Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday we will be using “What-If” Parameters to show Top N values based on user selection. What-If Parameters can allow your audience to have more self-service interaction with the dashboard. For this challenge, we will be visualizing the Top N Movies based on Worldwide sales, as well as leveraging conditional formatting to […]
2021 Week 37 | Power BI: What-If Parameters Read More »
Introduction Tables, tables, tables…Love them, or hate them, we, Power BI developers, can’t live without them. Our users too. However, who says that we must provide our users with “normal”, old-fashioned tables? This week, with little creativity and magic, we will push table visual experience to a whole new level! The report below shows data about
2021 Week 33 | Power BI: Create Magic Tables Read More »
Introduction This week we are collaborating with Preppin’ Data to get a close look at the schedule for the 2020 Olympic Games! We’re also collaborating with the Tableau team and we invite you to take a look at both challenges! With the opening ceremony 2 days away, we thought we’d visualize the schedule in our own time zone. We encourage you
2021 Week 29 | Power BI: Let’s Watch the Olympics! Read More »
Introduction This is our last week using the Nobel Prize data. We are again looking at the age of the laureate when they were awarded the prize. This time we will examine it using a histogram. Histograms measure the distribution of data within defined ranges. So we are calculating age and creating bins of equal
2021 Week 26 | Power BI: Make a Histogram with Equal Size Bins Read More »
Introduction This week we are building on Meagan and David’s challenges using the Nobel Prize data. We’re also continuing on our customization journey and will have a bit of fun using unicode values. Unicode is a standard numeric value that represents a character, which can easily be transformed into a character in Power BI using a bit
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Introduction This week we are continuing with the Nobel laureates data and taking a look at gender diversity of Nobel laureates. We’ll do this by using an isotype visualization. Isotype visuals use an icon that is related to the subject matter being depicted and often use multiples to represent quantitative data. You can learn more about
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Introduction The Power BI Workout Wednesday team has decided that May is made for DAX! Each challenge this month will require some DAX in the solution. For this week’s solution we are going to practice DAX time intelligence functions, looking at the housing market in the US state of Connecticut. Time intelligence functions allow you to
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Introduction The Power BI Workout Wednesday team has decided that May is made for DAX! Each challenge this month will require some DAX in the solution. For this week’s solution we are going to practice creating some tables in Power BI Desktop using DAX to help us answer some questions! Did you know that you can
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Introduction Thanks to everyone who has ben participating in #WorkoutWednesday – Power BI edition! We have had an amazing 953 submissions for the Power BI challenges at the time of writing this post. If you haven’t been submitting your tracker upon completion, make sure to fill it out at this link. This week we are
2021 Week 16 | Power BI: Intro to Charticulator Read More »
Power BI Conditional Formatting using Background Color, Font Color, and Icons
2021 Week 13 | Power BI: Create a Bubble Chart with a Custom Overlay Read More »
