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2025 Week 42 | Power BI: Info page for reports ℹ️

Introduction Happy Workout Wednesday, data fam! Week 42, we’re taking a step behind the visuals—because every great report deserves a great Info Page! Your report might tell the what, but your info page explains the why—and that’s where real understanding begins. No fancy tools, no measures — just thoughtful design and storytelling. Your challenge: Build an …

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2025 Week 41 | Power BI: eCommerce metrics bar-in-bar visualizations

Introduction I’ve been reading the new book Dashboards That Deliver by Andy Coatgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler. Chapter 14 contains an eCommerce dashboard by Dorian Banutoiu that shows how many people viewed a product, added it to their cart, and then actually purchased it. I appreciated the compact nature of what the book …

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#WOW2025 | Week 38 | Can you build an L-Shaped bar chart?

Introduction Sometime ago, I came across this post by Sarah Pallett ( X | LinkedIn ) introducing the idea of L-Shaped bar charts… … and I thought it would make a perfect WOW challenge (as it gave me an excuse to build a version myself). Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Size 1000 x …

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#WOW2025 | Week 36 | Can You Build a Color-Coded Filter?

Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by yet another Guest Coach and active member of the Tableau and Workout Wednesday communities. Presenting, Giulio D’Errico! Giulio proposed this challenge to me several weeks ago and we have worked together to build out his idea. This challenge applies some great fundamental skills, and then has …

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2025 Week 35 | Grouped Field Parameters in a Matrix

Introduction Welcome to Week 35 of 2025!  When building reports in Power BI, one of the most common requests I hear from users is: “Can I explore different KPIs side by side without creating dozens of visuals?” The good news: yes, you can! And it’s cleaner than ever with field parameters grouped by category. In …

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2025 Week 32 | Build a Waffle Chart using Core Visuals

Introduction This week, we’re cooking up something a little different – waffle charts! Your challenge is to build a report that compares actual sales to a dynamic monthly target and visualizes progress in a clean, impactful way. Requirements Get and Prepare Data Start by downloading the CSV file provided. It contains 8 columns: ORDERNUMBER QUANTITYORDERED …

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2025 Week 30 | Power BI: Bar chart with built-in scales 📏

Introduction Happy Workout Wednesday, data fam! This week, we’re taking bar charts to the next level—with built-in scales that visually speak for themselves! We all love a good bar chart, but sometimes you want to show progress toward a goal or segment values into performance zones – without extra visuals, DAX trickery, or custom backgrounds. Just …

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2025 Week 29 | Next level tooltip

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday!  This week we’re building a special tooltip.It will include flags, and some special custom formatting. Want to learn, how to create a tooltip like this?Let’s do it! Requirements Download the sample data from the Data World Website – part 1 and part 2. [Note: Data.World requires you to create a …

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2025 Week 23 | Power BI: Highlight on Hover with Deneb

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 …

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