2018

This week I’m taking Workout Wednesday to the next level by including Tableau Prep in the equation!  If you don’t have Tableau Prep, go get the 30 day trial from here. Prep was released just over a month ago, so it’s the perfect opportunity for us to ensure we’re strengthening our visualization skills and including […]

I’m back after a semi-extended leave, but hoping I have a good challenge for everyone. I love working with Dates, and have come across all sorts of use cases for comparing like-wise periods of time. The challenge below covers a use-case of trying to compare a Custom Date range, to the same number of days

He’s back again! Andy Kriebel shares with a problem that you can only use table calculations to solve Requirements Use only table calculations The bar length is the total sales of each state City must be included in the view. Display only one mark per state. Label each bar by the city with the highest

This week’s Workout Wednesday is an emoji map. The original idea comes from a Dark Sky emoji map of the weather. This worksheet has several major elements you’ll have to work through: Data modeling Percentiles Hex bins of geospatial data Working with emojis Customized “legend” Requirements Dashboard size: 600 x 600, 2 sheets (floating and

This week I was cleaning up my desk and found some old notes where I had been jotting down ideas around visualizing distributions.  At the time I was working with a data set where data points were concentrated around specific numbers and I was exploring ways to visually capture the concentration.  I love looking at

I’m back! This week we are going to be doing something simple, but has really great benefits. Often, when we share Tableau Public visualizations online and use “showVizHome=no” in the url, we get a viz that is in the Top Left Corner of our monitor. It doesn’t really look right being over there, we would

What better way to celebrate the release of step lines and jump lines in Tableau Desktop with a workout aimed at doing them the hard way? Using alternative line charts can be a great way to have more meaningful visual displays of not-so-continuous information.  Or continuous information where it may not be best to display

Sorry for the late post. I’m filling in this week at the last minute. Here is this weeks workout.   click to view on Tableau Public Dashboard size is 700 x 600; tiled; 1 sheet Use a date parameter to select a select end date, limit it to all days in 2017. Use a parameter