Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday. This week we’re taking inspiration from the incredible infographics team over at the New York Times. Their 2015 article looks at the average American’s contribution to the drought in California. As of today (Sep 2024), about a third of California remains abnormally dry. This challenge features some fun data work …
2024 Week 36 | Power BI: Recreate a NYT Interactive Article Read More
Introduction Hello and welcome to Week 34! Let’s get the fun started this week with Rows and Columns Total in the Pivot Table! Yes, you heard that right, we want to sum the rows and columns and yet have all the data show. Requirements Create a dev org or use an existing org you have …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday. This week we get to combine our love for data and the Olympics by building an Olympic medal tracker! This is a design challenge. I have created a sample for inspiration, but feel free to build the report in any way your creative heart desires. In this challenge you’ll …
2024 Week 32 | Power BI: Track the Olympic Medal Count! Read More
Introduction This post is special! It has been sent by Pedro Gagliadri who has been working on CRM Analytics since it was called Wave! Yes, some of us have been using this tool forever! Now for the challenge: This Outliers Detection will use Z-Scores. Prepare a recipe and a dashboard that allows you to see …
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 We are already into the mid 2024 and hope you are ready for another challenge! This is hopefully easier than some of the previous challenges we have set in CRM Analytics this year! It contains windowing function with input widgets. Yes, you read that right! Two great tools that can make your and your …
Introduction While you can’t directly populate a slicer with a measure, you can use a slicer to filter other visuals based upon measure amounts. That is what we are doing in this week’s challenge. In the report below, we have a budget analysis report. The report allows users to filter the projects table to projects …
2024 Week 21 | Power BI: Use Slicers to Filter a Visual Based Upon a Measure Read More
Introduction It’s the 18th week of the year and time for another CRM Analytics challenge! This week’s task is to rank the energy dataset by country for each year and create one chart out of it. This chart will show the least and most energy consumed based on the type of energy consumption selected. Sounds …
Introduction Continuing on last week’s infographic theme, we are recreating an infographic from Visual Capitalist this week, this time showing average lifespan for different mammals. We will be using a scatterplot visual of your choice this week. I made two demo versions, one using the Deneb custom visual and one using the Enhanced Scatterplot custom …
2024 Week 18 | Power BI: Visualize Mammal Lifespan with a Scatterplot and Background Image Read More
Introduction In this week’s challenge, we are creating a timeline visual on a sine wave. You can use your creativity to break out the timelines into series, through conditional formatting, offsetting separate shapes, or create different shapes using different trigonomic functions. Alternatively, with small multiples. Requirements Obtain the data from Kaggle and/or Wikipedia Create a …
2024 Week 16 | Power BI: Timeline on a Sine Wave with Core Visuals Read More
