Introduction June is still music month, so for this week’s challenge we’re going to visualize music. Sometimes the simple visualizations tell the best stories. That is definitely the case for the “warming stripes” visualization which was used to show the change of global temperature over time. Using this as motivation, what if we created a …
Introduction A few week’s ago, Sean Miller created an incredibly slick dashboard showing Rat Sightings in New York since 2010 for week 16 of Tableau’s Workout Wednesday (Challenge Link). The challenge used Hexbins to combine multiple map points into shapes of the same size to show density more clearly within a map. This week, we’re …
2022 Week 19 | Power BI: Oh Rats! Tableau Recreation Read More »
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 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 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 start off simple and use the Map visual to make a bubble map. When visualizing …
Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday is brought to you by Josh Jackson. For those who don’t know, Josh is my husband! He typically prefers to stay in the background, but asked if he could borrow one of my weeks to share this challenge. Here’s the challenge in his own words: This week is inspired by …
2021 Week 28 | Tableau: Can you build an app to visualize wildfires? Read More »
Power BI Conditional Formatting using Background Color, Font Color, and Icons
