Introduction April is colour month for Power BI Workout Wednesday 2022. First up we are going to try our hand at creating reports WITHOUT hue. Using a file from a previous challenge, can you create an achromatic report that uses contrast and lightness effectively? There will be some creative freedom involved in this challenge, no […]
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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday – we’re glad you’re here! This week, we’re continuing on with our project management theme. We’re tracking project progress using data generated from Microsoft Planner. Using Power BI with Planner (as opposed to using the inbuilt charts) enables us to both customize visuals and to view more than one plan at
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Introduction Your challenge this week is to create a Risk Matrix with some supporting visuals. We decided to keep the project management theme going this week. If you did not do last week’s challenge, I highly recommend you checkout Kerry’s Gantt Chart challenge, here. For this challenge, I looked at a lot of possible ways to create a
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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