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2026 Week 36 | Power BI: Create an Unemployment Waffle Chart

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re exploring parts to a whole using a waffle chart and unemployment data. This visual was inspired by Steven Ponce, whose work has been a great source of inspiration for me. It also builds on my previous Workout Wednesday waffle chart, giving me an opportunity to revisit […]

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2026 Week 35 | Power BI: Ternary Charts for Cross-Sell

Introduction Traditional customer rankings tell us who generates the most revenue, but they do not explain what those customers buy. A customer may be highly valuable and still buy almost entirely from one product category – which makes the next conversation much clearer than a generic “upsell” message. This week, build a Customer Cross-Sell Map in

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2026 Week 34 | Power BI: Visualizing WoW Chart Choices

Introduction Last week’s bump chart reminded me of one of our early challenges from 2021, where David turned a ribbon chart into a bump chart. We’ve done other bump chart challenges over the years, so give them a try if you haven’t already.  This made me curious about trends in chart selection in our challenges.

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2026 Week 33 | Power BI: Bump Chart using Native Line Chart

Introduction A bump chart is a fun way to see how rankings change over time. It makes those ups and downs really easy to follow, without getting lost in a bunch of numbers. You can quickly spot who’s moving up, who’s dropping down, and who’s staying consistent. Think of it as turning rankings into a

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2026 Week 32 | Power BI: Pareto Chart with Colored Backgrounds

Introduction This week we are exploring the Pareto Principle; the 80:20 rule, which states that roughly 80% of our consequences from from 20% of causes.  Inspired by the #WorkoutWednesday by Lisa Hitch, we are going to see if 20% of our Superstore customers make up 80% of our Total Sales. To visually aid our users,

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2026 Week 28 | Power BI: Redesign a KPI monitor for the CHO

Introduction Imagine, your company hired a Chief Happiness Officer (CHO). Their job: keep the office running smoothly. Coffee stocked, ping-pong table used, no-show meetings under control. They ask for a dashboard. Your first instinct? KPI cards. One per metric, previous value, delta, nice arrow. Clean. Visual. The CHO loves it. Until there are more metrics.

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2026 Week 26 | Power BI: Visualizing Affordability Using a Dumbbell Chart

Introduction This week, we have another new contributor to Workout Wednesday for Power BI: Nabha Ahmed. Give Nabha’s challenge a try! In this challenge, we explore a data visualization technique called a dumbbell chart. A dumbbell chart is used to compare two related values within the same category. It displays both values as points connected

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2026 Week 24 | Power BI : Infographic Makeover

Introduction In this week’s challenge we are replicating or doing a makeover on a bodily injuries Infographic, with your choice of two datasets. The design inspiration comes from Safe Work Australia’s Key Statistics   Use your imagination and think about ways you can improve the visual presentation of your dataset of choice. Extra points for

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2026 Week 10 | Power BI: Dynamic visibility of visuals

Introduction This challenge focuses on a powerful Power BI technique: conditional visibility using overlapping visuals and dynamic transparency. Instead of hiding visuals entirely, you’ll learn to control visibility through background color transparency – making elements appear and disappear based on user selections. Based on the selection of countries, we are looking at differences in foreign

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