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2026 Week 21 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 4

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump […]

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2026 Week 20 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 3

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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2026 Week 19 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 2

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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2026 Week 18 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 1

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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2026 Week 14 | Power BI: Drive insights with a simple table

Introduction   This week we’re going to build everyone’s favorite Power BI visual, a table! Tables are often dismissed as boring or “not visual enough,” but they’re also one of the most powerful tools we have for making decisions – when they’re designed with intent. In this workout, we’ll start with a very simple table

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2026 Week 12 | Power BI: Custom matrix subtotals and cards with categories

Introduction This week we are looking at some newer core visuals and formatting features: cards that in a segmented tile layout, a slicer that supports partial text matching, and a matrix where the percentage-of-total calculation changes meaning depending on whether you’re looking at a subtotal or a detail row.  The bonus challenge pushes into SVG-in-DAX

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2025 Week 49 | Power BI: Join the last QuickViz Challenge

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re partnering with the Fabric Community team for their final QuickViz challenge! The idea is simple: create a single visual, upload the .pbix to the Fabric Community, and browse the other entries to see what you can learn!   Read more about the challenge in the Fabric Community. Let’s

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2025 Week 47 | Power BI: Join a(nother) QuickViz Challenge

Introduction This week we’re partnering with the Microsoft Fabric Community team to bring you a set of challenges that are taking place over the next month as a part of Fabric Data Days. Each week, they post a new mini-challenge, aimed at anyone looking to practice dataviz skills, explore new visuals, and engage with the

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2025 Week 46 | Power BI: Join a QuickViz Challenge

Introduction This week we’re partnering with the Microsoft Fabric Community team to bring you a set of challenges that are taking place over the next month as a part of Fabric Data Days. Each week, they post a new mini-challenge, aimed at anyone looking to practice dataviz skills, explore new visuals, and engage with the

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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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