After doing these courses, I feel confident creating professional visualizations and dashboards
Shoebur RahmanProcurement Specialist, Giz Bangladesh
Course Description
Get ready to advance your data storytelling skills with Visualizations in Sigma course. In this course, you’ll learn how to create and customize a wide variety of visualizations in Sigma. We will explore line, area, pie, donut, KPI, gauge, and combo charts, and discover when each works best to align your different analytical goals.You’ll practice customizing axes, labels, tooltips, colors, and legends, and learn how to use trellising, multiple y-axes, and the aggregate data feature for deeper analysis.By the end of this course, you’ll know how to select the right visualization for your data, format it effectively, and combine visuals into dashboards that communicate insights beautifully. No code, no complexity—just hands-on, practical skills to help you tell your data story with confidence in Sigma.
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Curriculum
Course outline
1
Beyond the Bar Chart
In this chapter, you’ll go beyond basic bar charts to explore advanced ways of visualizing trends and comparisons in Sigma. You’ll learn to build and format line and area charts, customize visuals with colors and labels, and use combo charts with multiple axes to simplify complex data.
- Basic line charts50 XP
- Sigma chart type: bar vs. line100 XP
- Create your first line chart in Sigma50 XP
- Formatting axis labels50 XP
- Create your first line chart100 XP
- Line chart customization50 XP
- Add tooltips to your line chart100 XP
- A multiple line chart to visualize merchant trends100 XP
- Area charts and legend controls50 XP
- Chart type match-up: line and area charts100 XP
- Building area charts and legend controls50 XP
- Linking charts with a shared legend control100 XP
- Multiple y-axis and combo charts50 XP
- Choosing the right axis for comparing two metrics50 XP
- Comparing multiple measures on one chart50 XP
- Comparing two metrics on a shared y-axis100 XP
- Creating a combo chart with dual y-axes100 XP
2
Pie Charts and Small Multiples
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to visualize part-to-whole relationships and compare categories across multiple dimensions using Sigma. You’ll build and customize pie and donut charts, and create multi-faceted views by trellising on one or two values. This will help you turn complex datasets into organized grids of small multiples, making it easier to highlight proportions, patterns, and relationships in your data.
3
KPI and Gauge Charts
In this chapter, you’ll create and customize KPI and Gauge charts in Sigma to track business performance. You’ll build KPI charts with key metrics, timelines, and comparisons, and explore how Gauge charts show progress toward targets. You’ll configure their components, adjust ranges, and apply custom formatting to make performance indicators clear and visually impactful.
Visualizations in Sigma
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