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 What do you want to highlight on hover? Practice with the Deneb Custom Visual. This week’s challenge was created using the Deneb custom visual in Power BI. I was inspired by the many examples on the Vega-Lite website. The chart displays Sales and Profit grouped by country and segment, based on a sample Power …
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Can you create a modal? Introduction Think a bran muffin is a healthier choice than a breakfast sandwich? Think again. This week’s challenge throws Starbucks and McDonald’s into the ring — matching menu items with the same calorie count but wildly different nutritional makeups. Spoiler: one of them is a lentil bowl, the other is …
Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This is my first time creating a Power BI Workout Wednesday exercise, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share it with you all! Thank you for being part of my learning and teaching journey. Let’s grow together! Have you ever wanted to create a Lollipop Chart in Power BI …
Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by Robbin Vernooij & Lorna Brown’s talk from Tableau Conference this year (TC25) titled ‘Taming the Beast: Normalization Strategies in Tableau’ Normalization allows us to examine the relative importance of values that may be on completely different scales. A common example of where we use normalization is when we …
Introduction When looking at timeseries data, we may encounter high variability from one week to the next, creating highly jagged and difficult to read charts. There are a number of techniques to smooth the lines to better depict trend. Some may use rolling averages, others, like YouGov, use LOESS regression. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/how-often-brits-exercise In this weeks challenge …
2025 Week 21 | Power BI: Scatterplot / Timeseries Smoothing Read More
Introduction This week, we’re building a market basket or matrix analysis to help us understand the frequency of combinations. For this week’s challenge, we’re looking at which Food Trucks have the most customers in common. Have Fun! Katrina Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to WOW Sigma Instance Youtube Click here …
Introduction This challenge centers on the Drill Down Tree.It was inspired by a real-world request: “Is there an easy way to build one in Tableau?” In the end, the challenge I devised may not be straightforward—but I encourage you to give it a try! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard size: 1000 × …
WOW2025 | Week 21 | Can you make a drill down chart? Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week 20 of 2025! This week, I’m going to be a little less prescriptive than I have been in the past. This week isn’t too difficult if you’re familiar with some of Sigma’s long-standing features, like table groupings and lineage. I believe in you! You are going to learn to use a …
2025 Week 20 | Sigma: Can you find the most popular? Read More
Introduction In this challenge, we will explore the Multi-Fact Relationship Data Model feature introduced in the 2024.2 version. This feature enables us to seamlessly connect and analyze multiple fact tables within a single data source. It’s exciting as a Tableau datasource can behave like a small database! Here are some materials for those who are …
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