Introduction Even though May is Tableau Redo month, we took a quick break from the month’s theme last week to check out the amazing new Power BI feature, Field Parameters. The week before last, Kerry Kolosko worked her usual magic to recreate a Tableau dashboard, make sure to check it out here. This week we are […]
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction May is Tableau Redo month, so if you haven’t checked out last week’s report by Kerry Kolosko, make sure to check it out here. Most of the challenges this month have been Power BI remakes of previous Tableau Workout Wednesdays, but this week there was a really big release for the newest version of
2022 Week 21 | Power BI: Field Parameters Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Your challenge this week is to create a Project Budget Tracker leveraging the IT Spend Analysis example dataset available to everyone in Power BI Service. We decided to keep the project management theme going this week with this take on tracking how your project is following the budget. If you did not do last week’s challenge, I
2022 Week 11 | Power BI: Project Budget Tracker Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are creating Gantt Charts in Power BI. It is not required to do all 4 variations, choose one of the options that interests you the most. Each option increases in time and/or experience level. Requirements QUICK MODE Import data Import the Microsoft Gantt Chart from AppSource Place Project Category in the
2022 Week 08 | Power BI: Can you make a Gantt Chart? Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome back to Power BI #WorkoutWednesday – we’re now in week 6! If you’re joining us for the first time, welcome! There are no dependencies on previous weeks – you’re welcome to jump right in with this week’s challenge, where we’ll use AI in Power BI to get an understanding of key influencers of
2022 Week 06 | Power BI: Key Influencers Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome back to Power BI #WorkoutWednesday – week 2! We had incredible participation last week and are so excited to dive in this week with custom page navigation. If this sounds familiar, it’s because we did a similar navigation challenge back in November 2021. In a fortunate turn of events, the Power BI team
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome back to another year of Power BI #WorkoutWednesday! We hope you enjoy the challenges that we are going to present you this year. To get this year started off right, this week’s challenge will be introducing you to a feature that was released in the December 2021 Power BI Desktop release, sparklines. I’ve
2022 Week 01 | Power BI: Sparklines! Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are continuing our design theme by working through a custom formatting hack for line charts. Conditional formatting in Power BI can be tricky at times, especially when trying to format different chart types. If you are familiar with conditionally formatting a line chart, you’ll know that in the Data Colors section
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction We hope that you had a lot of fun with our mapping month in November where we focused a lot on maps and geospatial data in our challenges. This week we are going to be shifting gears and focusing on report design. This week your challenge is to take a report that already has
2021 Week 44 | Power BI: Design My Report! Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to week 3 of mapping month! The Workout Wednesday Power BI team is focusing on maps and geospatial data in Power BI. There are several different maps available in Power BI as default and custom (AppSource) visuals. Last week we explored how to implement custom maps from Mapbox into Power BI. This week we
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday