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 »
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! We’re taking it back to basics this week and creating a bar chart that uses small multiples and conditional formatting. We’re using the #MakeoverMonday team’s data on New Year’s Resolutions and the design is inspired by a Makeover Monday participant! A huge thank you to Ela Piwowarska for creating her submission and …
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Introduction In the December 2023 release of Power BI Desktop, some new formatting options were added for bar charts. These enhancements allow us to add borders around bars (and segments of bars for stacked bar charts), change the transparency of the fill color in a bar, and add secondary metrics to data labels. With the …
2023 Week 52 | Power BI: Format Bar Charts with Transparency, Borders, and Detail Labels Read More »
Introduction Happy holidays to everyone who celebrates! Join us this week to get some help shopping for your friends and family, using a dataset you provide and a random number generator in Power Query. If Clippy can’t pick a gift, no one can! Have fun and create the random gift generator in whatever way you …
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Introduction To ensure that a dashboard you have built is running optimally prior to being released to your users, run a performance check on the dashboard and all queries. The dashboard inspector 2.0 identifies different types of bottlenecks, such as slow queries and networks, and provides recommendations to improve the performance. It is also a …
Introduction The November 2023 release of Power BI Desktop includes the new button slicer visual. This visual can currently be used as a replacement for the original slicer visual when using tiles. There are more enhancements to come, but we already have a lot more control over the formatting of the slicer. We can add …
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Introduction This week for Workout Wednesday we are performing RFM (recency, frequency and monetary value) analysis. RFM Analysis is a marketing technique used to quantitatively rank and group customers based on the recency, frequency and monetary total of their recent transactions. A score of 1 to 5 is assigned for each of the three main factors. …
Introduction For this week’s challenge, we will be creating dynamic text boxes to introduce our visuals and tell a story around our data. This is differentiated from the “smart narrative” visual in that we will customize the text and measures that we display to create our own narrative. In the example below, you’ll notice that …
Introduction This week we are exploring a feature – Action Menu – which allows your users as they gain insights into your business from your dashboard, to perform actions on underlying Salesforce records. Allowing them to invoke a Salesforce action on the record directly from CRM Analytics. Requirements Create a new dataset or use an …
2023 Week 42 | Take Control of Your Experience with Actions Menus Read More »
Introduction Hello and welcome to week 38 of our CRM Analytics WoW challenges! This week we are exploring Single-Click Interactions through Dashboard Widgets! This feature allows you to create a curated journey for your users turning a static dashboard into a dynamic navigation experience that progressively reveals more details. The teams at Salesforce CRM Analytics …
2023 Week 38 | Enhanced Single-Click Interactions Read More »
