Introduction For the week’s challenge we’re looking at Gantt charts! Gantt chart don’t have to necessarily show timeline data. In Tableau, they can be used to show “floating” bar charts. Which can be very powerful in certain use cases. This challenge looks at historical American Football Super Bowl betting odds and game results. In this […]
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction With the introduction of Fabric Apps at the Build conference this week, Fabric now natively supports visualization libraries like Vega, Vega-Lite, and. D3.js. In celebration, we are doing a Vega-Lite challenge. This week we are making a wind vector map. This map shows how wind speed and direction change across a region, using colors
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 22 of 2026! Most users learned form/input table handling by clearing forms or resetting the input table upon submission or an action trigger downstream. This is viable for a low usage app. If you are building an app that might be used by hundreds of users simultaneously, and the workflow requires
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump
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Power BI, Workout WednesdayIntroduction Welcome to Week 21 of 2026! This week, we’re going to play with a newer feature in Sigma: Chat Elements. These elements can be very powerful, but we’re keeping it simple today. To complete this challenge, you must work in Sigma Public. Our Workout Wednesday instance does not have AI enabled. We are going
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This weeks challenge comes from a Data School Consultant – Jacob Aronson This week’s challenge puts the spotlight on some of America’s lesser known colleges and universities – those that compete at the D3 athletic level (including my Alma Mater, Carleton College).The 400 schools are organized into ~44 conferences so that teams that are
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This month, we’re teaming up with the Microsoft Fabric Community to bring you a series of bite-sized, hands-on challenges designed to help you build (and share!) your skills one week at a time. Whether you’re just getting started or looking for a quick midweek spark, Miniviz May is all about learning by doing. Jump
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Awhile ago, we were given the lovely fixed header option, which looks great and has helped to make more maintainable custom navigation in Sigma possible, but this week, we’re playing around with a beta feature – the fixed Sidebar. This functionality, combined with repeated containers and embedded UI elements, makes for some interesting design
2026 Week 20 | Can we have a quick sidebar? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by one of the new features announced at Devs on Stage at the recent Tableau Conference.Devs on Stage unveiled nearly 30 new features. Chart Layers stole the show for me, but I’m also genuinely excited about Data Driven Formatting—the ability to dynamically change font size, container size, color, and
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge explores something entirely new for Sigma – calling an external AI API directly from a workbook action. Using Sigma’s API Connector and Action Sequences, you’ll build a Credit Risk Intelligence app that sends live loan data to Claude’s AI and displays a real-time risk explanation – all without leaving Sigma. Need Access
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Sigma, Workout Wednesday