Workout Wednesday

2025 Week 53 | Sigma : Can you build a pareto chart?

Introduction Welcome to the final week of 2025! Since it’s a holiday week, we’re keeping things simple with a classic but powerful visualization: the Pareto chart. Your challenge this week is to build a Pareto chart in Sigma that highlights which issue categories contribute the most to overall incident reports. By combining a sorted bar […]

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2025 Week 51 | Power BI: Holiday Traffic: Who Came, Who Left 🎄

Introduction The first snowfall in Denver was unseasonably late this year. So I got curious about the data and decided to make a visualization. While this one does communicate with data, it’s taking a bit of artistic license.  This is your challenge as well: create a first snowfall scatterplot with some wintery visual effects. You

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2025 Week 50 | Sigma: Find the Leak with Hierarchies

Say hi to hierarchies Introduction This week, we’re turning hierarchies into a decision tool. Using Sigma’s ragged hierarchies, hierarchy controls, and funnel charts, you’ll build a Campaign Leak Finder that pinpoints exactly where your funnel is breaking down. You’ll create a navigable tree from Lead through Campaign, wire it to a live funnel, and layer

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#WOW2025 | Week 50 | Top 1% of Customers by Profit OR Sales OR Quantity

Introduction For my last challenge of the year, I decided to make it a little spicier. It has parameters, it has fun calculations, it has AND/OR logic, and it has a dynamic title that is worthy of your attention. Here’s hoping you can apply all those skills you’ve gained this year to sail through this

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2025 Week 49 | Power BI: Join the last QuickViz Challenge

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re partnering with the Fabric Community team for their final QuickViz challenge! The idea is simple: create a single visual, upload the .pbix to the Fabric Community, and browse the other entries to see what you can learn!   Read more about the challenge in the Fabric Community. Let’s

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