Introduction Power BI reports have a theme that specifies the default colors, fonts, and visual styles. In Power BI Desktop, you can choose to use a built-in theme, start with a built-in theme and customize it, or create your own theme. In addition to the primary data colors, we can also define sentiment colors and divergent …
2024 Week 26 | Power BI: Reference Theme Sentiment Colors in DAX Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is purely dataviz – there is no data transformation involved. You have the pleasure of either recreating or making over the stunning sample report provided by the Power BI core visuals team. This report is beautiful to look at and was built to demonstrate some of the …
2024 Week 24 | Power BI: Get creative with the Power BI Core Visuals team Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is for participants new to Power BI and/or new to data visualization. We’re building a report containing 2 charts, a table, and a slicer. My challenge to you is to design the report in a way that a) makes sense to business users and b) is …
2024 Week 20 | Power BI: Build your first report with Dynamics 365 Business Central Data Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re celebrating Earth Day (April 22) with a design challenge. You can do whatever your designer heart desires with this challenge. I’ve provided a sample, but this is just to get your creative juices flowing. Whatever you do, ensure that your design is accessible and that you’re …
2024 Week 17 | Power BI: Design an Earth Day Infographic Read More
Introduction Since I watched the solar eclipse from Texas this week, we have a solar theme. We are visualizing the sunrise time each day in 2024 to date. I’m keeping it simple with the line chart core visual, but you can use whatever visual you would like. Requirements 1. Retrieve the data from Data.World. 2. …
2024 Week 15 | Power BI: Visualize sunrise times with a line chart Read More
Introduction In this week’s challenge we are creating an Overlay Histogram. An overlay histogram utilises overlapping columns or bars to compare two populations. In this case, we are utilising the speed dating data from a previous challenge to compare male and female differences in dating preferences. Requirements Obtain the data from the Workout Wednesday 2022 …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is for folks who want to practice building reports that do have calculations but do not use complex DAX! I also had a little fun with Microsoft Designer for the images. If you haven’t had a chance to play around with this new AI design tool …
Introduction Welcome to this week’s Workout Wednesday. This week, we are taking advantage of some new features in the February 2024 release of Power BI Desktop. We can now have bars overlap in a clustered column chart and hide the inner borders in a stacked column chart. This week, we’ll use those formatting options to …
2024 Week 9 | Power BI: Use Bar Overlap and Border Formatting Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge we will be utilising visual calculations (this will require turning Visual Calculations on in Preview settings of February 2024 Desktop) and some additional new data label formatting options to create a pipeline funnel with out of the box visuals in Power BI. Visual calculations can be handy for visual specifiic calculations …
2024 Week 8 | Power BI: Build a Pipeline Funnel with Core Visuals Read More
Introduction I keep seeing a particular visual shared by a Denver-area meteorologist on social media. It seems to be output from weathermodels.com. I thought it might be fun to make a modified version in Power BI, so that is our challenge this week. While we don’t have native overlapping columns, there is a native solution …
2024 Week 4 | Power BI: Recreate this weather visual with overlapping columns Read More
