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2025 Week 40 | Power BI: Announcing the DataViz World Champion

Introduction Workout Wednesday crew! Did you know that Microsoft is now hosting a Dataviz World Championships every year, twice a year? The premise is that you create a report for a preliminary round (or rounds), and 4 finalists are then selected to compete live on-stage at the Fabric Community Conference (FabCon).  I just returned from […]

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2025 Week 36 | Power BI: Area between timeseries smoothing

Introduction This weeks challenge is an extension of week 21, whereby we will create a timeseries smoothing over lines rather than scatter points. The challenge here is to emphasize the difference between two populations, whilst having the details visible, but not prominent – getting the opacity/strokedash (for overlapping lines) and colour contrast (for perceptibility) right

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2025 Week 35 | Grouped Field Parameters in a Matrix

Introduction Welcome to Week 35 of 2025!  When building reports in Power BI, one of the most common requests I hear from users is: “Can I explore different KPIs side by side without creating dozens of visuals?” The good news: yes, you can! And it’s cleaner than ever with field parameters grouped by category. In

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2025 Week 32 | Build a Waffle Chart using Core Visuals

Introduction This week, we’re cooking up something a little different – waffle charts! Your challenge is to build a report that compares actual sales to a dynamic monthly target and visualizes progress in a clean, impactful way. Requirements Get and Prepare Data Start by downloading the CSV file provided. It contains 8 columns: ORDERNUMBER QUANTITYORDERED

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2025 Week 31 | Recreate a winning #PBI10 entry

Introduction This week we’re challenging you to recreate a single visual element from one of the winning reports from the #PBI10 dataviz championship. The contest took place over the past month and there were four winners, so, you have four reports to choose from! The entries in this challenge represent a wide range of visual styles, analysis,

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2025 Week 30 | Power BI: Bar chart with built-in scales ????

Introduction Happy Workout Wednesday, data fam! This week, we’re taking bar charts to the next level—with built-in scales that visually speak for themselves! We all love a good bar chart, but sometimes you want to show progress toward a goal or segment values into performance zones – without extra visuals, DAX trickery, or custom backgrounds. Just

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2025 Week 29 | Next level tooltip

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday!  This week we’re building a special tooltip.It will include flags, and some special custom formatting. Want to learn, how to create a tooltip like this?Let’s do it! Requirements Download the sample data from the Data World Website – part 1 and part 2. [Note: Data.World requires you to create a

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