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Introduction In the December 2023 release of Power BI Desktop, some new formatting options were added for bar charts. These enhancements allow us to add borders around bars (and segments of bars for stacked bar charts), change the transparency of the fill color in a bar, and add secondary metrics to data labels.  With the […]

Introduction Happy holidays to everyone who celebrates! Join us this week to get some help shopping for your friends and family, using a dataset you provide and a random number generator in Power Query. If Clippy can’t pick a gift, no one can! Have fun and create the random gift generator in whatever way you

Introduction The November 2023 release of Power BI Desktop includes the new button slicer visual. This visual can currently be used as a replacement for the original slicer visual when using tiles. There are more enhancements to come, but we already have a lot more control over the formatting of the slicer. We can add

Introduction This week for Workout Wednesday we are performing RFM (recency, frequency and monetary value) analysis. RFM Analysis is a marketing technique used to quantitatively rank and group customers based on the recency, frequency and monetary total of their recent transactions. A score of 1 to 5 is assigned for each of the three main factors.

Introduction For this week’s challenge, we will be creating dynamic text boxes to introduce our visuals and tell a story around our data. This is differentiated from the “smart narrative” visual in that we will customize the text and measures that we display to create our own narrative. In the example below, you’ll notice that

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re building some basic visuals and use dynamic titles to visualize gas prices in the Rocky Mountain Region of the US (where I live!) over the past 3 years from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Be sure you’re using the June 2023 version of Power BI desktop or later