#WOW2026 W21: Can you map out the D3 athletic conferences?

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Introduction This weeks challenge comes from a Data School Consultant  – Jacob Aronson This week’s challenge puts the spotlight on some of America’s lesser known colleges and universities – those that compete at the D3 athletic level (including my Alma Mater, Carleton College).The 400 schools are organized into ~44 conferences so that teams that are […]

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2026 Week 20 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 3

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Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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2026 Week 20 | Can we have a quick sidebar?

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Introduction Awhile ago, we were given the lovely fixed header option, which looks great and has helped to make more maintainable custom navigation in Sigma possible, but this week, we’re playing around with a beta feature – the fixed Sidebar. This functionality, combined with repeated containers and embedded UI elements, makes for some interesting design

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#WOW2026 | Week 20 | Expanding Rows

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Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by one of the new features announced at Devs on Stage at the recent Tableau Conference.Devs on Stage unveiled nearly 30 new features. Chart Layers stole the show for me, but I’m also genuinely excited about Data Driven Formatting—the ability to dynamically change font size, container size, color, and

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2026 Week 19 | Sigma: AI Credit Risk Analysis

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Introduction This week’s challenge explores something entirely new for Sigma – calling an external AI API directly from a workbook action. Using Sigma’s API Connector and Action Sequences, you’ll build a Credit Risk Intelligence app that sends live loan data to Claude’s AI and displays a real-time risk explanation – all without leaving Sigma. Need Access

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#WOW2026 | Week 19 | Can you visualise Customer Spend Insights?

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Introduction I was struggling to think of a challenge for this week, so I went back to the archives and found this one. This is looking at Customer Spend Insights, which is looking at their first & second purchase, and whether they are deemed as Outliers or not You have the option to choose between

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2026 Week 19 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 2

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Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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2026 Week 18 | Sigma: AI Sentiment Analysis with Snowflake Cortex

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Introduction Imagine you are the Senior Customer Success Manager at a SaaS company that runs on a subscription model, and you are responsible for reviewing complaint resolutions proposed by junior-level agents.  This week, we are bringing Snowflake AI_Sentiment(), AI_Classify(), and AI_Complete() functions into Sigma AI App. Snowflake Cortex AI will help you identify the customer’s

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#WOW2026 | Week 18 | Let’s Visualize TC25! (#TC26 Live Edition)

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Introduction This challenge was released at the TC26 Workout Wednesday session. Whether you’re here in the room or finding it later, I hope you’ll have fun! In this challenge, we’ll visualize the sessions of Tableau Conference itself. Three difficulty tiers are available, so pick the one that matches your confidence and give it a try.

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2026 Week 18 | Power BI: Miniviz May Week 1

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Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump

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