Author name: Ann Jackson

At time of writing Tableau 2018.3 was just released.  With it comes some brand new features, including the one that’s the focus of this workout: set actions.  Sets have long been a feature in Tableau and are responsible for creating dashboard actions, but set actions are something completely new.  Set actions allow you to interact with

This week’s workout is designed for the end user looking for immediate insight – think of an executive stakeholder or someone more drawn to quickly getting numbers and results.  These folks don’t necessarily have the time to look deeper into the details, but are still craving data in context. To satisfy their requests you’ll be

One of my absolute favorite things about Tableau is that not only is it a fantastic data display tool, but it is amazing at data exploration and discovery.  While you’re in the flow of analysis there are tons of built in features that provide you feedback, awareness, and insight into your data.  Everything from displaying

We’re wrapping up our month of Community submissions with a workout submitted by Zen Master Neil Richards.  A great way to end an awesome month facilitated by so many members of the Workout Wednesday community.  We’ve definitely been inspired and challenged by your contributions and impressed with the support you’ve given to those completing your

This week we’re visualizing conflict data provided by ACLED.  ACLED, which stands for Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, is a “disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project.”  You’ll notice throughout the Tableau Community this week that there are several partner projects going on – all designed to provide awareness on ACLED’s cause. 

This week’s workout is all about finding signals or patterns in data, specifically using run charts (aka line charts).  Variance over time is one of the most common ways to understand a process and often when we’re visualizing the data we use data summarization tools like the mean (average) or median to help aid in

For this week’s workout I’ve decided to keep things simple and focus on creating one powerful alternative visualization for comparison over time.  I think we all tend to get stuck in a bar chart rut and struggle to find ways to spice things up.  I tend to do this a lot, especially when I am