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2026 Week 19 | Sigma: AI Credit Risk Analysis

Introduction This week’s challenge explores something entirely new for Sigma – calling an external AI API directly from a workbook action. Using Sigma’s API Connector and Action Sequences, you’ll build a Credit Risk Intelligence app that sends live loan data to Claude’s AI and displays a real-time risk explanation – all without leaving Sigma. Need Access […]

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Sigma, Workout Wednesday

#WOW2026 | Week 19 | Can you visualise Customer Spend Insights?

Introduction I was struggling to think of a challenge for this week, so I went back to the archives and found this one. This is looking at Customer Spend Insights, which is looking at their first & second purchase, and whether they are deemed as Outliers or not You have the option to choose between

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Tableau, Workout Wednesday

2026 Week 19 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 2

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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Power BI, Workout Wednesday

2026 Week 18 | Sigma: AI Sentiment Analysis with Snowflake Cortex

Introduction Imagine you are the Senior Customer Success Manager at a SaaS company that runs on a subscription model, and you are responsible for reviewing complaint resolutions proposed by junior-level agents.  This week, we are bringing Snowflake AI_Sentiment(), AI_Classify(), and AI_Complete() functions into Sigma AI App. Snowflake Cortex AI will help you identify the customer’s

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Sigma, Workout Wednesday

#WOW2026 | Week 18 | Let’s Visualize TC25! (#TC26 Live Edition)

Introduction This challenge was released at the TC26 Workout Wednesday session. Whether you’re here in the room or finding it later, I hope you’ll have fun! In this challenge, we’ll visualize the sessions of Tableau Conference itself. Three difficulty tiers are available, so pick the one that matches your confidence and give it a try.

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Tableau, Workout Wednesday

2026 Week 18 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 1

Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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Power BI, Workout Wednesday

2026 Week 17 | Sigma: Let’s Waste Some Time

Introduction Welcome to Week 17 of 2026! This week, we’re going to play with a newer feature in Sigma:  Pixel Perfect Reporting.  We’re going to create a report that examines food waste which could be scheduled to export to various food truck executives on a weekly basis.  Note:  Reports cannot be shared publicly, so to

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Sigma, Workout Wednesday

#WOW2026 | Week 17 | Can you build a radar chart using viz extensions?

Introduction Since I jumped the gun on Community Month with Jack’s guest challenge last time around, I was exploring some of the other viz extensions from LaDataViz, when I came upon a radar chart. Since Donna’s challenge last week was a radar chart inspired by a community member technique, I thought it would be interesting

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Tableau, Workout Wednesday

2026 Week 17 | Power BI: Create a Double-Sided Stem-and-Leaf Plot

Introduction Inspired by a previous Tableau challenge, we are making a double-sided stem-and-leaf plot, but we are using a different dataset and showing the observed petal length of two species of iris. A stem-and-leaf plot displays numerical data by splitting each value into a “stem” (leading digit) and a “leaf” (trailing digit), arranging them so

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Power BI, Workout Wednesday

2026 Week 16 | Can you check the weather?

Introduction Sigma has been adding functionality that has taken the app from a fantastic BI solution to an outstanding Application building tool. One of the features that helps with that is the introduction of API Actions. With API Actions, you can retrieve data from outside sources and send data out to other sources. The challenge today is

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