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2022 Week 25 | Power BI: Visualizing Music

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 …

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2022 Week 19 | Power BI: Oh Rats! Tableau Recreation

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 …

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Power BI report showing Dutch Bros coffee locations within a radius of a selected city

2021 Week 43 | Power BI: Maps with a Distance Radius

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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Power Bi report with a line chart and map

2021 Week 40 | Power BI: Geocoding and Maps

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 …

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2021 Week 28 | Tableau: Can you build an app to visualize wildfires?

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 …

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