Introduction This week is Dreamforce; Salesforce’s conference. So I thought I would stay on theme and use Salesforce Data. When I first started to see Salesforce pre-built dashboards they included several elements, but the one we are going to focus on today is the Waterfall chart. This allows us to see how much value is …
#WOW2022 W38: Can you create a Waterfall Pipeline using Salesforce Data? Read More
Introduction I sit back every week and watch the other amazing members of the #WorkoutWednesday Power BI team go through Deneb challenges like it’s nothing. The visuals are fantastic, the customizations are intriguing, but the truth is – I’ve never done a Deneb visual! Until this week that is. If you’re like me and …
Introduction This week’s challenge is focused on Level of Detail (LOD) calculations. We could probably build this chart using Table Calculations, but we’re not going to. Deliberate practice with some basic LODs. This also can be the basis for some cohort analysis, aligning various groups from different time periods on the same starting point. And …
#WOW2022 Week 37: Can you create a common starting point? Read More
Every needed to visualize a % of total across two dimensions & measures? Then the Marrimeko chart is what you need! Check out this week’s #WOW2022 challenge for a throwback to 2017 week 8
Introduction Another PlotlyJS visual this week – creating a split violin plot. We’ll be comparing male and female dating preferences collected from speed dating events between 2002-2004. EXTRA CREDIT – For those with a little more time on their hands, an extended workout challenge is included; conduct your own data analysis and create a data …
2022 Week 36 | Power BI: Split Violin Plot and HTML Read More
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’ – …
#WOW2022 | Week 35 | Conditional Table Formatting with Dynamic Headers Read More
Introduction This week we are exploring another lesser used chart type: the comet chart. Comet charts show the evolution of one or two measures over time. They allow you to see change between two time periods across a category while emphasizing the direction of the change. You might use a comet chart instead of a dumbbell …
Introduction This week we return to another business-specific challenge. This team we will explore hospitality data. The goal of this challenge is to determine what the average occupancy is by day at three different properties. The challenge of this data is that you’ll only ever know when customers check-in or check-out. Not the actual total …
2022 – Week 34: What is the average occupancy by weekday? Read More
Introduction Calculation Groups in Power BI essentially allow you to apply logic or formatting to a variety of measures at the same time. For example, let’s say you were looking to create a Month-To-Date, Quarter-To-Date, and Year-To-Date view across Revenue, Orders, and Units. This would require you to create a calculation for each of the …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re visualizing two series of values in a take on last week’s Tableau challenge! This week’s challenge uses youth cellphone data and gives you the opportunity to either build a dumbbell chart using Charticulator or to build a lipstick column chart using a custom visual. Complete one or both …
2022 Week 33 | Power BI: Compare two series of values Read More
