Introduction Happy New Year everyone, my turn comes round awfully quickly these days. As it’s still the start of 2026, I didn’t want to go too hard too quick. Hopefully this isn’t too bad. We are flexing our Table Calc, Date and Order of Operations skills in this challenge. Have fun! Click to open in […]
#WOW2026 | Week 4 | Can you create a dynamic moving average? Read More »
Introduction I thought about this challenge after I had a question about doing it, usually where these ideas come from. Tableau don’t make this easy and unfortunately you have to hack it a little bit. But today we are going to create breadcrumbs in Tableau especially when using filters Click to open in Tableau Public
#WOW2025 W49: Can you create breadcrumbs for filters? Read More »
Introduction I had a thought last week about using the parameter driven axis ranges and whether they could be reset to the minimum and maximum. Turns out they can be, and hence this challenge. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements 1 sheet You’ll need: 4 parameters 4 LODs 1 colour calc (reference lines are
#WOW2025 | Week 40 | Can you create this Zoom and Reset Scatter Plot? Read More »
Introduction I created this viz to show off some crazy golf scores from my latest cohort at The Data School, especially to show off the fact I won. But I added in some Table Calculations and other bits to add some context, I thought it would make a good challenge. Click to open in Tableau
#WOW2025 Week 33: Can you recreate this Marginal Histogram Read More »
Introduction This may seem like a seeming normal line and area chart but I said “Why Tableau” numerous times when trying to create it.You want to be able to see the Top X customers per Quarter and what their percentage of total sales is. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 800×800 1
#WOW2025 Week 26: Can you create this seemingly simple line chart? Read More »
Introduction Some of you may have seen this challenge as I got my weeks all confused but here we go. Coming fresh off of Tableau Conference and I loved seeing different use cases and tricks. So part of this comes from a tips session with Nhung Lee. And well obviously some additional techniques because I
#WOW2025 Week 19: Can you create stars & reference lines? Read More »
Introduction Starting the community month with a Challenge from a Data School Consultant Abby Poon. She came to me with a puzzle and we solved it together. The idea is you want to be able to see how the Top X customers are changing over the last 3 years (dynamically). Each year the top X
Introduction I always thought this type of exercise had to be overly complex with Level of Detail calculations or Table Calc, but actually you don’t need to use those to do this challenge. So I challenge you to be able to compare to a selected months value WITHOUT using LODs or Table Calcs. Click to
#WOW2025 Week 4: Can you compare to a selected months value? Read More »
Introduction This weeks challenges come from a fellow Data School Coach, Robbin Vernooij. He created this back in 2019, but I thought it was a pretty cool dashboard and gets you to think about Sets in a good way! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 1000×800 Connect the data together You can
#WOW2024 W49: Can you create a scatter plot investigation? Read More »
Introduction This week we are live at DataFam Europe in London and we have paired up with Preppin Data to make sure our data is in the best format ready to go for building our visualisation. If you want to take part in the PreppinData challenge, you can find it here. As we are in
#WOW2024 W46: DataFam Europe Live Read More »
