Introduction It’s my first challenge of 2025! This week, we’re going to learn a new Sigma feature: Modals. Modals are pop-up windows that could be used for many things, like a form for an input table or to provide more detailed information. We’re going to use them to provide a breakdown on an Executive Summary. …
Introduction This week, I’m taking a break from analysis to look at some interesting ways to create apps within Sigma. I decided to challenge myself to see how close I could get to building out the functionality for Wordle inside of Sigma, and I was really happy with the results. Let’s dig in and learn …
Introduction Welcome to Week 2 of 2025! Sometimes it’s nice to have a really quick visual of how things are going in your business. Sometimes a line or bar chart shows you what you need, but I recently found that gauges are exactly what I need! This week let’s play with using a gauge to …
2025 Week 2 | Sigma: Can you create a Gauge Vizualization? Read More
Introduction Welcome to year 2 of Workout Wednesday, we’re here to help you keep good on your New Year’s resolutions of learning new skills and getting your teeth cleaned. The data for this week comes from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) website, which has a lot of interesting survey data to explore. They have …
2025 Week 01 | Sigma: Can you visualize NHIS data? Read More
Introduction It’s the last challenge of 2024! Whether you’ve been with us all year or are joining us for the first time, welcome! With the holiday season in full swing, we are keeping it light this week. We’re going to analyze some holiday movie data that I sourced from Kaggle. This dataset found movies on …
2024 Week 52 | Sigma: Can you analyze these Holiday Movies? Read More
Introduction Surprise! I have one more challenge for the year. This challenge was inspired by a workbook I created in my early Sigma days. We wanted to track weekly progression toward a quarterly total. Sounds easy, right? I thought so, too! But then I realized that DateTrunc(“week,” [Date]) would duplicate the week label across quarters. …
2024 Week 51 | Sigma : Can you calculate weekly progress? Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week 50! This week we’re playing with a new Sigma feature – modals! Modals are pop-ups that can contain any elements that you might otherwise have in another tab. There is so much opportunity with this feature, particularily when combined with actions! The formatting styles and colors in this challenge are all …
Introduction This week, we’re diving into how to link a single color across multiple elements, giving users the power to choose which item gets the color splash. Plus, we’re checking out the latest tweaks to the Trellis options to make your visualizations even cooler. Have fun!-Katrina Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up …
2024 Week 49 | Sigma: Can you create a highlight action? Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week Forty-Eight! This week, I am heavily focused on my Thanksgiving preparations, so naturally, we will be taking our Workout Wednesday to the kitchen. I asked Chat GPT to generate us a dataset involving popular Thanksgiving dishes by state. We’re going to use that to utilize some newer features, like a conditional …
2024 Week 48 | Sigma: Can you map these Thanksgiving Dishes? Read More
Introduction I felt like I was seeing more news about food recalls lately, and I did the thing any good data-minded individual would do: pulled down data from the FDA to see if what I’m feeling is backed up by data. When I pulled the data down from, I realized there was still a lot …
