Introduction Welcome to Week 42 of 2025! Tired of dashboards firing off queries with every filter change? This week’s challenge is all about control. You’ll learn how to use controls, actions, and modals to pause live queries, open a filter popup for selections, and resume queries only after users make their final choices. It’s a …
Introduction I recently received a business request with the following requirements: The user wants to easily change the dimension that colors the charts on a dashboard. The list of dimensions might be added or removed in the future, so the solution needs to be simple and easy to maintain. This week’s challenge is inspired by …
Can you create an if-else action workflow? Introduction This week, we’re exploring how Sigma’s new if-else Action transforms dashboards into decision apps. Instead of static filters and views, you’ll build a responsive experience that changes based on what users select. The goal isn’t just to add logic – it’s to streamline ad-hoc work. With a …
Introduction In this challenge, you’ll recreate a Tableau Pulse–inspired dashboard from scratch. One of the key features of Tableau Pulse is to automatically detect trends and changes in your data, displaying an “Expected Range” for each metric to help users instantly grasp performance at a glance. Your task is to reproduce this concept using Tableau’s …
#WOW2025 | Week 41 | Let’s Make a Tableau Pulse-inspired Dashboard! Read More
Introduction I’ve been reading the new book Dashboards That Deliver by Andy Coatgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler. Chapter 14 contains an eCommerce dashboard by Dorian Banutoiu that shows how many people viewed a product, added it to their cart, and then actually purchased it. I appreciated the compact nature of what the book …
2025 Week 41 | Power BI: eCommerce metrics bar-in-bar visualizations Read More
Introduction Workout Wednesday crew! Did you know that Microsoft is now hosting a Dataviz World Championships every year, twice a year? The premise is that you create a report for a preliminary round (or rounds), and 4 finalists are then selected to compete live on-stage at the Fabric Community Conference (FabCon). I just returned from …
2025 Week 40 | Power BI: Announcing the DataViz World Champion Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week 40 of 2025! This week, we’re going to dive deeper into the world of Data Apps. We’re going to create an approval workflow where users can submit requested changes and then someone can go into the same workbook to approve or reject these changes. Good luck! -Ashley Need access to Sigma? …
Introduction I had a thought last week about using the parameter driven axis ranges and whether they could be reset to the minimum and maximum. Turns out they can be, and hence this challenge. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements 1 sheet You’ll need: 4 parameters 4 LODs 1 colour calc (reference lines are …
#WOW2025 | Week 40 | Can you create this Zoom and Reset Scatter Plot? Read More
Introduction Sigma’s new features keep coming and they don’t stop coming and this past week was no different. We got two powerhouse features that eliminate SO MUCH EFFORT from maintaining beautiful workbooks: Navigation Elements and Custom headers. Today, I wanted to focus on those, since I have a feeling we’re all going to be adding …
Introduction Today at work I started to create a two-level hierarchy bar chart, but then I realized one of the measures I was using was a MAX() value for the 2nd tier, but I wanted to sum those for the top tier. So I needed to create a drill down instead of a hierarchy. In …
