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2022 Week 49 | Power BI: Build a Holiday Song Picker

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 …

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2022 Week 38 | Power BI: Create a Waterfall Pipeline

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 …

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2022 Week 31 | Power BI: Connected Scatter with PlotlyJS

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 …

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2022 Week 27 | Power BI: Navigating Hierarchies

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 …

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2022 Week 11 | Power BI: Project Budget Tracker

Introduction Your challenge this week is to create a Project Budget Tracker leveraging the IT Spend Analysis example dataset available to everyone in Power BI Service.  We decided to keep the project management theme going this week with this take on tracking how your project is following the budget.  If you did not do last week’s challenge, I …

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2022 Week 08 | Power BI: Can you make a Gantt Chart?

Introduction This week we are creating Gantt Charts in Power BI. It is not required to do all 4 variations, choose one of the options that interests you the most. Each option increases in time and/or experience level. Requirements QUICK MODE Import data Import the Microsoft Gantt Chart from AppSource Place Project Category in the …

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