Introduction Welcome to Week 9 of 2026! This week, we’re going to explore using a form to bulk update multiple rows of an input table. As a bonus, we will also play with custom sorting controls. Good luck! -Ashley Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to WOW Sigma Instance Youtube Click […]
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Introduction This week we’re going to build out a parallel coordinates chart – a type of visualisation used to display and compare multiple numerical measures. My daughter, Mia, is an academy level footballer and wears a stats vest in matches and training to capture lots of data about her performance. I’d been meaning to try
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Introduction Welcome to week 9! I recently had a client reach out about some advanced navigation and filtering requests for their dashboard. It combined elements of Dynamic Zone Visibility and different types of filter actions. And I thought it was the perfect challenge for this week so here ya go! Click to open in Tableau
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Introduction I’m so excited to introduce Forms to everyone – this feature is a key part of most data apps I build. They can help speed up development and maintain apps over time. So let’s dig in and see how forms can help us simplify actions and data apps. Need access to Sigma? Click Here to
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Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday challenge was Numbers of Different Magnitudes, but the bigger lesson for me was this: You can build custom analytical experiences in Sigma using AI. For this submission, I used AI-assisted coding to create a custom Sigma plugin (React + D3) that goes beyond standard chart behavior. It combines a magnitude view
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Introduction Hello everyone, I’m very happy to be back for another year of Workout Wednesday! For my first challenge, I wanted to focus on something that every Tableau learner will encouter: Table Calculations and Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations, and what is the difference between them? Well, sometimes only one of these types of calculations
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Introduction Did you know you can call Snowflake Cortex AI functions directly within Sigma? Sigma Workflow Conference in San Francisco is right around the corner, and we will build an AI Chatbot in a Sigma workbook to help users find answers to conference related questions. This AI App focused challenge will walk you through the
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Introduction I am excited to begin my third year as a Workout Wednesday coach! This year, I remain committed to providing challenges that help you flex your Tableau muscles and maintain your analytical strength. This week’s challenge is inspired by a real-world scenario I encountered recently. While building a dashboard to track service usage, I
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Introduction Welcome to Week 5 of 2026! This week, we’re going to explore some new features in Sigma: Single Row Containers and Value Lists. When combined, these elements can easily show a lot of detail with a better end user experience. Good luck! -Ashley Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up Link to
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Introduction Thanks to tools like Tableau MCP, AI can now handle deep-dive data analysis for us. Ask it “why is this metric dropping?” and you’ll get a pretty solid answer. But before that step — noticing that something looks off in the first place — that’s still on us, looking at a dashboard. This week,
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