Introduction Last week’s bump chart reminded me of one of our early challenges from 2021, where David turned a ribbon chart into a bump chart. We’ve done other bump chart challenges over the years, so give them a try if you haven’t already. This made me curious about trends in chart selection in our challenges. […]
2026 Week 34 | Power BI: Visualizing WoW Chart Choices Read More »
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Introduction This week, we have another new contributor to Workout Wednesday for Power BI: Nabha Ahmed. Give Nabha’s challenge a try! In this challenge, we explore a data visualization technique called a dumbbell chart. A dumbbell chart is used to compare two related values within the same category. It displays both values as points connected
2026 Week 26 | Power BI: Visualizing Affordability Using a Dumbbell Chart Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction We have a new contributor to WoW for Power BI, Robbin Vernooij. Please check out Robbin’s challenge below, including the solution video! ⬇️ This week we’re looking to give our users the capability to select which sub-category they want to use as a comparison value for all others! This technique has many different use
2026 Week 25 | Power BI: Find the difference from a selected value Read More »
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Introduction This week we are exploring a new type of visual: an Euler diagram. An Euler diagram is a powerful visualization tool used to depict hierarchical relationships and set containment. Unlike a Venn diagram, which displays all possible logical intersections—even those that are empty—an Euler diagram focuses specifically on the connections present in your data.
2026 Week 23 | Power BI: Create a Euler Diagram Read More »
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Introduction With the introduction of Fabric Apps at the Build conference this week, Fabric now natively supports visualization libraries like Vega, Vega-Lite, and. D3.js. In celebration, we are doing a Vega-Lite challenge. This week we are making a wind vector map. This map shows how wind speed and direction change across a region, using colors
2026 Week 22 | Power BI: Create a Wind Vector Map Read More »
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Introduction Inspired by a previous Tableau challenge, we are making a double-sided stem-and-leaf plot, but we are using a different dataset and showing the observed petal length of two species of iris. A stem-and-leaf plot displays numerical data by splitting each value into a “stem” (leading digit) and a “leaf” (trailing digit), arranging them so
2026 Week 17 | Power BI: Create a Double-Sided Stem-and-Leaf Plot Read More »
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Introduction This week, we are making a Power BI version of a previous Tableau challenge by Donna Coles. We are making small multiple spiral charts, also called satellite charts. Satellite charts can be used to show percentages when values exceed 100%. Rather than creating one circle like a donut chart, the line spirals out to
2026 Week 16 | Power BI: Recreate the Tableau Satellite Chart Read More »
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Introduction I noticed this map from Visual Capitalist the other day. I like the idea of showing elevation using height, but since it’s a state average, it seems weird to show the spacial area of the state. I decided to try to make a tile map with the same information. While we could just use color
2026 Week 13 | Power BI: Tile Map with 3D Effect Read More »
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Introduction This week we are looking at some newer core visuals and formatting features: cards that in a segmented tile layout, a slicer that supports partial text matching, and a matrix where the percentage-of-total calculation changes meaning depending on whether you’re looking at a subtotal or a detail row. The bonus challenge pushes into SVG-in-DAX
2026 Week 12 | Power BI: Custom matrix subtotals and cards with categories Read More »
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Introduction The first snowfall in Denver was unseasonably late this year. So I got curious about the data and decided to make a visualization. While this one does communicate with data, it’s taking a bit of artistic license. This is your challenge as well: create a first snowfall scatterplot with some wintery visual effects. You
2025 Week 50 | Power BI: First Snowfall Scatterplot Read More »
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