Introduction I was recently catching up on the Flerlage Twins blog, and came across a post that I had somehow missed from the end of last year about trying to solve a highlighting problem with donut charts when filtering. I read through it, and was surprised that my favorite technique from Yuri Fal didn’t work, […]
#WOW2024 | Week 26 | Can you filter from a donut without highlighting the pie? Read More »
Introduction This week’s challenge looks to create a time brush slicer. The time brush slicer can be created with Deneb or another custom visual. Requirements Obtain the data from a previous challenge Model data Option A Import Timbrush Slicer and Small Multiple Custom Visual Create a time brush slicer Create a line chart with small
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Introduction Welcome to Week Twenty-Five! This week, you’re going to compare US Census data from 2000 and 2010. In this challenge, we’ll highlight a couple of new formatting additions to Sigma, as well as create a dynamic parameter. Good Luck!-Ashley Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to WOW Sigma Instance Youtube
2024 Week 25 | Sigma: Can you compare these populations? Read More »
Introduction What’s up everybody! Thank for checking and taking on the latest #WOW2024 challenge! I’ve got another real-life inspired challenge for you all this week. At times, it can important to show both part-to-whole relationships as well as rank or comparison to each other. We know that there are many ways to accomplish but what
#WOW2024 | 25 | Can you combine part-to-whole and comparison? Read More »
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is purely dataviz – there is no data transformation involved. You have the pleasure of either recreating or making over the stunning sample report provided by the Power BI core visuals team. This report is beautiful to look at and was built to demonstrate some of the
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Introduction For this week’s challenge I want to see if you can provide users with the flexibility to choose how they want to display a particular metric – in this case we’re looking at Headcount data, and how it is distributed across different employee attributes. Depending on the question being asked, a particular layout might
Introduction A few weeks ago, the 19th Police District of Chicago emailed me with some interesting survey data. The visualizations were useful, but they were living inside of a Google Slides presentation, and I wanted to dig deeper into the results. Thankfully, I followed my nose to their community survey website and found that they
2024 Week 24 | Sigma: Can you add custom map layers? Read More »
Introduction We are already into the mid 2024 and hope you are ready for another challenge! This is hopefully easier than some of the previous challenges we have set in CRM Analytics this year! It contains windowing function with input widgets. Yes, you read that right! Two great tools that can make your and your
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Introduction In addition to the powerful dashboard offered by CRM Analytics, the tool also offers a powerful data transformation tool, the Recipe. This week, the challenge is not the dashboard itself but preparing data based on a requirement. Requirement: retrieve all Customers without “activity” in the last 6 months. Activity here means: – Opportunity creation– Contact
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Introduction As workbook builders we need to be thoughtful when deciding which visualizations to use in all sorts of scenarios. A good rule of thumb to help decide is looking for visualizations that provide high amounts of information to a low pixel or space ratio. This week we’re choosing to fill the donut chart to
2024 Week 23 | Sigma: Can you fill the donut hole? Read More »
