Introduction Welcome to week 7 of Workout Wednesday for Power BI 2022. We are again using the Data Visualization Society‘s annual State of the Industry survey results. This week we are looking at how we can visualize parallel sets. Although this may not be a visual that we use often, it can be very useful for multivariate analysis. …
Introduction First of all, I am honored to be able to deliver my first Workout Wednesday challenge. Hopefully this is just one of many challenges I can bring to you. More importantly… Have you ever been able to easily find Rhode Island or Delaware on a US map? Yea, me neither. This is why I …
Introduction This week we are taking a page from the Tableau team and looking at how a metric has changed from the value at a specified reference date. Requirements Create a line chart showing percent change of the close price from a selected date. Use a slicer or other visual to allow users to change …
2022 Week 03 | Power BI: Can you visualize percent difference from a selected date? Read More
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 We hope that you had a lot of fun last week re-designing Spencer’s report! This week we’re also focusing on design and creating a custom navigation experience using bookmarks and buttons. I am looking for a new place to live and stumbled upon the 2017 State of American Well-Being report. This PDF report details community well-being …
2021 Week 45 | Power BI: Create a Custom Navigation Experience Read More
Introduction It’s the final week of mapping month! This week we are plotting points on a map within a selected radius. It’s common to want to see locations, such as stores or restaurants that are nearby to a selected location. This week we are exploring one way to do that in Power BI. This involves …
2021 Week 43 | Power BI: Maps with a Distance Radius Read More
Introduction We have declared October to be mapping month! This month, we will focus on maps and geospatial data. There are several different maps available in Power BI as default and custom (AppSource) visuals. This week we are going to give you a fairly simple challenge that will show you some features of Power BI …
Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday we will be using “What-If” Parameters to show Top N values based on user selection. What-If Parameters can allow your audience to have more self-service interaction with the dashboard. For this challenge, we will be visualizing the Top N Movies based on Worldwide sales, as well as leveraging conditional formatting to …
Introduction Tables, tables, tables…Love them, or hate them, we, Power BI developers, can’t live without them. Our users too. However, who says that we must provide our users with “normal”, old-fashioned tables? This week, with little creativity and magic, we will push table visual experience to a whole new level! The report below shows data about …
Introduction This week we are collaborating with Preppin’ Data to get a close look at the schedule for the 2020 Olympic Games! We’re also collaborating with the Tableau team and we invite you to take a look at both challenges! With the opening ceremony 2 days away, we thought we’d visualize the schedule in our own time zone. We encourage you …
2021 Week 29 | Power BI: Let’s Watch the Olympics! Read More
