Author name: Meagan Longoria

2026 Week 26 | Power BI: Visualizing Affordability Using a Dumbbell Chart

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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 […]

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2026 Week 25 | Power BI: Find the difference from a selected value

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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

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2026 Week 23 | Power BI: Create a Euler Diagram

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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.

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2026 Week 22 | Power BI: Create a Wind Vector Map

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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

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2026 Week 17 | Power BI: Create a Double-Sided Stem-and-Leaf Plot

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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

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2026 Week 16 | Power BI: Recreate the Tableau Satellite Chart

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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

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2026 Week 12 | Power BI: Custom matrix subtotals and cards with categories

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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

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2025 Week 50 | Power BI: First Snowfall Scatterplot

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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

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2025 Week 41 | Power BI: eCommerce metrics bar-in-bar visualizations

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Introduction I’ve been reading the new book Dashboards That Deliver by Andy Coatgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler. Chapter 14 contains an eCommerce dashboard by Dorian Banutoiu that shows how many people viewed a product, added it to their cart, and then actually purchased it. I appreciated the compact nature of what the book

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