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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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
2020 Week 53: Can you build with containers? Read More »
community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday