Introduction This week, I’m taking a break from analysis to look at some interesting ways to create apps within Sigma. I decided to challenge myself to see how close I could get to building out the functionality for Wordle inside of Sigma, and I was really happy with the results. Let’s dig in and learn […]
2025 Week 03 | Sigma: Can you play Wordle? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to year 2 of Workout Wednesday, we’re here to help you keep good on your New Year’s resolutions of learning new skills and getting your teeth cleaned. The data for this week comes from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) website, which has a lot of interesting survey data to explore. They have
2025 Week 01 | Sigma: Can you visualize NHIS data? Read More »
Introduction I felt like I was seeing more news about food recalls lately, and I did the thing any good data-minded individual would do: pulled down data from the FDA to see if what I’m feeling is backed up by data. When I pulled the data down from, I realized there was still a lot
2024 Week 47 | Sigma: Can you analyze recalls? Read More »
Introduction This week, I wanted to highlight Sigma’s actions once again, as we got a new update a last week: The ability to change date controls via actions! Pairing this new feature with the ‘Conditions’ beta feature in actions, we can create more user-friendly date filtering with much less hassle. Stay up to date on changes to
2024 Week 43 | Sigma: Can you create a segmented date control? Read More »
Introduction This week, I wanted to challenge myself to do something I didn’t know how to do in Sigma, I wanted to start laying the groundwork to do sensitivity analysis. I’ve often thought this would be possible in Sigma, since we can connect to Snowflake User-Defined Functions (UDFs) via Sigma’s function bar to call models
2024 Week 39 | Sigma: Can you test out changes in cost? Read More »
Introduction Have I expressed my deep appreciation for Input Tables? With Snowflake or Databricks, we can write back to the database, which allows for some great methods of simplifying getting user-maintained information into a database. Even though I am a big fan of input tables, it’s still risky to allow users to edit a database
2024 Week 35 | Sigma: Can you create a support request form? Read More »
Introduction I’ve always appreciated when developers take the time to incorporate images into their visualizations, whether it’s as simple as adding an up arrow / down arrow to denote positive or negative trends, or going all the way to showing a business’s/team’s logo when referring to them in a table. This week, I wanted to
2024 Week 31 | Sigma: Can you set Image Links? Read More »
Introduction I’ve always liked tracking my personal finances, partly out of necessity (I was a freelance musician for nearly a decade and I needed to keep track of *every* expense). Even before I got into data, I appreciated seeing my personal finances visualized cleanly so I could answer questions like ‘Did I spend too much
2024 Week 27 | Sigma: Can you create a Cashflow Chart? Read More »
Introduction A few weeks ago, the 19th Police District of Chicago emailed me with some interesting survey data. The visualizations were useful, but they were living inside of a Google Slides presentation, and I wanted to dig deeper into the results. Thankfully, I followed my nose to their community survey website and found that they
2024 Week 24 | Sigma: Can you add custom map layers? Read More »
Introduction This week, I was inspired by a post in the Sigma Community from Mark Ruesink that showed a really clever way to visualize outliers in Sigma using a combo chart and some clever calculations. Mark goes all the way to visualizing outliers, so I definitely recommend checking out his full post, but I wanted
2024 Week 21 | Sigma: Can you set some boundaries? Read More »
