Introduction Recreating visuals you find online helps you build visual design skills and find workarounds to common problems or feature gaps in Power BI. This week, we are recreating this infographic from Visual Capitalist about the change in global wealth. The original is shown below, followed by my version in Power BI. Requirements Create a […]
2025 Week 27 | Recreate This Wealth Infographic Read More »
Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This week on Workout Wednesday, I’m excited to be back with a fresh challenge and it’s all about progress bars! No custom visuals. No add-ons. Just creativity and some Power BI magic. Why Progress Bars? Progress bars are a great visual tool used to represent progress toward a goal/target
2025 Week 26 | Power BI: Progress Bars Read More »
Introduction This challenge builds upon my last challenge, reusing much of the same logic. Both of them are based on real-world solutions for a client of mine. In the client scenario, we had used a Sankey chart to show whether customer accounts would grow or shrink over time. This worked great at first to show
Week 25 | Power BI: Segments and Scatterplot Read More »
Introduction It’s nice to be invited back by the team, and thanks for having me! While it’s tempting for me to think of something for you explore with the Deneb or HTML Content custom visuals (and I’d still encourage that!), I’d like to continue some of the other threads we’ve recently seen around what we
2025 Week 24 | Power BI: Core Visuals Box Plot Read More »
Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This is my first time creating a Power BI Workout Wednesday exercise, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share it with you all! Thank you for being part of my learning and teaching journey. Let’s grow together! Have you ever wanted to create a Lollipop Chart in Power BI
2025 Week 22 | Power BI: Create a lollipop chart Read More »
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a special three-way dumbbell chart! You may ask, if this is a fixed term? No – I just think that sometimes there are three values that need to be displayed. This is how it will look like – you can easily see that chocolate prices
2025 Week 19 | Dumbbell chart plus Read More »
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building a Control Chart. Control charts can be used to track a specific process measure – such as sales, defects, or processing time – over a period of time. A few common uses are: Manufacturing: Monitoring defect rates and equipment performance Healthcare: Tracking infection rates, patient
2025 Week 17 | Power BI: Create a control chart Read More »
Introduction I’m honored to be added to the team and I’m expecting I’ll be learning as much about dataviz as you are all will. This first challenge comes from the real world, where a simple visual shift made a big difference for a small company. The question from the customer was simple: do new customer
Week 13 | Power BI: Segments and Sanky Read More »
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is all about bringing your data to life with animation! It was inspired by a LinkedIn post from Edward Charles, where he used an SVG measure and the new card visual to create an animated progress bar. Progress bars can be a great way to visually track goals, completion
2025 Week 12 | Power BI: Animated Progress Bar with Edward Charles Read More »
Introduction I’m incredibly honored to be part of this amazing group of Power BI enthusiasts, and I couldn’t be more excited to share my very first Workout Wednesday challenge with you all! Have you ever looked at a visualization and thought, there has to be a better way to present this data? This week, we’re
2025 Week 9 | Power BI: From stacked bar chart to bullet chart Read More »
