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 charts

Options

BAR CHART

LINE CHART

Sigma chart type: bar vs. line

Create your first line chart in Sigma

Formatting axis labels

Create your first line chart

Line chart customization

Add tooltips to your line chart

A multiple line chart to visualize merchant trends

Area charts and legend controls

Single Line Chart

Multi-Line Chart

Area Chart

Chart type match-up: line and area charts

Building area charts and legend controls

Linking charts with a shared legend control

Multiple y-axis and combo charts

Choosing the right axis for comparing two metrics

Comparing multiple measures on one chart

Comparing two metrics on a shared y-axis

Creating a combo chart with dual y-axes

Beyond the Bar Chart

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.

Pie and donut charts

Building a donut chart with labeled legend

Visualizing customer join-year distribution

Trellis charts

Understanding trellis rows vs. column

Trellising escalation rates by team

Trellising escalation rates by merchant and year

Advanced trellis charts

Understanding trellised chart rules

Advanced trellising donut charts

Pie Charts and Small Multiples

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.

KPI charts

Understanding KPI elements in Sigma

Creating a KPI chart in Sigma

Creating KPIs from table summaries

KPI customization

Understanding KPI chart trends

Comparing customer growth rates over time

Configuring period comparisons in KPI charts

Gauge charts

Understanding KPI and gauge chart use cases

Tracking progress toward a goal with gauge charts

Monitoring call durations

Course wrap-up

KPI and Gauge Charts

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.

Introduction to Sigma

Practice Sigma visualizations with hands-on skills to build, customize, and combine charts for clear, impactful data storytelling—no coding needed.

Visualizations in Sigma

Learn to build and customize Sigma charts to tell clear, compelling data stories—no coding required.

Show the total number of fraud-flagged calls over the past 5 years

Compare the total number of fraud-flagged calls to non-fraudulent calls over time

Understand whether fraud-flagged calls are becoming a larger or smaller share of all calls over time

Chart type match-up: line and area charts

Visualizations in Sigma

Hands-on interactive exercise