Hello again everyone! This week we are looking to add Reference Bands to our Scatter Plots in order to “group” together like items. Looking at NBA Players Total Games and Points spread. Requirements: Dashboard size 920 x 825 Players are grouped into 5 bins by Avg Points per Game 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29 and 30-34+ …
This Week’s Challenge requires some data modelling, but allows for additional UX features not natively available in the product. Requirements Dashboard size is 600 x 600 The Scatter Plot has Sales by Profit for each Category and Year When a user hovers over any category, all years for the category will be connected by a …
It seems lately I have been giving the easy challenges, so I wanted to spice it up with something harder. This week we are going to deal with a new challenge that requires some thinking on Dashboard Actions and Data Modelling. The goal of this challenge is to open up how we think about Tableau …
I’m back after a semi-extended leave, but hoping I have a good challenge for everyone. I love working with Dates, and have come across all sorts of use cases for comparing like-wise periods of time. The challenge below covers a use-case of trying to compare a Custom Date range, to the same number of days …
Week 23: How do Sales compare in the Current Period to the Previous Read More
I’m back! This week we are going to be doing something simple, but has really great benefits. Often, when we share Tableau Public visualizations online and use “showVizHome=no” in the url, we get a viz that is in the Top Left Corner of our monitor. It doesn’t really look right being over there, we would …
This week we are changing things up and looking at a few different Tableau Features. While we all love data visualization, and dashboards, we can still find ourselves trying to slowly push the Excel users. In these cases, we find it helps to give them Tables, with some visual/interactive elements. Requirements Dashboard size should …
In honor of Tableau 10.5 CHAR() function finally supporting extended Unicode Characters (don’t know why this wasn’t in the feature release…..), I decided to have some more fun with text. Requirements Create 1 sheet with a Small Multiple of 20X5 Grids for each Sub-Category in Office Supplies The percent of Total segment starts from …
This week we are going to be working with Dashboard Highlighting, and a bit of experimentation. Requirements Show the difference between White and Minority Players as a percent of Total Players by year Shade the Area between the two lines Grey When hovering over a year, the labels for White and Minority players will …
This week we will be looking at Sub-Category Sales by Month, and creating a highlight table of which sub-categories were the Max and Min Sales in that Month. Requirements Sub-Categories are sorted in Descending order by Total Sales in the Year Each Month will Highlight the MIN Sales in Red, Max Sales in Blue. Pay …
This week we are just building a simple text table……with a twist of course. Requirements Show a table of Sales by Customers and Years Only Include Customers whose sales have increased each year from 2014-2017 Sort them by their 2017 Sales amount The Twist You cannot use any LoD Calculations You cannot use ant Table …
