Introduction For the week’s challenge we’re looking at Gantt charts! Gantt chart don’t have to necessarily show timeline data. In Tableau, they can be used to show “floating” bar charts. Which can be very powerful in certain use cases. This challenge looks at historical American Football Super Bowl betting odds and game results. In this […]
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to week 15 and week 3 of Community month! I’m so thrilled to be partnering with Tableau Visionary HOF’er, Linsday Betzendahl! 6 months ago or so, while chatting, she mentioned she was messing around with stacked bars originally for the offset labels but determined that the Mekko concept was actually where she had
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to week 9! I recently had a client reach out about some advanced navigation and filtering requests for their dashboard. It combined elements of Dynamic Zone Visibility and different types of filter actions. And I thought it was the perfect challenge for this week so here ya go! Click to open in Tableau
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community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Sean here and I’m back with another challenge this week. This week we’re challenging you to create a population pyramid using HR data from RWFD. Check it out! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Size 1300×600 1 sheet Show the male and female head counts by age group Show the total headcount by
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we’re going easier than typical. We’re going back to the basics. We’re going to practice our Table calculations in a simple easy dashboard. If you wanna take it up a notch, feel free but this week is keeping it simple. So here go! Let’s practice Table Calcs This week’s challenges highlights data
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Tableau, Uncategorized
Introduction Have I ever talked about how much I love table calcs? They are super powerful and often more performant than the often overused LOD expression. So that’s what we’re going to practice this week. Can you create a control chart only using table calcs? Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements 1 sheet create
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I’m so excited to be back for another WOW challenge! Fresh off the heels of Tableau Conference, I’m back in dashboard mode. This week I was faced with an interesting use case that I needed to accomplished and after I did, I knew it would make a great challenge. So here we go! So
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Tableau, Uncategorized, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to week 9 – and just like that we’re already welcoming March ????. I’m so excited to be partnering with fellow Kansas Citian & Tableau Visionary, Felicia Styer, for this week’s challenge. Recently she created a framework for what she calls “binary parameters” which allows for a solution for multi-select parameters. The goal
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction One of things that I really enjoy about using Tableau is finding interesting charts “in the wild” and attempting to replicate them. Last month, I saw a Power BI WOW challenge from Meagan that looked really interesting and I wanted to try it out. So here go! Can you visualize ranges? Click to open
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Tableau, Uncategorized, Workout WednesdayIntroduction Hey there #DataFam! Welcome to week 48 of 2024…that’s wild when you think about it. That means that we have 47 other challenges already this year. So what are doing this week? We’re gonna play different mark types on dual axis. This week’s challenge is something I’m calling a “candle line” chart. Check it
#WOW2024 | 48 | Can you make a Candle Line Chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday