Introduction It’s good to be back again, and a bit sooner than last time! This time, we will be creating a visual using Deneb. Deneb has featured a lot in WoW, which I’m very grateful for, but I’ve yet to submit and exercise for it. As such, I wanted to try something that would help …
2025 Week 33 | Create a Circular Heatmap with Deneb Read More »
Introduction What do you want to highlight on hover? Practice with the Deneb Custom Visual. This week’s challenge was created using the Deneb custom visual in Power BI. I was inspired by the many examples on the Vega-Lite website. The chart displays Sales and Profit grouped by country and segment, based on a sample Power …
2025 Week 23 | Power BI: Highlight on Hover with Deneb Read More »
Introduction Hello everyone! This week we are looking at developing a ‘Skyline’ visual. Anyone outside of the construction industry may not have heard this term before, but it is kind of a combination of a stacked column visual and a kanban board. It is used in construction to show construction activities (workpacks) that …
Introduction This week we are building a nullity matrix, a tabular visual that helps us to easily see which rows and columns have null data. There is a library for this in Python, but you need to “roll your own” in Power BI. I found the Python library and liked the idea of visualizing null …
2025 Week 14 | Power BI: Create a nullity matrix Read More »
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re having fun with the Deneb custom visual and learning from another one of our fabulous Power BI community members, Ying Fu. Ying has been sharing on LinkedIn and I’ve had so much fun exploring their GitHub repo. Today we’re using a rotatable globe to look at Chinese migration abroad. Ying …
2025 Week 4 | Power BI: Create a Rotatable Globe with Deneb by Ying Fu Read More »
Introduction Welcome to week 3 of 2025 and this challenge we will be dipping our toes into Vega, a lower-level language than vega-lite. This challenge is ideally suited to those that have dabbled in vega-lite – but don’t worry if you want to try your hand – there are a few templates to help get …
2025 Week 3 | Power BI: Can you build a Voronoi? Read More »
Introduction There are a few ways to visualize movement in Power BI. This week, we are visualizing race cars moving on a track. The example report below uses Deneb, but you could also complete this challenge by combining a custom visual and the Play Axis visual. In the report below, once you click the Go …
2024 Week 41 | Power BI: Visualize a Drag Race with Animation Read More »
Introduction Editor’s note: This week we have a guest post from Imran Haq (LinkedIn, X). If you haven’t already, try out his previous WoW contribution to make a jittered column chart. The segmented bar chart from week 29, inspired some experimentation with similar designs. This week we are making segmented donut charts. These donut charts have 2 …
Introduction This week, we are recreating a previous Tableau workout in Power BI in which we build a segmented bar chart that contains a bar for the total amount followed by a bar that shows a categorical breakdown of that amount. This challenge involves a bit of data transformation as well as some more advanced …
2024 Week 29 | Power BI: Remake of a Tableau Segmented Bar Chart Read More »
Introduction This week we have our first guest post of 2024! Today’s challenge comes from Imran Haq (LinkedIn, X). I have always admired his Deneb skills, so I’m excited to share this report with you today. We are making a jittered column chart with Deneb. The theme of soda (or pop, coke, or whatever you …
2024 Week 2 | Power BI: Soda Pop Sales in a Jittered Column Chart Read More »
