Introduction This week we have a challenge by Lisa Hitch, Coach of the New York Data School and Winner of the Tableau Conference Tips Battle. This week we’re putting a fresh spin on a classic chart: the Pareto chart! The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) tells us that roughly 80% of outcomes […]
2026 | Week 28 | Can you build a Pareto Chart with Colored Backgrounds? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This challenge is similar to other challenges, except you’re trying to think differently. Previously this challenge would have been done with LODs or Table Calcs, whilst using Parameter Actions. But you don’t need those fancy Table Calcs or LODs to make the basis of this to work.Yes this does contain some hacky elements, mainly
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This weeks challenge comes from a Data School Consultant – Jacob Aronson This week’s challenge puts the spotlight on some of America’s lesser known colleges and universities – those that compete at the D3 athletic level (including my Alma Mater, Carleton College).The 400 schools are organized into ~44 conferences so that teams that are
#WOW2026 W21: Can you map out the D3 athletic conferences? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I was struggling to think of a challenge for this week, so I went back to the archives and found this one. This is looking at Customer Spend Insights, which is looking at their first & second purchase, and whether they are deemed as Outliers or not You have the option to choose between
#WOW2026 | Week 19 | Can you visualise Customer Spend Insights? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Every week I’m reminded at how much people struggle with containers in Tableau. So I thought why not make another challenge to see how people get on. I’ll be giving you the solution file and it’s your job to recreate the same item hierarchy Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1200×800
#WOW2026 | Week 11 | Can you use layout containers? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday