Workout Wednesday

2026 Week 04 | Sigma: Can you Make a Repeating Container?

Introduction This week’s challenge features the new Repeating Container element, which is a powerful new visual that can display feed-like information quickly and easily. Today, I want to show you how you can use this feature to make more detailed KPI-like cards in your workbooks. This feature is still in beta – are there any things

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2026 Week 03 | Sigma: Running Feedback Loop

Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday is about turning feedback into part of the workflow, not a side conversation. You’ll build a lightweight, in-workbook feedback loop in Sigma that lets stakeholders flag issues directly on tables and charts, with context intact. Instead of comments that disappear or Slack messages that pile up, feedback becomes structured, reviewable,

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#WOW2026 | Week 2 | Can you create a fake Viz in Tooltip?

Introduction Welcome back to #WOW2026! Thank you all for your continued support, and for bearing with us while we carried out some maintenance on the website. For the first challenge of the year, I’m asking you to recreate a technique that was originally introduced way back in 2010, and re-shared during a ‘tips and tricks’

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2025 Week 53 | Sigma : Can you build a pareto chart?

Introduction Welcome to the final week of 2025! Since it’s a holiday week, we’re keeping things simple with a classic but powerful visualization: the Pareto chart. Your challenge this week is to build a Pareto chart in Sigma that highlights which issue categories contribute the most to overall incident reports. By combining a sorted bar

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2025 Week 51 | Power BI: Holiday Traffic: Who Came, Who Left 🎄

Introduction The first snowfall in Denver was unseasonably late this year. So I got curious about the data and decided to make a visualization. While this one does communicate with data, it’s taking a bit of artistic license.  This is your challenge as well: create a first snowfall scatterplot with some wintery visual effects. You

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