Introduction This week we are continuing our design theme and using the waffle chart custom visual. Waffle charts show progress toward a whole or a target percentage, and can be used as an alternative to bar and/or pie charts. The Waffle Chart custom visual in Power BI allows us to customize the icon (here we …
Introduction Welcome to week 3 of mapping month! The Workout Wednesday Power BI team is focusing on maps and geospatial data in Power BI. There are several different maps available in Power BI as default and custom (AppSource) visuals. Last week we explored how to implement custom maps from Mapbox into Power BI. This week we …
Introduction Have you ever wondered what’s in that fancy coffee drink you ordered? Me too! Let’s take a look using an infographic in Power BI. In this week’s Workout Wednesday we will be creating an infographic using the PureViz custom visual. I had loads of fun creating this and cannot wait to see what you …
Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday we will be creating a network diagram in Power BI. Network diagrams are useful to explore relational datasets and are often used to visualize such things as project interdependencies, and social networks. For this challenge we will be visualizing the interconnections of actors/characters of the Love Actually movie by number …
2021 Week 34 | Power BI: Building a Network Diagram Read More
Introduction Over the course of Power BI’s Workout Wednesday challenges, you’ve had a chance to try several “custom” visuals. These are typically developed by third parties and may or may not appear on Microsoft’s AppSource marketplace. Generally, you don’t have much control over the visualization apart from whatever format options the developer creates. This week, …
2021 Week 31 | Power BI: Declarative Visualization with Deneb Read More
Introduction This week we are building on Meagan and David’s challenges using the Nobel Prize data. We’re also continuing on our customization journey and will have a bit of fun using unicode values. Unicode is a standard numeric value that represents a character, which can easily be transformed into a character in Power BI using a bit …
Introduction This week we are continuing with the Nobel laureates data and taking a look at gender diversity of Nobel laureates. We’ll do this by using an isotype visualization. Isotype visuals use an icon that is related to the subject matter being depicted and often use multiples to represent quantitative data. You can learn more about …
2021 Week 24 | Power BI: Create an Isotype Visualization Read More
Introduction It’s week 17 and we’re back to create what demographers refer to as an Age Pyramid, in which each bar represents the makeup of the US population as a whole in 5 year cohorts. The inspiration for this visual came from the Pew Research Center’s 2014 publication in which they visualized “America’s Morphing Age …
Introduction Thanks to everyone who has ben participating in #WorkoutWednesday – Power BI edition! We have had an amazing 953 submissions for the Power BI challenges at the time of writing this post. If you haven’t been submitting your tracker upon completion, make sure to fill it out at this link. This week we are …
Power BI Conditional Formatting using Background Color, Font Color, and Icons
