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2026 Week 42 | Sigma Query Performance Optimizer – Deterministic Approach

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Introduction Welcome to Week 42 of 2026! You built a Sigma App that addressed a critical business process and could possibly replace a legacy SaaS solution, but the workbook takes forever to load due to complex transformations and workarounds in Sigma. This Sigma Workbook Query Performance Optimizer combines Sigma workbook metadata from API endpoints and […]

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2026 Week 42 | Power BI: Overlay Information With Bookmarks

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Introduction Bookmarks in Power BI can be so tricky sometimes but they’re so satisfying when everything lines up the way you want it to. This weeks challenge by Vivien Lee looks simple at first, it’s only one chart, one table, and a few buttons. But click on the info button in the corner and the

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#WOW2026 Week 42: Can you create a small multiple pie chart?

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Introduction This week we have a challenge set by a fellow Data School Consultant, Oscar Kriebel. Yes you read that correctly another Kriebel in the Tableau World.  Oscar kindly volunteered to submit a challenge for this week. Whilst I don’t agree with seeing so many Pie Charts, the techniques are interesting! Have fun! Click to

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2026 Week 41 | Power BI: Stripe Chart using Native Column Chart

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Introduction What if a column chart could tell a story through color? A stripe chart uses colored stripes to reveal patterns and changes in data at a glance. In this exercise, we’ll transform Power BI’s native column chart into a stripe chart where each stripe represents a data point, and its color helps us spot

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2026 Week 41 | Sigma: Can you waterfall smarter?

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Introduction Welcome to Week 41 of 2026! This week, we’re going to use Sigma’s AI Assistant to build a dashboard for us… again!  Sigma released new functionality to its AI builder assistant, so let’s test it out!  This challenge is very open ended, so we may end up with something that looks different than mine,

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#WOW2026 | Week 41 | Can you unstack a stacked bar chart?

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Introduction This challenge comes straight from real-world work once again. The ask was simple: make both the count and its share easy to read, even if it requires scrolling.This design didn’t make the final cut, but it’s one of my personal favorites.Use this as a chance to deepen your understanding of what bar charts can

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#WOW2026 | Week 40 | Can You Build a Weekly Check-In Dashboard?

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Introduction Did you watch the Tableau keynote at Dreamforce 2026? I enjoyed it, and there were a lot of big announcements. It also left me thinking about where dashboards fit now. Ad hoc analysis seems to be moving to AI, and we’re somewhere in the middle of that shift. My current view is that dashboards are

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