Introduction Hello and welcome to Week 34! Let’s get the fun started this week with Rows and Columns Total in the Pivot Table! Yes, you heard that right, we want to sum the rows and columns and yet have all the data show. Requirements Create a dev org or use an existing org you have […]
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CRM Analytics
Introduction This post is special! It has been sent by Pedro Gagliadri who has been working on CRM Analytics since it was called Wave! Yes, some of us have been using this tool forever! Now for the challenge: This Outliers Detection will use Z-Scores. Prepare a recipe and a dashboard that allows you to see
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CRM Analytics
Introduction We are already into the mid 2024 and hope you are ready for another challenge! This is hopefully easier than some of the previous challenges we have set in CRM Analytics this year! It contains windowing function with input widgets. Yes, you read that right! Two great tools that can make your and your
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CRM Analytics, Workout Wednesday
Introduction It’s the 18th week of the year and time for another CRM Analytics challenge! This week’s task is to rank the energy dataset by country for each year and create one chart out of it. This chart will show the least and most energy consumed based on the type of energy consumption selected. Sounds
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CRM Analytics, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Another month another week and we are already in the second quarter of the year! Let’s start this quarter strong and use timeseries in dashboards. This week is based on similar dataset as the week 4 and 9 but has been organized by energy types as a column! The challenge is to create a
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CRM Analytics
Introduction Almost the end of February! Time flies fast! – And another WoW Challenge is here!! This week is based on the same dataset and maps we had as a challenge during Week 4! The changes are adding one KPI, and one top 5 chart to the existing dashboard. Then add an Interaction (not binding)
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CRM Analytics, Workout Wednesday
Introduction We are already into the 4th week of the year – WOW!! My first time creating a WoW challenge. This one is based on maps! Yes, I know CRM Analytics maps make us desire for better versions, but we can always do cool things with what already exists. But, but… this one is not
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CRM Analytics, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Workout Wednesday 2023, Power BI edition! If this is your first time joining us, we’re happy you’re here. The goal of this initiative is to help you build your Power BI skills. We provide the data and the instructions, and you build the visuals! We hope you have fun and learn a new
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction We’ve had modals for awhile, but Sigma has introduced a similar concept with its new Drawers feature. I think they look great, and work really well for storing form data. This is a beta feature, so if you have feedback, please share and help shape the feature! Need access to Sigma? Click Here to
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are exploring the Pareto Principle; the 80:20 rule, which states that roughly 80% of our consequences from from 20% of causes. Inspired by the #WorkoutWednesday by Lisa Hitch, we are going to see if 20% of our Superstore customers make up 80% of our Total Sales. To visually aid our users,
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Last week I was reminded of an Old Workout Wednesday from TC18. This week I chose to replicate (but simplify) the task. No super fancy calcs, simple Sets (and maybe an IF statement or two) Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard 1000 x 800. 1 Sheet Create Sets for Top & Bottom
Introduction This week, we are utilising new features from the July 2026 Power BI update. With this update, conditional formatting can be now be applied on graphs with a categorical legend. This weeks challenge will look to create a cumulative line graph of vaccination rates across population groups (either age or ethnicity), banded by %
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I have been running an experimental fork of the Tableau MCP server, trying to make dashboards live inside an AI chat. The piece I am most excited about is the viz state snapshot. You filter the embedded dashboard, the model gets told what you are now looking at, and it can go query the
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 26 of 2026! Sigma Agent allows you to read, write, and execute actions natively within the workbook, data sources, and input tables. This challenge showcases how you may build last-mile data prep into a workbook with Sigma Agent. The example setup requires a Linked Input Table to store output from Sigma
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week, we have another new contributor to Workout Wednesday for Power BI: Cameron Ayre. Give Cameron’s challenge a try! This week, we’re creating smoothed lines with a handy LOESS measure. We’ll use it to turn noisy data like this: Into this: Kerry Kolosko challenged us to do this last year , with Deneb
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this week’s challenge, I’m asking you to build a viz I put together that visualises the the tennis career of the current men’s world #1 and 2026 Wimbledon champion, Jannik Sinner. There’s a fair amount going on, so I appreciate this may take a while to completely replicate. If time is short, the
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 29 of 2026! This week, we’re going to create an approval process. In the past, we’ve created one using Insert Row and Update Row(s) actions. In this version, we will utilize Sigma’s new Insert Row(s) action to create an activity stream. With this new action, we can allow for tabular inputs,
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction One of the first “unique” chart types I ever learnt to visualise in a BI tool has since become one of my favourites, the Peas-in-a-Pod chart. This chart can be a great way to visualise the change between multiple data points. For example, in this challenge, we will be exploring how the IMDB ratings
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday