2026

#WOW2026 | Week 7 | Exploring Table Calcs vs LODs

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Introduction Hello everyone, I’m very happy to be back for another year of Workout Wednesday! For my first challenge, I wanted to focus on something that every Tableau learner will encouter: Table Calculations and Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations, and what is the difference between them? Well, sometimes only one of these types of calculations […]

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2026 Week 06 | Sigma: Can you build an AI Help Desk?

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Introduction Did you know you can call Snowflake Cortex AI functions directly within Sigma? Sigma Workflow Conference in San Francisco is right around the corner, and we will build an AI Chatbot in a Sigma workbook to help users find answers to conference related questions.  This AI App focused challenge will walk you through the

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#WOW2026 | Week 6 | Can you account for nulls in your averages?

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Introduction  I am excited to begin my third year as a Workout Wednesday coach! This year, I remain committed to providing challenges that help you flex your Tableau muscles and maintain your analytical strength. This week’s challenge is inspired by a real-world scenario I encountered recently. While building a dashboard to track service usage, I

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#WOW2026 | Week 5 | KPI Trend Monitor with Period Comparison

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Introduction Thanks to tools like Tableau MCP, AI can now handle deep-dive data analysis for us. Ask it “why is this metric dropping?” and you’ll get a pretty solid answer. But before that step — noticing that something looks off in the first place — that’s still on us, looking at a dashboard. This week,

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2026 Week 04 | Sigma: Can you Make a Repeating Container?

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Introduction This week’s challenge features the new Repeating Container element, which is a powerful new visual that can display feed-like information quickly and easily. Today, I want to show you how you can use this feature to make more detailed KPI-like cards in your workbooks. This feature is still in beta – are there any things

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#WOW2026 | Week 4 | Can you create a dynamic moving average?

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Introduction Happy New Year everyone, my turn comes round awfully quickly these days. As it’s still the start of 2026, I didn’t want to go too hard too quick. Hopefully this isn’t too bad. We are flexing our Table Calc, Date and Order of Operations skills in this challenge. Have fun! Click to open in

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2026 Week 03 | Sigma: Running Feedback Loop

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Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday is about turning feedback into part of the workflow, not a side conversation. You’ll build a lightweight, in-workbook feedback loop in Sigma that lets stakeholders flag issues directly on tables and charts, with context intact. Instead of comments that disappear or Slack messages that pile up, feedback becomes structured, reviewable,

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#WOW2026 | Week 3 | Can you create KPI cards with viz extensions?

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Introduction Last month I had some colleagues that were able to attend DataFam Europe, and a few of them came back saying how much they enjoyed Tristan Guillevin’s presentation and asked if we could get his viz extensions for our Cloud site. In the process, I decided to play with a few, and since they

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#WOW2026 | Week 2 | Can you create a fake Viz in Tooltip?

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Introduction Welcome back to #WOW2026! Thank you all for your continued support, and for bearing with us while we carried out some maintenance on the website. For the first challenge of the year, I’m asking you to recreate a technique that was originally introduced way back in 2010, and re-shared during a ‘tips and tricks’

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