Introduction It’s cold and snowy in many places in the United States this week. So we are making an infographic to remind people about ice safety. It’s important to check that ice can support the weight of your desired outdoor activity, so you won’t fall through or harm the area. Let’s use Power BI to …
2025 Week 2 | Power BI: Ice Thickness Infographic with Core Visuals Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday and welcome to 2025! This year marks Workout Wednesday‘s 9th year as a community initiative, and the Power BI team is entering our 5th year! In 2025, we plan to both continue and expand our efforts, which we can’t do without you, dear reader! How to get involved Volunteer as a …
2025 Week 1 | Power BI: Happy New Year! Looking for contributors! Read More
Introduction Happy New Year! For those of you who like to set goals, I hope we can help you level up your skills in Tableau this year. This first month, our aim is to bring you challenges that are accessible to everyone who feels they are at a Beginner to Intermediate level. We hope you …
#WOW2025 | Week 1 | Can you replicate Quick Table Calcs? Read More
Introduction Welcome to year 2 of Workout Wednesday, we’re here to help you keep good on your New Year’s resolutions of learning new skills and getting your teeth cleaned. The data for this week comes from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) website, which has a lot of interesting survey data to explore. They have …
2025 Week 01 | Sigma: Can you visualize NHIS data? Read More
Introduction Happy Holidays and Happy New Year folks! The last dataviz challenge for 2024 and we will be creating a Christmas Family Feud game with the new Text Filters in preview – don’t forget to ensure these are enabled before participating in the challenge. Utilize as many filters as you like and prepare some conditional …
Introduction It’s the last challenge of 2024! Whether you’ve been with us all year or are joining us for the first time, welcome! With the holiday season in full swing, we are keeping it light this week. We’re going to analyze some holiday movie data that I sourced from Kaggle. This dataset found movies on …
2024 Week 52 | Sigma: Can you analyze these Holiday Movies? Read More
Introduction Ever since I found out that Week 52’s challenge would be posted on December 25, I’ve been brainstorming ideas related to Christmas.While tackling Week 50’s Christmas tree challenge (as a personal challenge) and trying to solve it on a single sheet, I found myself wrestling with the concepts of “stems” and “leaves,” which reminded …
#WOW2024 | Week 52 | Can you create a Stem and Leaf Plots? Read More
Introduction Surprise! I have one more challenge for the year. This challenge was inspired by a workbook I created in my early Sigma days. We wanted to track weekly progression toward a quarterly total. Sounds easy, right? I thought so, too! But then I realized that DateTrunc(“week,” [Date]) would duplicate the week label across quarters. …
2024 Week 51 | Sigma : Can you calculate weekly progress? Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week 50! This week we’re playing with a new Sigma feature – modals! Modals are pop-ups that can contain any elements that you might otherwise have in another tab. There is so much opportunity with this feature, particularily when combined with actions! The formatting styles and colors in this challenge are all …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week, we’re shining a spotlight on an incredible solution shared by community member Valerie Junk. It’s always inspiring to see how ideas ripple through the community—Valerie’s post was sparked by none other than Nikola Ilic, a powerhouse of creativity and insight in our space. I’m continuing my theme of community gratitude, …
2024 Week 51 | Power BI: Highlight Data with a Slicer by Valerie Junk Read More
