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#WOW2024 | Week 1 | Can you compare salaries to the median?

Introduction Happy New Year to you all! This is the start of #WorkoutWednesday’s 7th year – how amazing is that! Thank you to everybody for your continued support and engagement – it really helps keep this initiative going! For the first challenge of 2024, I’ve updated a visualisation I first built several years ago based …

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#WOW2023 | Week 39 | Target Achievement Report (Guest)

Introduction Only X months/ a year later, Val is back as a guest coach with another challenge.And if you remember #WOW2022 W35, you know that Val loves a good table! Anicely formatted table, if possible. A table filled with table calcs – even better.This week’s WOW challenges you to create a dynamic tidy-looking table showinga …

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#WOW2023 Week 25: Can you calculate a percent difference between a range of dates?

Introduction I saw this visualisation floating around my twitter and trending on Tableau Public and thought it would make a great challenge for Workout Wednesday. Big thanks to Jacob for letting me use his visualisation as inspiration today! In this weeks workout, I want you to look at the percent change between two dates, we …

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2023 Week 20: Can you build a heat map with bathymetry lines?

Introduction This week, I’m introducing the idea of taking bathymetry or contour lines on maps and placing the lines on heat maps. These lines come from identifying the elevation (for contour lines) or depth of water (for bathymetry lines) and creating a map using those values. Here is an example of a contour map from …

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2023 Week 14: How short are baseball games in 2023?

Introduction Welcome to community month for 2023. Each year since 2018 we’ve hosted a community month–where we invite different people from the Tableau Community. This year I wanted to invite someone who has been a prolific supporter of the data visualization community but hasn’t been recognized by Tableau as an Ambassador or Visionary for his …

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2023 Week 8: Can you build a comet chart as an alternative to a side-by-side bar chart?

Introduction The theme for February 2023 has been alternatives. This week I present an alternative (and trust me, there are many other alternatives) to my least favorite chart: the side-by-side bar chart. The reason this chart is so difficult for me is because it takes up a lot of space and when I am doing …

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