Workout Wednesday

#WOW2026 | Week 27 | Can you build a trellis chart with segment pies?

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Introduction The other day, at the Hokuriku Tableau User Group, I had the opportunity to talk all about trellis charts with a room full of practitioners—covering everything from the basics and handling missing values to the aspect ratio of individual line chart panels, and more.This week’s challenge features trellis charts as its theme once again, […]

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2026 Week 26 | Sigma: Level of Detail Calculations

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Introduction Welcome to Week 26 of 2026! We are bringing “Level of Detail” expressions that you might be famililar from other BI tools into Sigma this week! In short, Level of Detail expressions allow you to perform aggregation by specifically defined dimensions that is less granular than the row level, while preserving the overall table

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2026 Week 26 | Power BI: Visualizing Affordability Using a Dumbbell Chart

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Introduction This week, we have another new contributor to Workout Wednesday for Power BI: Nabha Ahmed. Give Nabha’s challenge a try! In this challenge, we explore a data visualization technique called a dumbbell chart. A dumbbell chart is used to compare two related values within the same category. It displays both values as points connected

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#WOW2026 | Week 26 | Let’s Try the Drive Time Area

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Introduction Tableau 2026.2 added a new Drive Time Area tool to maps, and I couldn’t resist building a challenge around it. You click a spot, drag outward, and Tableau shows how far you can really drive based on actual roads, not a straight line circle. This week, start from Union Station in Washington D.C. and

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2026 Week 25 | Power BI: Find the difference from a selected value

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Introduction We have a new contributor to WoW for Power BI, Robbin Vernooij.  Please check out Robbin’s challenge below, including the solution video! ⬇️ This week we’re looking to give our users the capability to select which sub-category they want to use as a comparison value for all others! This technique has many different use

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2026 Week 25: Can you show difference from selected Sales?

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Introduction This challenge is similar to other challenges, except you’re trying to think differently. Previously this challenge would have been done with LODs or Table Calcs, whilst using Parameter Actions. But you don’t need those fancy Table Calcs or LODs to make the basis of this to work.Yes this does contain some hacky elements, mainly

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2026 Week 24 | Power BI : Infographic Makeover

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Introduction In this week’s challenge we are replicating or doing a makeover on a bodily injuries Infographic, with your choice of two datasets. The design inspiration comes from Safe Work Australia’s Key Statistics   Use your imagination and think about ways you can improve the visual presentation of your dataset of choice. Extra points for

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#WOW2026 | Week 24 | Can you measure and visualize travel distance?

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Introduction The World Cup is in North America this month, and I saw a post showing the locations of national team training sites along with venues where games are being held, and the distance they were each travelling. I was curious if I could build something similar, and I was similarly curious how much each

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