Introduction Welcome to Week 28 of 2025! This week, we’re going to practice a newer feature of Sigma: Custom Context Menu Options. When combined with a series of actions, these options can really beef up your data application, allowing you to guide the user to new insights more easily than simply drilling down. Good luck! […]
2025 Week 28 | Sigma: Can you provide context? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week 24 of 2025! This week, we’re going to illustrate the difference between two of Sigma’s newer features: Modals and Popovers. These layout elements are very similar, but have slightly different functionality and visual differences. Good luck! -Ashley Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to WOW Sigma Instance
2025 Week 24 | Sigma: Do you see the difference? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week 20 of 2025! This week, I’m going to be a little less prescriptive than I have been in the past. This week isn’t too difficult if you’re familiar with some of Sigma’s long-standing features, like table groupings and lineage. I believe in you! You are going to learn to use a
2025 Week 20 | Sigma: Can you find the most popular? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week 16 of 2025! Input tables are one of the coolest features of Sigma, and recently, their actions received a serious upgrade. Now, you can update or delete a row in an input table, instead of just adding a new row. This week, you will be using sample housing data from Denver
2025 Week 16 | Sigma: Can you update and delete? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week 12 of 2025! If you’ve been developing workbooks for long enough, you’ve likely seen end users request a large amount of filters on a single page. That can take a ton of real estate. How do you balance the flexibility of a ton of controls with the overall usability of your
2025 Week 12 | Sigma: Can you save space? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week 6 of 2025! This week, we’re going to learn how to calculate a rolling metric, or moving sum. We’re going to use some sample Marketing Data to help us assess trends over time. We’re going to combine with some dynamic parameters to select which metric to calculate and how granular we
2025 Week 6 | Sigma: Can you roll with it? Read More »
Introduction It’s my first challenge of 2025! This week, we’re going to learn a new Sigma feature: Modals. Modals are pop-up windows that could be used for many things, like a form for an input table or to provide more detailed information. We’re going to use them to provide a breakdown on an Executive Summary.
2025 Week 4 | Sigma: Can you pop a breakdown? Read More »
Introduction It’s the last challenge of 2024! Whether you’ve been with us all year or are joining us for the first time, welcome! With the holiday season in full swing, we are keeping it light this week. We’re going to analyze some holiday movie data that I sourced from Kaggle. This dataset found movies on
2024 Week 52 | Sigma: Can you analyze these Holiday Movies? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week Forty-Eight! This week, I am heavily focused on my Thanksgiving preparations, so naturally, we will be taking our Workout Wednesday to the kitchen. I asked Chat GPT to generate us a dataset involving popular Thanksgiving dishes by state. We’re going to use that to utilize some newer features, like a conditional
2024 Week 48 | Sigma: Can you map these Thanksgiving Dishes? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week Forty-Four! This week, I wanted to have a little fun because not only is Thursday Halloween, but it’s also my birthday. As someone who loves data and shares her birthday with a holiday, I am interested to see just how common holiday birthdays are. In this challenge, you will use a couple
2024 Week 44 | Sigma: How likely is a holiday birthday? Read More »
