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2020 Week 28: Are Sales on Track with Goal?

Introduction Congratulations!  We are now halfway through 2020 – it’s been a remarkable year, certainly full of twists, turns, and the unexpected. The purpose of this week’s challenge is to demonstrate how a metric compares to a goal.  Like most goal data I encounter, the sales goals for this challenge don’t reside in the same …

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2020 Week 27: What is the distribution of total orders by customer?

Introduction After many weeks of practical challenges. I’ve decided to switch it up this week. If I’m being honest I’ve been saving this challenge since August of last year (it’s still not the oldest challenge I am saving). This weeks challenge is to make a symmetrical dot plot. Not only is the dot plot symmetrical …

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2020 Week 26: How does the company perform in the fiscal year?

Introduction Calendar years run from January 1st until December 31st, but an organization’s fiscal year might start in a different month. In this week’s challenge, a company’s fiscal year runs from October 1st through September 31st. Let’s see how this company performs. Configure your workbook as follows:  Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard …

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2020 Week 24: Can you compare a 3-day vs. 14-day moving average and describe the latest trend?

Introduction I’ve got an exciting challenge for you this week!  It involves collaboration with a peer of mine in the data community (Jami Delagrange, who you may recognize as an upcoming Community Month contributor) and also a challenge that involves working with COVID-19 data. This built-for-mobile dashboard was born out of seeking to understand the …

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2020 Week 22: Profitability spotlight – is your budget recovered?

Introduction This week’s goal is to create a bi-dimensional chart (alternative parallel chart) that reveals if your budget has recovered or not. Parallel Coordinates represent multi-dimensional data across a set of vertical axis- different measures have different scales -, for this week’s challenge you will have to figure out how to show 2 different measures …

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2020 Week 21: Can you design for an automatic phone layout?

Introduction Creating the perfect dashboard requires time and patience, do we put the same amount of effort into creating dashboards ready made for mobile. This weeks shows how best to build a desktop dashboard for the automatic mobile layout. As mentioned by Bridget Cogley. Tableau’s automatic phone layout follows the a-z pattern. So top left …

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2020 Week 20: How much do these states contribute to the total?

Introduction What’s up #WOWzers! Have you heard the news? Tableau just release a feature-packed release with v2020.2. So many cool new features to try out and the #WOW2020 enjoyed my new feature challenge so much last time, they invited me back to do a challenge for this release too! One new feature that I’d been looking …

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