Introduction Welcome to Week 35 of 2025! When building reports in Power BI, one of the most common requests I hear from users is: “Can I explore different KPIs side by side without creating dozens of visuals?” The good news: yes, you can! And it’s cleaner than ever with field parameters grouped by category. In …
2025 Week 35 | Grouped Field Parameters in a Matrix Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week 20 of 2025! This week, I’m going to be a little less prescriptive than I have been in the past. This week isn’t too difficult if you’re familiar with some of Sigma’s long-standing features, like table groupings and lineage. I believe in you! You are going to learn to use a …
2025 Week 20 | Sigma: Can you find the most popular? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week 21 of 2025! This report allows users to select a performance metric (e.g., Revenue) and compare its values across 2024 and 2023. It provides a flexible way to explore year-over-year changes and spot trends or anomalies through interactive visuals. Good luck! -Andrei Requirements Main Visual: Area Chart with Year-on-Year Comparison Green …
2025 Week 20 | Year-over-Year Selected Metric Trends Read More »
Introduction Welcome to Week Forty! In my last article, Week 36, we covered how to affect multiple columns using the same filter. This week, we’re going to focus on even more advanced filtering techniques. What do you do when you want to compare multiple arrays? Luckily Sigma recently released a brand new function: ArrayIntersection. In …
Introduction Welcome to Week Thirty-Six! This week, we’re going to focus on some more advanced filtering. By now, you should know how to utilize a page control’s targets to filter a single column in an element. What do you do when you need to affect multiple columns in the same element? You can utilize a …
2024 Week 36 | Sigma: Can you filter without targets? Read More »
Introduction I was recently catching up on the Flerlage Twins blog, and came across a post that I had somehow missed from the end of last year about trying to solve a highlighting problem with donut charts when filtering. I read through it, and was surprised that my favorite technique from Yuri Fal didn’t work, …
#WOW2024 | Week 26 | Can you filter from a donut without highlighting the pie? Read More »
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! …
Introduction I’ve heard last week’s challenge was a tough one, but it was great to see so many people participating and learning from it! My challenge this week was inspired by a colleague at work. Without revealing too much, it has been designed to test your understanding of how filters work in Tableau, based on …
Introduction Sam Epley (100% completion club #WOW2020) is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Sam’s own words: Several months ago, I was working with a client who wanted to provide their end user with some pretty clever functionality I’d never seen before. They wanted their user to be …
2020 Week 49: Can you toggle between AND & OR filtering logic? Read More »
