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2024 Week 2 | Sigma: Can you recreate this drillable bar chart?

Introduction Let’s keep the new year rolling! I’m Eric, and I’m really excited to host this week. Thanks to all the folks who have participated so far, we look forward to seeing more of your submissions this week. Today, I’m excited to give you a challenge that gets you familiar with drilling in Sigma. Let’s …

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#WOW2024 | Week 2 | Can you create a time-focused Gantt Chart?

Introduction This week’s challenge is another from recent experience. As we have spikes or drops with various metrics, we found that we often asked the same questions…What marketing campaigns were happening at that time? Did we send any big email campaigns around then? Did we launch a new product feature or experiment? With all these …

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2024 Week 1 | Sigma: Can you recreate this Area Chart?

Introduction It’s an exciting moment as we launch the first-ever Sigma Computing Workout Wednesday Challenge! WOW was a key aspect in my career, and I’m thrilled to bring these challenges to a new platform. These challenges are designed to help you explore new possibilities, practice essential concepts, and deepen your understanding of Sigma & data …

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#WOW2024 | Week 1 | Can you compare salaries to the median?

Introduction Happy New Year to you all! This is the start of #WorkoutWednesday’s 7th year – how amazing is that! Thank you to everybody for your continued support and engagement – it really helps keep this initiative going! For the first challenge of 2024, I’ve updated a visualisation I first built several years ago based …

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2024 Week 1 | Power BI: Stacked Bridge with Core Visual

Introduction This week’s challenge builds on last weeks challenge to utilise updated column fill and data labelling features from the Power BI December 2023 release. The challenge will be to create a stacked bridge chart using the core column and line combo chart. Building the bridge will require calculated tables. Intermediate users can use the …

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Introducing Sigma Computing to Workout Wednesday

The wait is over! Sigma Computing is now part of Workout Wednesday. The Sigma WOW Team is excited to help you learn a platform we love.  We’ll present you with a unique WOW challenge each week to enhance your skills and ignite your passion for data. These challenges range from beginner-friendly tasks to more advanced …

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2023 Week 52 | Power BI: Format Bar Charts with Transparency, Borders, and Detail Labels

Introduction In the December 2023 release of Power BI Desktop, some new formatting options were added for bar charts. These enhancements allow us to add borders around bars (and segments of bars for stacked bar charts), change the transparency of the fill color in a bar, and add secondary metrics to data labels.  With the …

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2023 Week 50 | Power BI: Clippy’s Random Gift Generator

Introduction Happy holidays to everyone who celebrates! Join us this week to get some help shopping for your friends and family, using a dataset you provide and a random number generator in Power Query. If Clippy can’t pick a gift, no one can! Have fun and create the random gift generator in whatever way you …

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