Introduction A few weeks ago I saw this Twitter poll (and the ensuing discussion) about Team Tiled vs Team Floating and I noted that I am neither. Rather, I am Team Container. Using Containers in dashboards makes positioning and sizing everything in your dashboard a piece of cake, once you have mastered how they work. …
#WOW2023 | Week 12 | Can you build a dashboard using containers? Read More
Introduction Brad Werner is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Brad’s own words: I have a confession. When I first started using Tableau, I was a strict advocate for #TeamFloating. Yes, I used to float ALL objects on my Tableau dashboards. I would decide on a dashboard layout …
Ok, this week is all about working with Containers. Now that we have the ability to control inner/outer padding on Dashboard objects, as well as color, we can really make our dashboards shine without having to float everything. Note on the week, the data/charts don’t really matter, I honestly just threw some on the dashboard. …
Introduction Welcome to year 2 of Workout Wednesday, we’re here to help you keep good on your New Year’s resolutions of learning new skills and getting your teeth cleaned. The data for this week comes from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) website, which has a lot of interesting survey data to explore. They have …
2025 Week 01 | Sigma: Can you visualize NHIS data? Read More
Introduction It’s the last challenge of 2024! Whether you’ve been with us all year or are joining us for the first time, welcome! With the holiday season in full swing, we are keeping it light this week. We’re going to analyze some holiday movie data that I sourced from Kaggle. This dataset found movies on …
2024 Week 52 | Sigma: Can you analyze these Holiday Movies? Read More
Introduction We’re going to try something a little different this week. We’re going to make a viz/dashboard without a dataset. Having just come from my daughter’s Christmas show this evening, and thinking I wanted to focus on container/dashboard formatting but keep it simple, I decided to build, then decorate a Christmas tree. So, that’s what …
Introduction I felt like I was seeing more news about food recalls lately, and I did the thing any good data-minded individual would do: pulled down data from the FDA to see if what I’m feeling is backed up by data. When I pulled the data down from, I realized there was still a lot …
Introduction Welcome to Week 46! This week we pretend to be a streaming service, trying to see which of our 3 new shows are doing well with the viewer base. Funnel charts will be our main focus here, but feel free to play around with the sample data to find other key insights! The formatting …
2024 Week 46 | Sigma: Can you create a Funnel Chart? Read More
Introduction This week, I wanted to challenge myself to do something I didn’t know how to do in Sigma, I wanted to start laying the groundwork to do sensitivity analysis. I’ve often thought this would be possible in Sigma, since we can connect to Snowflake User-Defined Functions (UDFs) via Sigma’s function bar to call models …
2024 Week 39 | Sigma: Can you test out changes in cost? Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week 38! Sometimes there are events or notable data points that aren’t stored in your data, but you want to see how they effect the trends. Enter reference marks and conditional formatting! This week we practice using reference marks and conditional formatting to highlight specific dates and events. The formatting styles and …
2024 Week 38 | Sigma: Can you create reference marks? Read More
