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🎅 Santa's Christmas Eve Journey in Power BI with Icon Map

jamesdales — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:53:31 GMT

🎅Here's a bit of fun for the holiday season ! 🎅

We loaded the JSON version of the data from NORAD's Santa Tracker site into Power BI and using the Icon Map Slicer visual, mapped Santa's sleigh as it travels around the world. We used the play axis visual to the animate the journey.

The new card visual shows the number of presents delivered and the current UTC time. The new Image visual shows an image from the location at that time.

To go along with it, we used AI to generate a song which is played by a bespoke custom visual we built just for this purpose.

We've created a blog post showing how it was put together and included the .pbix file with this post.

Here's the video of the report

Don't forget to try out the Icon Map Slicer visual that we used for this report.

Happy Holidays everyone!

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Re: 🎅 Santa's Christmas Eve Journey in Power BI with Icon Map

vivmueller — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:32:48 GMT

This is amazing!

And the song is so funny, I had a lot to laugh 😂

Thanks for sharing this!

Re: 🎅 Santa's Christmas Eve Journey in Power BI with Icon Map

Mauro89 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:01:33 GMT

Thanks for sharing jamesdales, the pattern for persistence of previous data with the play axis is very helpful!

Re: 🎅 Santa's Christmas Eve Journey in Power BI with Icon Map

slindsay — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:08:12 GMT

James this is so fun!! Thanks for sharing!

Re: 🎅 Santa's Christmas Eve Journey in Power BI with Icon Map

MohamadJavith — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:49:46 GMT

Nice Dashboard