Introduction We’ve had a few weeks of beautiful data apps on Workout Wednesday, but today I want to focus on something that will make your data apps even cleaner, and that’s the quality of your data! I love the ‘Transpose’ feature that Sigma added a few releases ago, and it enables quality control (QC) checks, alerting, …
2025 Week 35 | Sigma: Can You Improve Your Data Quality? Read More
Introduction Living in Chicago, one of my favorite things to do is visit parks. Some are small, some are gigantic, and it’s often that I don’t really know all the options my local parks have to offer. I wanted to build this quick app off of Chicago Parks District data to help find parks near …
Introduction As we all prepare ourselves (and our dogs) for this weekend in the US, let’s be careful out there. I’ve been on a bit of a kick of perusing government websites for data lately, and I’ve been surprised at how easy it is to pull data on a number of topics. This week, I’m …
2025 Week 27 | Sigma: Can You Stay Safe This 4th of July? Read More
Introduction It’s Stanley Cup Playoff day, and I must EDMit I have a preference for who I’d like to win. This week, I’m revisiting an old challenge I made and improving it by using Sigma’s new “Transpose” functionality. This little gem slipped in without me noticing and has been a beautiful addition to my Sigma …
2025 Week 23 | Sigma: Can You Compare Two NHL Teams? Read More
Introduction Aside from Battlebots Championships, NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are my favorite sporting event of the year. And I think the logos are all so beautiful that they should be front and center when building out interactive data applications in Sigma. I always take opportunities like this to show off the ability of Sigma to …
2025 Week 19 | Sigma: Can You Get Your Stat Sheet? Read More
Introduction Welcome to week 11! This week, Sigma’s hosting it’s Data Apps Conference which will feature a ton of valuable information coming straight from Sigma’s team and community experts. The conference is Thursday, March 13, 2025 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET Even on conference week, Sigma is still pushing out excellent new features. Our challenge …
Introduction Welcome to week 11! This week, Sigma’s hosting it’s Data Apps Conference which will feature a ton of valuable information coming straight from Sigma’s team and community experts. The conference is Thursday, March 13, 2025 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET Even on conference week, Sigma is still pushing out excellent new features. Our challenge …
Introduction Welcome to week 6! This week, we’re looking deeper into dynamic switching. I’ve liked creating elements that dynamically change the metric or the dimension, but I ran into an issue when I also needed to have a custom sort order for one of the dynamic dimensions. I hope this helps you solve some edge …
2025 Week 07 | Sigma: Dynamic Switching and Custom Sorting Read More
Introduction This week, I’m taking a break from analysis to look at some interesting ways to create apps within Sigma. I decided to challenge myself to see how close I could get to building out the functionality for Wordle inside of Sigma, and I was really happy with the results. Let’s dig in and learn …
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
