Introduction Welcome to Week Forty-Four! This week, I wanted to have a little fun because not only is Thursday Halloween, but it’s also my birthday. As someone who loves data and shares her birthday with a holiday, I am interested to see just how common holiday birthdays are. In this challenge, you will use a couple …
2024 Week 44 | Sigma: How likely is a holiday birthday? Read More
Introduction This week we’re working with some spatial data. I have a project at work where we’re finding the number of records (points) that are within a geospatial area (polygon), so we’ll try that this week. We’ll use public school district boundaries (polygons) and school locations (points) to find the number of schools in each …
#WOW2024 Week 44 | Can you join two spatial files to find intersection? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is to test your data storytelling skills and enhance a line chart of service desk survey responses to focus attention on important aspects. No solution file provided this week. Requirements Obtain the data Model Data Create a chart showing survey response trends Dataset This week’s dataset is downloadable from Github https://github.com/kolky001/Workout-Wednesday-2023/blob/main/Help%20Desk.xlsx …
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 Hello #WOW enthusiasts, I’m Hannah, a data analyst consultant at The Information Lab. This week’s challenge is inspired by a client project I did recently, where I was trying to recreate a specific visual from a different software. I thought I could save you the headache if this kind of problem ever crossed your …
#WOW2024 W43: Can you show total sales and filtered sales in the same view? Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week 42! This week we’ll look at an easy way to compare data year over year, whether we are using a line chart visualization or a pivot table to view our data. There are many ways to acheive similar results, this is just one! Feel free to play around with other ways …
2024 Week 42 | Sigma: Can you compare Year over Year Data? Read More
Introduction Scatterplots are one of the most useful visual chart types for data exploration. You can use them to identify relationships among two or more variables, find clusters of data, encode data in several ways for communicating insights etc. This is especially useful when working with large datasets. In this WoW challenge, our goal is to use marker …
2024 Week 42 | Power BI: Scatter Plot Dynamic Colour Density Read More
Introduction Hot out of the oven Tableau 2024.3 is here! And with it comes SO MANY amazing new features including the topic for this challenge. Table Extensions! That’s correct, you read that right. Tables are now “native” to Tableau. I used air quotes because it does require viz extensions to be enabled on your cloud/server …
#WOW2024 | 42 | Let’s play with Table(au) Extensions! Read More
Introduction There are a few ways to visualize movement in Power BI. This week, we are visualizing race cars moving on a track. The example report below uses Deneb, but you could also complete this challenge by combining a custom visual and the Play Axis visual. In the report below, once you click the Go …
2024 Week 41 | Power BI: Visualize a Drag Race with Animation Read More
Introduction For this week’s challenge, we’re creating a dynamic column bar chart. The end user can select the number of columns to split the data into. Note that there are only 37 States in the Plugs data, so do your best not to hard code anything for a more realistic use case! Have fun!-Katrina Need …
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