneb in Power BI, I wanted to see what I could …
2023 Week 20 | Power BI: Remake of Tableau Length of Baseball Games Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! We’re taking inspiration once again from our friends at Makeover Monday. This one is fun – the Makeover Monday team was inspired by a bar chart featured in a blog post and they decided to recreate it in Tableau! You can read Andy’s full post on his blog if you want more info. Today …
2023 Week 19 | Power BI: Formatted bar chart and bookmark navigator Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re using a Makeover Monday dataset that was inspired by Andy Kriebel’s post on Twitter (dataviz inception!). Andy has been working through Makeover Monday challenges in Power BI, and I thought it would be a good opportunity for us to do some of these together! This week’s challenge uses what-if parameters, a …
2023 Week 15 | Power BI: What-if parameters inspired by Makeover Monday Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by recent Twitter activities. We are creating a word cloud containing common misspellings in the US. Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11357183/Google-search-data-reveals-commonly-misspelled-words-spell-correctly.html OR https://github.com/kolky001/Workout-Wednesday-2023/blob/main/Misspellings Transform and load data HINT : Add Index column, create modulo column, unpivot data Power BI Desktop Obtain Word Cloud custom visual from …
Introduction Hello and welcome to WoW week 12! This weeks challenge will be short & sweet from a requirements perspective but will hopefully provide valuable insights to help you optimize your data sync cycle. Tip… check out the Tips section! Requirements Navigate to the dataset created in a previous exercise, or create a new one …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re taking a note out of Meagan’s book and looking at existing reports to ensure they’re accessible to our end-users. Creating accessible Power BI reports isn’t just a nice-to-have feature, but a crucial aspect for ensuring all users can access and understand your data. Don’t let accessibility …
2023 Week 12 | Power BI: Are your reports accessible? Read More
Introduction Note from the Editor: This week we have our first bilingual WoW for Power BI! Below you will find both the Spanish and English instructions for the exercise. Please note that the solution video is in Spanish, but auto-generated captions are available in English. If you enjoyed this, please let us know in the …
2023 Week 10 | Power BI: Mapping Cities with Michelin Star Restaurants Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we will use Power BI to build an interactive resume. This challenge is for a few different audiences. 1) Job seekers – feel free to use this template, plug in your information, make design tweaks, and post this to your portfolio! 2) Data vizzers – use the starter …
2023 Week 08 | Power BI: Create an interactive resume Read More
