Introduction This week’s challenge: recreate a Tale visualization with a twist. The goal is to show revenue growth over time for 100 companies, grouped into: • Rocket Ships• Fast Growers• Slow Burners The catch? Sigma doesn’t separate “line identity” and “color grouping” the way most tools do. So the real challenge isn’t the chart. It’s […]
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Every week I’m reminded at how much people struggle with containers in Tableau. So I thought why not make another challenge to see how people get on. I’ll be giving you the solution file and it’s your job to recreate the same item hierarchy Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1200×800
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This challenge focuses on a powerful Power BI technique: conditional visibility using overlapping visuals and dynamic transparency. Instead of hiding visuals entirely, you’ll learn to control visibility through background color transparency – making elements appear and disappear based on user selections. Based on the selection of countries, we are looking at differences in foreign
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week, we will leverage AI functions and CallNumber warehouse functions to explore the possibility of Sigma’s scheduled action trigger. Imagine you are the branch manager of a customer support center and a ticket assignment has to be sent out every morning to all your agents, such that each agent will have a list
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Frequent Workout Wednesday participant Jack Hineman reached out to me last week saying he had just come up with something at work he thought would make a good WOW challenge. He sent it to me and it looked really interesting, so we’ve got a guest challenge this week. Here’s Jack: I have been debating
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 9 of 2026! This week, we’re going to explore using a form to bulk update multiple rows of an input table. As a bonus, we will also play with custom sorting controls. Good luck! -Ashley Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to WOW Sigma Instance Youtube Click
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we’re going to build out a parallel coordinates chart – a type of visualisation used to display and compare multiple numerical measures. My daughter, Mia, is an academy level footballer and wears a stats vest in matches and training to capture lots of data about her performance. I’d been meaning to try
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to week 9! I recently had a client reach out about some advanced navigation and filtering requests for their dashboard. It combined elements of Dynamic Zone Visibility and different types of filter actions. And I thought it was the perfect challenge for this week so here ya go! Click to open in Tableau
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community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I’m so excited to introduce Forms to everyone – this feature is a key part of most data apps I build. They can help speed up development and maintain apps over time. So let’s dig in and see how forms can help us simplify actions and data apps. Need access to Sigma? Click Here to
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday challenge was Numbers of Different Magnitudes, but the bigger lesson for me was this: You can build custom analytical experiences in Sigma using AI. For this submission, I used AI-assisted coding to create a custom Sigma plugin (React + D3) that goes beyond standard chart behavior. It combines a magnitude view
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday