Introduction Aside from Battlebots Championships, NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are my favorite sporting event of the year. And I think the logos are all so beautiful that they should be front and center when building out interactive data applications in Sigma. I always take opportunities like this to show off the ability of Sigma to …
2025 Week 19 | Sigma: Can You Get Your Stat Sheet? Read More
Introduction This week, we’re diving into how to link a single color across multiple elements, giving users the power to choose which item gets the color splash. Plus, we’re checking out the latest tweaks to the Trellis options to make your visualizations even cooler. Have fun!-Katrina Need access to Sigma? Click Here to Sign Up …
2024 Week 49 | Sigma: Can you create a highlight action? Read More
Introduction I felt like I was seeing more news about food recalls lately, and I did the thing any good data-minded individual would do: pulled down data from the FDA to see if what I’m feeling is backed up by data. When I pulled the data down from, I realized there was still a lot …
Introduction This week, I wanted to highlight Sigma’s actions once again, as we got a new update a last week: The ability to change date controls via actions! Pairing this new feature with the ‘Conditions’ beta feature in actions, we can create more user-friendly date filtering with much less hassle. Stay up to date on changes to …
2024 Week 43 | Sigma: Can you create a segmented date control? Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week Thirty-Two! This week, we’re going to highlight one of Sigma’s latest enhancements to Actions. In this challenge, you’ll add actions to controls to show or hide columns in visualizations based on the column names selected in the control. This new action gives users more control over the data they want to …
2024 Week 32 | Sigma: Can you pick the right columns? Read More
Introduction For this week’s challenge, we’re exploring Sigma’s workbook actions, a powerful feature that enables better end-user experiences, nuanced data exploration, and more impactful presentations. Sigma’s workbook actions cover a wide range of interactions, but for this first challenge, we’ll focus on two common action scenarios: clicking to filter and clicking to change. As you …
Introduction This month the Workout Wednesday team wanted to invite guest coaches from around the world to create some challenges that could help highlight our growing global community.It’s my honour to introduce this week’s guest coach, Flávio Matos. Flávio is a colleague of mine at the Data School and has been working with Tableau for …
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by a question from a client. In truth, I was not able to solve the problem for them upfront. This challenge would not exist were it not for an article in the Tableau Community that explains how to achieve the desired outcome – thanks to whoever wrote this up! …
After four amazing challenges from the Tableau Community, we are back in the drivers seat to provide you with this week’s challenge! For your challenge this week, we are focused on interactivity over anything else; This week is simply about getting to know the tool and being creative with your data solutions. So can you …
Week 36: Can you build a custom axis with a tracking reference line? Read More
