Cycle Plots Show You Data Insights using Power Pivot

If you want to look for trends based on weekday (Sunday.Saturday) or month-of-the-year seasonality (January.December), Cycle Plots can be a potent visualization tool. Some clever folks thought of this back in 1978, but my education on cycle plots has been from Naomi Robbins' excellent paper. This question was asked during one of our Q&A sessions for the Online Class (Next Class scheduled for Aug 3-4). In this post I'll discuss the Cycle Plot and then we would build it step by step using Power Pivot. Here is the end result we will achieve (animated gif):