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2025 Week 18 | Sigma: Can You Re-imagine This Map?

Can you re-imagine this influential map? Introduction In 1854, Dr. John Snow mapped cholera deaths in London to investigate how the disease was spreading. At the time, most believed cholera came from “bad air.” Snow used mapping to reveal a strong cluster of deaths around a single water pump on Broad Street, proving that contaminated …

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#WOW2025 | Week 18 | Can you Filter or Drill to Details?

Introduction I’m so excited to be back for another WOW challenge! Fresh off the heels of Tableau Conference, I’m back in dashboard mode. This week I was faced with an interesting use case that I needed to accomplished and after I did, I knew it would make a great challenge. So here we go! So …

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2025 Week 18 | Power BI: Create a skyline chart

Introduction Hello everyone! This week we are looking at developing a ‘Skyline’ visual.   Anyone outside of the construction industry may not have heard this term before, but it is kind of a combination of a stacked column visual and a kanban board.   It is used in construction to show construction activities (workpacks) that …

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2025 Week 17 | Sigma : Can you create these bars?

Introduction In case you missed it, some of the Workout Wednesday authors competed for the first ever Golden Goat award as part of Sigma’s Data App Conference.  Which was super fun! You can check out the recording here: Appathon 2025 And you can check out my build demo here So, for this week’s challenge, let’s …

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2025 Week 17 | Power BI: Create a control chart

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday!  This week we’re building a Control Chart. Control charts can be used to track a specific process measure – such as sales, defects, or processing time – over a period of time. A few common uses are: Manufacturing: Monitoring defect rates and equipment performance  Healthcare: Tracking infection rates, patient …

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#WOW2025 | WEEK 17 | Can you switch measures?

Introduction For this week’s challenge, I’m showcasing a variety of features using data based on the English Premier League once again. Measure switching is the primary focus for this challenge, which is something many #WOW challenges have used in the past. But you may be new to the #WOW project this year, so it’s always …

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#WOW2025 Week 16 | Can you use Containers and Dynamic Zone Visibility?

Introduction This week we’re live at Tableau Conference! Our focus is going to be on a dashboard layout using containers and actions. I’ve built a starter workbook with most of the charts you’ll need, so you’ll just be building one chart and putting them all together on the dashboard with the actions needed.  Click to …

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2025 Week 16 | Power BI: Cards – NEXT Level | with emojis and variances label

Introduction 🎉 Happy Workout Wednesday, data fam! 🎉 I’m thrilled to be back with another Power BI challenge—and this one is all about taking something simple and pushing it to the NEXT level! 💪 Cards are often the go-to for showing big, bold numbers. But what if we could make them smarter? More informative, expressive, …

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2025 Week 15 | Power BI: The 2025 DataViz World Champion has been crowned!

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday!  Last week, 6,000 of our closest friends met up in Las Vegas for the 2nd annual Fabric Community Conference. The Workout Wednesday team had a strong showing!   We hosted a pre-conference meetup with a hundred of our friends, where we completed a Workout Wednesday exercise live! Thanks to everyone who …

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