Introduction Hello everyone! I’m excited to have my first challenge of 2023 up and ready for your enjoyment. Last year I got a reputation as providing challenges that were, let’s say….a little on the easier side, so this year I’m just going to own it! I was scrolling Twitter in hopes of finding some inspiration […]
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Introduction Me and my family love sitting down and watching Christmas movies during the holiday season! In this challenge we are going to be breaking down the words used in Christmas movie titles. Check out the word cloud that we are going to be creating below! Requirements Power Query In order to get this data
2022 Week 51 | Titles of Christmas Movies Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
It’s hard to believe that 2022 is coming to an end here before long! The second year of #PowerBI #WorkoutWednesday has been a great one. Thank you to everyone who has been a participant, a guest host, or interacted with our challenges in some way – you all are the reason why we do this!
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Introduction During week 42’s community month challenge brought to us by Thys van der Westhuizen – Thys built on my week 37 challenge – My First Deneb. For that week’s challenge I built out three basic bar charts using Deneb visuals, and subsequently, Thys continued to build a few more amazing visuals in his challenge.
2022 Week 46 | Power BI: My Second Deneb Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I sit back every week and watch the other amazing members of the #WorkoutWednesday Power BI team go through Deneb challenges like it’s nothing. The visuals are fantastic, the customizations are intriguing, but the truth is – I’ve never done a Deneb visual! Until this week that is. If you’re like me and
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction If you weren’t aware, June was Music Month and Kerry Kolosko gave us a brilliant visualization of Beatles tunes using Charticulator – you can check out the challenge here. This week we are going to be recreating a recent Tableau challenge from Sean Miller that was featured in Week 11 of this year’s Tableau
2022 Week 27 | Power BI: Navigating Hierarchies Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Even though May is Tableau Redo month, we took a quick break from the month’s theme last week to check out the amazing new Power BI feature, Field Parameters. The week before last, Kerry Kolosko worked her usual magic to recreate a Tableau dashboard, make sure to check it out here. This week we are
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction May is Tableau Redo month, so if you haven’t checked out last week’s report by Kerry Kolosko, make sure to check it out here. Most of the challenges this month have been Power BI remakes of previous Tableau Workout Wednesdays, but this week there was a really big release for the newest version of
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Your challenge this week is to create a Project Budget Tracker leveraging the IT Spend Analysis example dataset available to everyone in Power BI Service. We decided to keep the project management theme going this week with this take on tracking how your project is following the budget. If you did not do last week’s challenge, I
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome back to another year of Power BI #WorkoutWednesday! We hope you enjoy the challenges that we are going to present you this year. To get this year started off right, this week’s challenge will be introducing you to a feature that was released in the December 2021 Power BI Desktop release, sparklines. I’ve
2022 Week 01 | Power BI: Sparklines! Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday