Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This week on Workout Wednesday, I’m excited to be back with a fresh challenge and it’s all about progress bars! No custom visuals. No add-ons. Just creativity and some Power BI magic. Why Progress Bars? Progress bars are a great visual tool used to represent progress toward a goal/target […]
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This may seem like a seeming normal line and area chart but I said “Why Tableau” numerous times when trying to create it.You want to be able to see the Top X customers per Quarter and what their percentage of total sales is. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 800×800 1
#WOW2025 Week 26: Can you create this seemingly simple line chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This challenge builds upon my last challenge, reusing much of the same logic. Both of them are based on real-world solutions for a client of mine. In the client scenario, we had used a Sankey chart to show whether customer accounts would grow or shrink over time. This worked great at first to show
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 25 of 2025! This week, we’re going to work with tabbed containers and show how to easily navigate the end user to new content without the need for additional pages in your workbook. This helps save precious real estate on your dashboard and creates a seamless user experience. Good luck! -Jess
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Set actions came out almost 7 years ago, and only had about 3 quarters in the spotlight until parameter actions came out. Both are very powerful, but I would venture that most people (myself included) tend to use parameter actions more. So here’s your chance to give Set actions a go. Shortly after Set
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
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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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
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
#WOW2025 | WEEK 24 | Can you Iron Viz? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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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Sigma, Workout Wednesday