Introduction Community Month is back! 🎉To kick things off, Hideaki Yamamoto and Tomoki Goda from Japan Tableau User Group are bringing a challenge inspired by one of the Japan Tableau User Group’s beloved events.Here’s a message from both of them! Meet “Viz Tsukurima Show!” (VizTS), a fan-favorite speed-viz event hosted by JTUG.It kicked off in […]
#WOW2026 | Week 13 | Let’s Viz Tsukurima Show! Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are looking at some newer core visuals and formatting features: cards that in a segmented tile layout, a slicer that supports partial text matching, and a matrix where the percentage-of-total calculation changes meaning depending on whether you’re looking at a subtotal or a detail row. The bonus challenge pushes into SVG-in-DAX
2026 Week 12 | Power BI: Custom matrix subtotals and cards with categories Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction After years of being on the grid, we can finally break from it (and do some other cool stuff). Using Reports, a newly released pixel-perfect document editor for Sigma, we can add elements, layer elements, and dynamically expand tables. Combining reports with Email Bursting leads to some significant time savings, if your business has
2026 Week 12 | Got Reports? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I was recently looking into the Radial Viz Extension after Sunburst support was added in Tableau 2025.3, and realized it can also create gauge charts with ease. Turns out this has actually been possible since the Radial Extension first launched in 2024.2! Building gauge charts in Tableau used to require map layers and dedicated
#WOW2026 | Week 12 | Create a Gauge Chart with Tableau Extensions Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge: recreate a Tale visualization with a twist. The goal is to show revenue growth over time for 100 companies, grouped into: • Rocket Ships• Fast Growers• Slow Burners The catch? Sigma doesn’t separate “line identity” and “color grouping” the way most tools do. So the real challenge isn’t the chart. It’s
2026 Week 07 | Sigma: Tale No One Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Every week I’m reminded at how much people struggle with containers in Tableau. So I thought why not make another challenge to see how people get on. I’ll be giving you the solution file and it’s your job to recreate the same item hierarchy Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1200×800
#WOW2026 | Week 11 | Can you use layout containers? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This challenge focuses on a powerful Power BI technique: conditional visibility using overlapping visuals and dynamic transparency. Instead of hiding visuals entirely, you’ll learn to control visibility through background color transparency – making elements appear and disappear based on user selections. Based on the selection of countries, we are looking at differences in foreign
2026 Week 10 | Power BI: Dynamic visibility of visuals Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week, we will leverage AI functions and CallNumber warehouse functions to explore the possibility of Sigma’s scheduled action trigger. Imagine you are the branch manager of a customer support center and a ticket assignment has to be sent out every morning to all your agents, such that each agent will have a list
2026 Week 10 | Sigma: Scheduled Automation Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Frequent Workout Wednesday participant Jack Hineman reached out to me last week saying he had just come up with something at work he thought would make a good WOW challenge. He sent it to me and it looked really interesting, so we’ve got a guest challenge this week. Here’s Jack: I have been debating
#WOW2026 | Week 10 | Baseline YoY Revenue Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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
2026 Week 9 | Sigma: Do you ship it? Read More »
Sigma, Workout Wednesday