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 […]
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Introduction It’s nice to be invited back by the team, and thanks for having me! While it’s tempting for me to think of something for you explore with the Deneb or HTML Content custom visuals (and I’d still encourage that!), I’d like to continue some of the other threads we’ve recently seen around what we
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Introduction In this week’s challenge, we’re going to recreate a very small part of Kathryn McCrindle’s (Linked In / X ) #TC25 Iron Viz. Kathryn is a colleague of mine at Biztory, and made it through to the Iron Viz final at TC25 in San Diego. In 20 minutes, she built this impressive suite of
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Introduction Have I ever talked about how much I love table calcs? They are super powerful and often more performant than the often overused LOD expression. So that’s what we’re going to practice this week. Can you create a control chart only using table calcs? Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements 1 sheet create
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Introduction It’s Stanley Cup Playoff day, and I must EDMit I have a preference for who I’d like to win. This week, I’m revisiting an old challenge I made and improving it by using Sigma’s new “Transpose” functionality. This little gem slipped in without me noticing and has been a beautiful addition to my Sigma
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Introduction What do you want to highlight on hover? Practice with the Deneb Custom Visual. This week’s challenge was created using the Deneb custom visual in Power BI. I was inspired by the many examples on the Vega-Lite website. The chart displays Sales and Profit grouped by country and segment, based on a sample Power
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Can you create a modal? Introduction Think a bran muffin is a healthier choice than a breakfast sandwich? Think again. This week’s challenge throws Starbucks and McDonald’s into the ring — matching menu items with the same calorie count but wildly different nutritional makeups. Spoiler: one of them is a lentil bowl, the other is
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Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This is my first time creating a Power BI Workout Wednesday exercise, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share it with you all! Thank you for being part of my learning and teaching journey. Let’s grow together! Have you ever wanted to create a Lollipop Chart in Power BI
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Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by Robbin Vernooij & Lorna Brown’s talk from Tableau Conference this year (TC25) titled ‘Taming the Beast: Normalization Strategies in Tableau’ Normalization allows us to examine the relative importance of values that may be on completely different scales. A common example of where we use normalization is when we
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Introduction When looking at timeseries data, we may encounter high variability from one week to the next, creating highly jagged and difficult to read charts. There are a number of techniques to smooth the lines to better depict trend. Some may use rolling averages, others, like YouGov, use LOESS regression. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/how-often-brits-exercise In this weeks challenge
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