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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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week is our third installment of this month’s “dashboard series” so we’ll be building upon Erica’s challenge from Week 5 and Sean’s challenge from Week 6. If you’ve done Week 6, you can start from that, or you can check out those challenges linked above and come back to this when you’re done…or
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome back to Power BI #WorkoutWednesday – we’re now in week 6! If you’re joining us for the first time, welcome! There are no dependencies on previous weeks – you’re welcome to jump right in with this week’s challenge, where we’ll use AI in Power BI to get an understanding of key influencers of
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Here we go! This is the second installment of our new “dashboard series” that Erica started last week. My challenge will build upon what she built. If you participated last you can start from that there, if you haven’t started yet, you can check out her challenge here and then come back when you’re
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are familiarising ourselves with Charticulator and Nested Charts. This graph was inspired by Gus Wezerek and Sara Chodosh’s chart for NYT Opinion. Requirements Download the data and remove all columns excepting the Date field, New Cases Smoothed Field and Location (save as csv) Create a second csv with only Location =
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week is my debut challenge as a Workout Wednesday coach and it’s safe to say that I’m looking forward to the year ahead! All the coaches are teaming up this month to bring together an interactive dashboard made up of challenging charts. Over the next few weeks, each coach will contribute one piece
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge looks at products in Tableau’s superstore dataset. In this challenge you will have to find the products that have been profitable in each of the four years in this dataset. That means profitable in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Once you have identified successful products (the consistently profitable products) then you
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
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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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I can’t believe I am entering my 4th year as a Workout Wednesday coach. It has been such an incredible journey so far. I bet you think how do we come up with the challenges all the time? Tableau has such a broad range of calculations and different ways of doing things so that
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday