Workout Wednesday

2026 Week 10 | Power BI: Dynamic visibility of visuals

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / Diana Ackermann

Introduction This challenge focuses on a powerful Power BI technique: conditional visibility using overlapping visuals and dynamic transparency. Instead of hiding visuals entirely, you’ll learn to control visibility through background color transparency – making elements appear and disappear based on user selections. Based on the selection of countries, we are looking at differences in foreign […]

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2026 Week 10 | Sigma: Scheduled Automation

Sigma, Workout Wednesday / Stanley Gai

Introduction This week, we will leverage AI functions and CallNumber warehouse functions to explore the possibility of Sigma’s scheduled action trigger. Imagine you are the branch manager of a customer support center and a ticket assignment has to be sent out every morning to all your agents, such that each agent will have a list

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#WOW2026 | Week 10 | Baseline YoY Revenue

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / Kyle Yetter

Introduction Frequent Workout Wednesday participant Jack Hineman reached out to me last week saying he had just come up with something at work he thought would make a good WOW challenge. He sent it to me and it looked really interesting, so we’ve got a guest challenge this week. Here’s Jack: I have been debating

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2026 Week 9 | Sigma: Do you ship it?

Sigma, Workout Wednesday / Ashley Bennett

Introduction Welcome to Week 9 of 2026! This week, we’re going to explore using a form to bulk update multiple rows of an input table. As a bonus, we will also play with custom sorting controls. Good luck! -Ashley Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to WOW Sigma Instance Youtube Click

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#WOW2026 | Week 9 | Can you build a parallel coordinates chart?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / Donna Coles

Introduction This week we’re going to build out a parallel coordinates chart – a type of visualisation used to display and compare multiple numerical measures. My daughter, Mia, is an academy level footballer and wears a stats vest in matches and training to capture lots of data about her performance. I’d been meaning to try

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#WOW2026 week 8: DZV and Filter Actions

community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday / Sean Miller

Introduction Welcome to week 9! I recently had a client reach out about some advanced navigation and filtering requests for their dashboard. It combined elements of Dynamic Zone Visibility and different types of filter actions. And I thought it was the perfect challenge for this week so here ya go! Click to open in Tableau

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2026 Week 08 | Sigma: Forms

Sigma, Workout Wednesday / Eric Heidbreder

Introduction I’m so excited to introduce Forms to everyone – this feature is a key part of most data apps I build. They can help speed up development and maintain apps over time. So let’s dig in and see how forms can help us simplify actions and data apps. Need access to Sigma? Click Here to

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2026 Week 07 | Sigma: Building a Custom Plugin with AI

Sigma, Workout Wednesday / Carter Voekel

Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday challenge was Numbers of Different Magnitudes, but the bigger lesson for me was this: You can build custom analytical experiences in Sigma using AI. For this submission, I used AI-assisted coding to create a custom Sigma plugin (React + D3) that goes beyond standard chart behavior. It combines a magnitude view

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#WOW2026 | Week 7 | Exploring Table Calcs vs LODs

community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday / Erica Hughes

Introduction Hello everyone, I’m very happy to be back for another year of Workout Wednesday! For my first challenge, I wanted to focus on something that every Tableau learner will encouter: Table Calculations and Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations, and what is the difference between them? Well, sometimes only one of these types of calculations

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