Introduction Happy New Year to you all! This is the start of #WorkoutWednesday’s 7th year – how amazing is that! Thank you to everybody for your continued support and engagement – it really helps keep this initiative going! For the first challenge of 2024, I’ve updated a visualisation I first built several years ago based […]
#WOW2024 | Week 1 | Can you compare salaries to the median? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge builds on last weeks challenge to utilise updated column fill and data labelling features from the Power BI December 2023 release. The challenge will be to create a stacked bridge chart using the core column and line combo chart. Building the bridge will require calculated tables. Intermediate users can use the
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
The wait is over! Sigma Computing is now part of Workout Wednesday. The Sigma WOW Team is excited to help you learn a platform we love. We’ll present you with a unique WOW challenge each week to enhance your skills and ignite your passion for data. These challenges range from beginner-friendly tasks to more advanced
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction In the December 2023 release of Power BI Desktop, some new formatting options were added for bar charts. These enhancements allow us to add borders around bars (and segments of bars for stacked bar charts), change the transparency of the fill color in a bar, and add secondary metrics to data labels. With the
2023 Week 52 | Power BI: Format Bar Charts with Transparency, Borders, and Detail Labels Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction The Christmas Season is upon us and with that we bring you one last collab for the year – the Preppin’ Data team is back with a festive challenge for you all. The goal of that challenge is to get the data Tableau-ready. You will produce two outputs which are both used in this
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community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Happy holidays to everyone who celebrates! Join us this week to get some help shopping for your friends and family, using a dataset you provide and a random number generator in Power Query. If Clippy can’t pick a gift, no one can! Have fun and create the random gift generator in whatever way you
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This is the most common chart I made in Tableau so I thought it would be fitting to share with all of you. Enjoy! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard size: 400 x 200 1 worksheet Show the sales from the most recent full month. Show the percent change from the same month
2023 Week 50: Can you build this simple KPI? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Radar charts have their pros and cons, but they are a great way to learn how to make a chart with an SVG image. Another reason to do this in SVG rather than with a custom visual is that it allows us to simulate small multiples by putting the measure in a table or
2023 Week 49 | Power BI: SVG Radar Chart Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week I wanted an easier challenge in the lead up to the Christmas Holidays. So what better way than doing some Level of Detail calculations. I want you to be able to find out how many quarters it took for a customer to make their second purchase Click to open in Tableau Public
2023 W49: Can you find how many quarters it took for a customer to order again? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge uses a few layering techniques in the Deneb custom visual. Here you will be challenged to use multiple independent scales on a layered plot. Advanced users can concatenate total bars for extra credit! Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from Github Model and load data Power BI Desktop Obtain Deneb from
2023 Week 48 | Power BI: Ring Chart Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday