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2025 Week 24 | Sigma: Do you see the difference?

Introduction Welcome to Week 24 of 2025! This week, we’re going to illustrate the difference between two of Sigma’s newer features:  Modals and Popovers.  These layout elements are very similar, but have slightly different functionality and visual differences.   Good luck! -Ashley Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to WOW Sigma Instance …

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2025 Week 24 | Power BI: Core Visuals Box Plot

Introduction It’s nice to be invited back by the team, and thanks for having me! While it’s tempting for me to think of something for you explore with the Deneb or HTML Content custom visuals (and I’d still encourage that!), I’d like to continue some of the other threads we’ve recently seen around what we …

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#WOW2025 | 23 | Can you build a control chart

Introduction Have I ever talked about how much I love table calcs? They are super powerful and often more performant than the often overused LOD expression. So that’s what we’re going to practice this week. Can you create a control chart only using table calcs? Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements 1 sheet create …

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2025 Week 23 | Sigma: Can You Compare Two NHL Teams?

Introduction It’s Stanley Cup Playoff day, and I must EDMit I have a preference for who I’d like to win. This week, I’m revisiting an old challenge I made and improving it by using Sigma’s new “Transpose” functionality. This little gem slipped in without me noticing and has been a beautiful addition to my Sigma …

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2025 Week 23 | Power BI: Highlight on Hover with Deneb

Introduction What do you want to highlight on hover? Practice with the Deneb Custom Visual. This week’s challenge was created using the Deneb custom visual in Power BI. I was inspired by the many examples on the Vega-Lite website. The chart displays Sales and Profit grouped by country and segment, based on a sample Power …

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2025 Week 22 | Power BI: Create a lollipop chart

Introduction Happy Wednesday Power BI Folks! This is my first time creating a Power BI Workout Wednesday exercise, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share it with you all! Thank you for being part of my learning and teaching journey. Let’s grow together! Have you ever wanted to create a Lollipop Chart in Power BI …

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#WOW2025 | Week 22 | Data Normalization Methods

Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by Robbin Vernooij & Lorna Brown’s talk from Tableau Conference this year (TC25) titled ‘Taming the Beast: Normalization Strategies in Tableau’ Normalization allows us to examine the relative importance of values that may be on completely different scales. A common example of where we use normalization is when we …

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2025 Week 21 | Power BI: Scatterplot / Timeseries Smoothing

Introduction When looking at timeseries data, we may encounter high variability from one week to the next, creating highly jagged and difficult to read charts. There are a number of techniques to smooth the lines to better depict trend. Some may use rolling averages, others, like YouGov, use LOESS regression. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/how-often-brits-exercise In this weeks challenge …

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