Introduction This month I’ve decided to focus on something you’ve rarely ever seen from me – a good old fashioned text table. This challenge should be straightforward for users of all levels. And of course since I try to avoid plain text tables, this one has some fancy formatting thrown in for good measure. There …
2021 Week 6 | Tableau: Can you build a Fancy Text Table? Read More
Introduction This year we’ve made a commitment to start with the basics and build, so this challenge is designed to do just that. This week, you’ll be constructing a Customer Lifetime Value Matrix (CLTV). This viz is frequently used in marketing and retail industries to understand the value of each customer. Specifically, the interesting insights …
2021 Week 2 | Tableau : Can you build a Customer Lifetime Value Matrix? Read More
Introduction Brad Werner is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Brad’s own words: I have a confession. When I first started using Tableau, I was a strict advocate for #TeamFloating. Yes, I used to float ALL objects on my Tableau dashboards. I would decide on a dashboard layout …
Introduction This is my last Workout Wednesday for 2020 (don’t worry, I’ll be back in 2021!), so I thought I’d take it easy on everyone. This week you’ll be building a single chart – a divergent histogram. I first saw a divergent histogram via the Economist almost 3 years ago and tagged it as a …
2020 Week 51: Can you build a Divergent Histogram? Read More
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
Introduction Jami Delagrange is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Jami’s own words: Similar to Ann’s experience with the Clustered Histogram (last week’s challenge), I had an idea recently where I knew how to do the individual parts and wasn’t sure how to put them together. I knew how …
2020 Week 48: Can you create a Variable Width Bar Chart? Read More
Introduction I’ve had a post-it note on my desk since TCish 2020, someone asked me how to make a Clustered Histogram in Tableau and I froze. I know how to make packed bar charts, and I know how to make a histogram, but the idea of a clustered histogram – a TRUE clustered histogram with …
2020 Week 47: Can you create a Clustered Histogram? Read More
Introduction Happy TCish 2020! I can’t believe we’re already on week 41 of 2020 and in the midst of Tableau Conference. I don’t think any of the WOW team could have imagined that we would all be virtual and truly missing the company of the amazing Tableau community. For this week, I wanted to do …
Can You Create a Reference Line for Each Dimension? Read More
Introduction Jami Delagrange is responsible for this week’s Community Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Jami’s own words: A few months ago, I was working with conference registration data and the event team asked the question, “can we look at daily and weekly registrations in the same view?” The chart below is …
2020 Week 38: Can you Visualize Daily and Weekly Ticket Sales in the Same View? Read More
Introduction This year it seems like most of my favorite dashboards are some version of a scatterplot. I’ve always loved the scatterplot since it is such an elegant way to show two measures at once and perfect for unearthing relationships among measures. So for this week’s challenge, I thought I’d make one with a slight …
2020 Week 33: Is Profit Ratio Influenced by Quantity? Read More
