Introduction This challenge comes straight from real-world work once again. The ask was simple: make both the count and its share easy to read, even if it requires scrolling.This design didn’t make the final cut, but it’s one of my personal favorites.Use this as a chance to deepen your understanding of what bar charts can […]
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction A profit card tells you the result. It does not show how that result is built, which components changed, or where to investigate next. This week, build an interactive Financial Metric Map in Power BI. Start with Net profit and reveal its components one branch at a time: revenue, cost of goods sold, operating
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I’ll admit that I’ve been hesitant to leverage AI inside of Sigma for certain projects, especially when it came to some of the more advanced builds involving actions, controls, and conditional formatting, but I always throw a complex build at it when new updates come out. And with the Sigma Assistant becoming GA and
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Did you watch the Tableau keynote at Dreamforce 2026? I enjoyed it, and there were a lot of big announcements. It also left me thinking about where dashboards fit now. Ad hoc analysis seems to be moving to AI, and we’re somewhere in the middle of that shift. My current view is that dashboards are
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Two sites of the same walk-in clinic report the same average wait: 14.8 minutes at Site A, 14.8 minutes at Site B. On a KPI card they are twins, and there is nothing to discuss. Then you look at the 2,400 individual waits. Site A runs mostly quick, with a tail that drags out
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenges comes from another Data School consultant – Elda Ketena Elda has created this challenge for a football team to enable comparisons against the top performing team. Enjoy! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements A user selects the position in the top right of dashboard Colour of bars (apart from the
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Sometimes stakeholders just want one place to go to find all the dashboards you’ve developed for them. There are ways to do this via organization or Collections in Tableau Server/Cloud, but you can also use tags and the Admin Insights data source (or Server Postgres data) to build a portal of sorts for your
#WOW2026 Week 38 | Can you create an embedded/categorized dashboard portal? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 38 of 2026! Have you: Share a workbook with a user but some workbook elements pop permission errors? Are about to sunset a table but not sure which Sigma object it references? Taking over someone’s dev work but not sure what data objects it references? This Sigma <> Snowflake Object Level
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this week’s Workout Wednesday challenge, we’re diving into a creative visual design trick that Fotiana Yan thinks you’re going to love trying out! (and I agree!) Picture this: you have a stakeholder who wants sleek, colour-shifting progress rings for every country where they sell products to track progress toward a target, complete with
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction My partner has a food allergy, which makes me very aware of food labels and products, but what happens when a factory has cross contamination or undisclosed allergens? I turned to the FDA website to see if I could glean some helpful information, and after some cleaning and Unnesting, we found our way to
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday