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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Introduction Welcome back to Power BI #WorkoutWednesday – week 2! We had incredible participation last week and are so excited to dive in this week with custom page navigation. If this sounds familiar, it’s because we did a similar navigation challenge back in November 2021. In a fortunate turn of events, the Power BI team
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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
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What a first year It’s crazy to think that we’re already done with the inagural year of the Power BI edition of #WorkoutWednesday. We had a great turnout for this year, so we are excited to see where next year takes us. Overall, we had 1,654 participation tracker forms submitted (as of 12/20)! We also
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Introduction As holiday season is upon us, we have created a Power BI Advent Calendar for you to enjoy. Select each day to open a surprise. The surprise for each day will not be available until we reach that day (in UTC time). If you try to open a gift before we have reached the
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Introduction This week we are continuing our design theme and using the waffle chart custom visual. Waffle charts show progress toward a whole or a target percentage, and can be used as an alternative to bar and/or pie charts. The Waffle Chart custom visual in Power BI allows us to customize the icon (here we
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Introduction This week we are continuing our design theme by working through a custom formatting hack for line charts. Conditional formatting in Power BI can be tricky at times, especially when trying to format different chart types. If you are familiar with conditionally formatting a line chart, you’ll know that in the Data Colors section
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Introduction This week we are continuing our design theme by making a report about report design. Color is a very important element in report design. Color contrast is not only important for accessibility, it’s also an element of visual hierarchy. You can also use color contrast as a way to make elements on your report
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Introduction Hello everyone! We at the #WorkoutWednesday Power BI team hope you’ve had a great year of interacting with this awesome community. It’s definitely been a year for growth and learning for us on the Power BI team, so we’re happy that you all have stuck it out with us and continued to contribute amazing
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Introduction We hope that you had a lot of fun last week re-designing Spencer’s report! This week we’re also focusing on design and creating a custom navigation experience using bookmarks and buttons. I am looking for a new place to live and stumbled upon the 2017 State of American Well-Being report. This PDF report details community well-being
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