Author name: Erica Hughes

#WOW2022 | Week 40 | Applying Accessibility Principles to Data Visualization

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Introduction October is Community Month here at Workout Wednesday. This means that each challenge will be brought to you by a guest coach from our wonderful data community Kicking things off this week, we have a challenge by Collin Smith (@collinalldata).  “Have you ever tried to incorporate accessibility into a Tableau dashboard? Incorporating accessibility into our […]

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#WOW2022 | Week 35 | Conditional Table Formatting with Dynamic Headers

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Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by a guest coach, my colleague Valerija Kirjackaja, who came across this problem at work and created a beautiful solution for it. How often do you get asked to re-create Excel tables in Tableau? On a scale from 1 to ‘I am never doing this again’ –

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#WOW2022 | Week 25 | Double drill-down with Set Actions

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Introduction My second favourite challenge in Tableau, after Table Calculations, is anything with Set Actions. Some of you may have already used these in previous challenges this year, but this week I am dedicating it to this wonderful (and sometimes tricky) Tableau functionality. Warning: this is not a beginner-friendly challenge! The problem I wanted to

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