Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by something I’d seen at work, and I thought it would be quite fun to see if I could reproduce in Tableau and if so, share as a challenge 🙂 I could, so here it is… can you include & exclude options with a custom control? Click to open …
#WOW2024 | Week 7 | Can you include and exclude options with a custom control? Read More
Introduction We’re continuing retro month this week, and I decided to re-viz Andy’s Week 41 challenge from 2017. I chose this one because I really like the concept of being able to drill down from state into city on the same chart, but I wondered if things would be easier than the calculations required to …
WOW2023 Week 30: Can you build a dynamic drill down scatterplot in one view? Read More
Introduction This July we bring you another month of challenges with a theme: We are going RETRO!Each coach will be going back through the WorkoutWednesday archives and re-vizzing a challenge from the past. It may be one of their favourite challenges, or maybe there’s a much easier way to do …
Introduction This week’s challenge is another exploration of dynamic zone visibility, this time combined with a mobile app-like concept. Sometimes executives need just a few critical metrics at their fingertips, and this is a concept I’ve mulled around for a while (probably stemming from this concept by Anya A’Hearn) but felt like dynamic zone visibility …
#WOW2023 Week 24 | Can you build a mobile KPI app? Read More
Introduction One of my favorite challenges from the past is from Week 4 2020: Can you combine relative and custom dates? I was always fielding questions if I could have a relative date filter and a date picker on the same dashboard, but hadn’t ever figured it out. After Sean’s challenge that week, I implemented …
#WOW2023 Week 18: Can you combine relative and custom date filters? Read More
Introduction Who doesn’t love a good KPI dashbaord? This one is fairly simple and straightforward. Let’s look at four simple metrics and see how each subcategory ranks within a selected metric. With this challenge – MIND THE NUMBER FORMATTING 🙂 Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 700 x 350 2 sheets Display …
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by one of the charts Ann Jackson used in her Advanced Speed Tips session with Lorna Brown. If you had a chance to watch live or virtually, you know it was an awesome session with some great tips and techniques (so if you haven’t seen it yet, you should …
Introduction There has been an overwhelming response from the last couple of weeks series so I thought, let’s continue. How many times have you gone into a meeting with a finished dashboard and someone’s asked “Can you just…”. Well here is my “Can you just…”!! I want you to be able to switch what measures …
Introduction This Workout comes from trying to solve a challenge by two Data School Consultants (Theo & Chris). We started down one route but ended up doing a different route. I want to say there are probably two ways to solve this, but I didn’t have the time for the first route. So if you …
#WOW2021 W50 | Tableau: Can you recreate this drill down? Read More
Introduction To round out my beginner #WOW2021 series and as a nod to the most wonderful time of the year (#TC…duh), I wanted to re-imagine a couple of blasts from the Tableau Conference past…so while no points for originality here, my hope is that the principles of these tricks of the trade will help reduce …
