My personal favorite Workout Wednesday challenges are those that come straight from the workplace, this is one of those weeks. Just recently I was asked to produce a very similar visualization, but with the affordance of my good friend Alteryx. For this challenge, all of the data prep has to be done in Tableau, without […]
2019 Week 12: Customer Retention Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
For this week’s workout, we look at one of my favorite chart types, the pareto. I love the pareto chart as a data exploration resource, and also as a powerful analytic resource. If you aren’t familiar with the pareto, the purpose is to see what % of x, makes up what % of y, with
2019 Week 8: What percentage of products make up 80% of sales? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Hello and welcome to week 4 of Workout Wednesday 2019, and my first contribution as an official team member! This week’s challenge should be on the easier side, and forces us to think a little bit about data prep, before we get to producing our Workout Wednesday visualization. I was recently challenged at work to
2019 Week 4: Headcount Tracking Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Why wait for 2019 when I can start challenging you all right now? I’m not quite ready to jump off the set action hype train yet, and this challenge is setup to help you think about some different ux/ui capabilities that set actions can enable. I don’t anticipate this being the most difficult challenge you’ve
Week 47: Unit Volume Comparison Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Luke is out for the next month so this week 2016 IronViz Champion Curtis Harris is filling in. Here is Curtis’s post: I’ve heard this question many times in my career after presenting a completed viz to a stakeholder at work, “That’s fantastic, but compared to what?” So even if it is not directly requested,
Week 12: Sub-Category Sales Change in the Last Two Periods Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday