Introduction Hello everyone, I’m very happy to be back for another year of Workout Wednesday! For my first challenge, I wanted to focus on something that every Tableau learner will encouter: Table Calculations and Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations, and what is the difference between them? Well, sometimes only one of these types of calculations […]
#WOW2026 | Week 7 | Exploring Table Calcs vs LODs Read More »
Introduction I am excited to begin my third year as a Workout Wednesday coach! This year, I remain committed to providing challenges that help you flex your Tableau muscles and maintain your analytical strength. This week’s challenge is inspired by a real-world scenario I encountered recently. While building a dashboard to track service usage, I
#WOW2026 | Week 6 | Can you account for nulls in your averages? Read More »
Introduction Thanks to tools like Tableau MCP, AI can now handle deep-dive data analysis for us. Ask it “why is this metric dropping?” and you’ll get a pretty solid answer. But before that step — noticing that something looks off in the first place — that’s still on us, looking at a dashboard. This week,
#WOW2026 | Week 5 | KPI Trend Monitor with Period Comparison Read More »
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 »
Introduction Last month I had some colleagues that were able to attend DataFam Europe, and a few of them came back saying how much they enjoyed Tristan Guillevin’s presentation and asked if we could get his viz extensions for our Cloud site. In the process, I decided to play with a few, and since they
#WOW2026 | Week 3 | Can you create KPI cards with viz extensions? Read More »
Introduction Welcome back to #WOW2026! Thank you all for your continued support, and for bearing with us while we carried out some maintenance on the website. For the first challenge of the year, I’m asking you to recreate a technique that was originally introduced way back in 2010, and re-shared during a ‘tips and tricks’
#WOW2026 | Week 2 | Can you create a fake Viz in Tooltip? Read More »
Introduction For my last challenge of the year, I decided to make it a little spicier. It has parameters, it has fun calculations, it has AND/OR logic, and it has a dynamic title that is worthy of your attention. Here’s hoping you can apply all those skills you’ve gained this year to sail through this
#WOW2025 | Week 50 | Top 1% of Customers by Profit OR Sales OR Quantity Read More »
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 »
Introduction Following last week’s challenge, we’re continuing with the Bar Chart Race theme — but this time, it’s more advanced! Last time, we created a basic Bar Chart Race, but because we used monthly data, the animation movement was somewhat discrete. This week’s challenge takes it to the next level by using Data Densification and
#WOW2025 | Week 48 | Advanced Bar Chart Race Read More »
Introduction This week, Agentforce World Tour Tokyo is being held in Japan! As one of the many sessions from DataFam, Workout Wednesday will be holding its first-ever live session in Japan! For this special occasion, With Yoshi and other supporters from the Japanese Workout Wednesday enthusiasts have created a fun, quick challenge themed around a
#WOW2025 | Week 47 | Can you make a bar chart race? Read More »
