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 …
2025 Week 30 | Power BI: Bar chart with built-in scales 📏 Read More »
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 …
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 Welcome to Week 21 of 2025! This report allows users to select a performance metric (e.g., Revenue) and compare its values across 2024 and 2023. It provides a flexible way to explore year-over-year changes and spot trends or anomalies through interactive visuals. Good luck! -Andrei Requirements Main Visual: Area Chart with Year-on-Year Comparison Green …
2025 Week 20 | Year-over-Year Selected Metric Trends Read More »
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a special three-way dumbbell chart! You may ask, if this is a fixed term? No – I just think that sometimes there are three values that need to be displayed. This is how it will look like – you can easily see that chocolate prices …
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 Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a Control Chart. Control charts can be used to track a specific process measure – such as sales, defects, or processing time – over a period of time. A few common uses are: Manufacturing: Monitoring defect rates and equipment performance Healthcare: Tracking infection rates, patient …
Introduction 🎉 Happy Workout Wednesday, data fam! 🎉 I’m thrilled to be back with another Power BI challenge—and this one is all about taking something simple and pushing it to the NEXT level! 💪 Cards are often the go-to for showing big, bold numbers. But what if we could make them smarter? More informative, expressive, …
2025 Week 16 | Power BI: Cards – NEXT Level | with emojis and variances label Read More »
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 to week 11 of Workout Wednesday 2025. This week’s challenge is to recreate the Dr Who Villain story arc’s visual depicted below showing the timelines of the first and last season of Villain appearances or, to challenge you to create your own data visualisation about Dr Who Villains. Perhaps you will recreate The …
2025 Week 11 | Power BI: Can you create a (story) arc diagram with core visuals? Read More »
