Introduction Welcome to Week 43 of 2025! This visual was built to make change visible. The goal was not just to show numbers, but to tell a quick, visual story of how performance moves from one point to another. Each line represents a small comparison between two dates or periods. When the line is green, […]
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Happy Workout Wednesday, data fam! Week 42, we’re taking a step behind the visuals—because every great report deserves a great Info Page! Your report might tell the what, but your info page explains the why—and that’s where real understanding begins. No fancy tools, no measures — just thoughtful design and storytelling. Your challenge: Build an
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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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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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Introduction In this challenge, we are looking to add a bar with custom logic to a bar chart. Sometimes when I’m working with a customer, they want a baseline, total, or reference point to be included in the column of a column chart or the row of a table. If it’s just a matter of
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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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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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Introduction When building reports, one of the most common requests I hear from users is: “Can I see the top three, top five, or top ten items without having to look at multiple visuals?” The good news: yes, you can! And it’s cleaner than ever with numeric range parameters in Power BI. In this week’s
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Introduction It’s good to be back again, and a bit sooner than last time! This time, we will be creating a visual using Deneb. Deneb has featured a lot in WoW, which I’m very grateful for, but I’ve yet to submit and exercise for it. As such, I wanted to try something that would help
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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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