Introduction Welcome to Week 36 of 2026! This week, we’re going to create a basic ordering workflow. When you build your workflow, I encourage you to use two new functions that Sigma released last week: TextJoin and LookupMatchNulls. We have moved our Workout Wednesdays to Sigma Public. Be sure to build your version there! Good […]
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re exploring parts to a whole using a waffle chart and unemployment data. This visual was inspired by Steven Ponce, whose work has been a great source of inspiration for me. It also builds on my previous Workout Wednesday waffle chart, giving me an opportunity to revisit
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction We know that Tableau can be used for really great executive dashboards and analytic explorations, but one of the things that I love using Tableau the most for is storytelling. Especially whenever you can combine that with a map, Tableau can do some pretty incredible things. This week, for Workout Wednesday, we’re going
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week I wanted to use Tableau Publics WebEdit to build a viz with one of their published datasources. Granted not all of the formatting options are there that I would like, so some of the chart choices are a bit wackier than they would be in Desktop. I would have love to have
Introduction Traditional customer rankings tell us who generates the most revenue, but they do not explain what those customers buy. A customer may be highly valuable and still buy almost entirely from one product category – which makes the next conversation much clearer than a generic “upsell” message. This week, build a Customer Cross-Sell Map in
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 34 of 2026! Do you leverage Sigma Input Tables to produce critical data that supports downstream data marts, joins, or reporting that could be impacted by a breaking change? This example shows you how you may leverage multiple layers of Sigma Input Tables to create a staging area that checks values
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week is all about maps. Tableau has always been strong with maps, but this time we’ll push it further using Dynamic Spatial Parameters, added back in 2025.2, to build something a little cooler. It’s a technique that’ll come in handy for real-world work too, so have fun with it and give it a
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Last week’s bump chart reminded me of one of our early challenges from 2021, where David turned a ribbon chart into a bump chart. We’ve done other bump chart challenges over the years, so give them a try if you haven’t already. This made me curious about trends in chart selection in our challenges.
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 33 of 2026! This week, we’re going to use Sigma’s AI Assistant to build a dashboard for us! This challenge is very open ended, so we may end up with something that looks different than mine, depending on your prompt and chat with the AI. Have fun building and share your
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Sometimes you’ll have products that launch at different times, and so questions come up of how is this most recent launch comparing to other launches in the past? So this week, we’ll have a view of the past year for 5 different products, and then a view with all of those products from a
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday