Introduction Welcome back for Week 9 of Workout Wednesday, Power BI edition. If you’re joining us for the first time, welcome! You can jump right in this week, where we’ll be exploring our data in Power BI. For this week’s challenge are going to use anomaly detection and forecasting to gain a deeper understanding of what’s going on now […]
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Introduction So, I’m a little late for Mardi Gras – but that didn’t stop me from thinking about King Cake, a New Orleans tradition (with French roots) where a little plastic baby is put inside of a cake that is plastered with green, yellow, and purple frosting with tons of sprinkles. Anyone teeth hurt yet?
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Thanks to everyone who has ben participating in #WorkoutWednesday – Power BI edition. This week we are going to be diving into switching metrics in your reports using SWITCH() and a slicer. This method can be especially useful when designing reports for mobile use. Toggling between metrics allows you to save real estate on
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Extensions are live on Tableau Public! Check out this challenge to explore the new Brush Filter extension
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Power BI Conditional Formatting using Background Color, Font Color, and Icons
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Features and functionality on using Tableau and Tableau Public are ever growing. I believe we as WOW have never done this particular object before. Did you know that Tableau has an Extension Gallery? But also did you know that some of the extensions work on Tableau Public? I never thought about using Extensions on
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This month I’ve decided to focus on something you’ve rarely ever seen from me – a good old fashioned text table. This challenge should be straightforward for users of all levels. And of course since I try to avoid plain text tables, this one has some fancy formatting thrown in for good measure. There
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Thanks to everyone who has participated in the first 5 weeks of Workout Wednesday for Power BI. We have a new dataset again this week to help us explore some useful features that are not familiar to all users. This week we are focused on making sure labels in our visuals are readable and
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this week’s challenge, we wanted to hit two birds with one stone: try out a new feature from the Tableau 2020.4 and celebrate Black History Month with an interesting dataset on Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Predictions, table calculations, and parameter actions…oh my! Consider this a feature sampler, building on some previous
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Thanks to everyone who participated in the first month of #WorkoutWednesday – Power BI edition. If you are joining us for the first time this week, welcome to week 5! We’ve got a new dataset and a fun new challenge! Last week you learned how to use the powerful drill-through feature. This week we’ll focus on
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