Introduction This week we’re partnering with the Microsoft Fabric Community team to bring you a set of challenges that are taking place over the next month as a part of Fabric Data Days. Each week, they post a new mini-challenge, aimed at anyone looking to practice dataviz skills, explore new visuals, and engage with the […]
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Can you build an interactive forecasting app? Introduction This week, we’re turning forecasting into action. Using Sigma’s RegressionSlope() and RegressionIntercept() functions, you’ll build a live forecasting app that projects future outcomes—and adjusts in real time. No Excel exports. No FORECAST() formulas. Just your dataset, an input table, and a few calculated fields to model linear,
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Introduction I know what you’re thinking…”Kyle, we just did dynamically zooming maps a couple months ago!” And you’re right, we did. However, sometimes data is structured in a way we need to do some things differently. So we’re working on a different method for dynamically zooming this week, which doesn’t use spatial parameters. “But Kyle, why
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Introduction This week we’re partnering with the Microsoft Fabric Community team to bring you a set of challenges that are taking place over the next month as a part of Fabric Data Days. Each week, they post a new mini-challenge, aimed at anyone looking to practice dataviz skills, explore new visuals, and engage with the
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Introduction Sean here and I’m back with another challenge this week. This week we’re challenging you to create a population pyramid using HR data from RWFD. Check it out! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Size 1300×600 1 sheet Show the male and female head counts by age group Show the total headcount by
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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re creating a dynamic annotation slicer that highlights specific data points on a time series chart. Imagine you’re presenting monthly revenue trends to stakeholders who want to quickly assess performance against the typical baseline. Instead of manually pointing out values, you create an interactive chart where users
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Introduction Welcome to Week 45 of 2025! This week we have two guest authors: Nick Haylund and Thomas Larsen! A lot of data folks have heard about the Waffle House Index being used as a disaster indicator for FEMA. Linked there is one of the first, and quite comprehensive, Medium articles we could find on
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Introduction Some time ago the brilliant Sam Parsons, developed a “Satellite” or “Spiral” Chart as an alternative way to visualise a donut that exceeded 100%.https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sparsonsdataviz/viz/SpiralingSatelliteCharts/SpiralingSatelliteCharts. As with many things Sam comes up with, I always want to see if I can build it, and once again it’s a great excuse for a #WOW challenge. Back
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Introduction In this week’s challenge we are going to try to create a chart on rising sea levels where the y-scale of mm will display on screen in physical mm. You can try this with whichever custom visual you like, but the example laid out below will be for the utilisation of the HTML Content
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Introduction Welcome to Week 44 of 2025! This week, we’re going to create a custom calendar visualization using a pivot table. You can find a more detailed tutorial in the Sigma Community. In addition to this tutorial, we’re going to create a form to allow users to input new events, as well as create some
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