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11-29-2025 23:48 PM - last edited 11-30-2025 01:23 AM
🎅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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James this is so fun!! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing @jamesdales, the pattern for persistence of previous data with the play axis is very helpful!
This is amazing!
And the song is so funny, I had a lot to laugh 😂
Thanks for sharing this!