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
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 This week, I wanted to highlight Sigma’s actions once again, as we got a new update a last week: The ability to change date controls via actions! Pairing this new feature with the ‘Conditions’ beta feature in actions, we can create more user-friendly date filtering with much less hassle. Stay up to date on changes to …
2024 Week 43 | Sigma: Can you create a segmented date control? 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
