Introduction Community Month is back! 🎉To kick things off, Hideaki Yamamoto and Tomoki Goda from Japan Tableau User Group are bringing a challenge inspired by one of the Japan Tableau User Group’s beloved events.Here’s a message from both of them! Meet “Viz Tsukurima Show!” (VizTS), a fan-favorite speed-viz event hosted by JTUG.It kicked off in […]
#WOW2026 | Week 13 | Let’s Viz Tsukurima Show! Read More »
Introduction I was recently looking into the Radial Viz Extension after Sunburst support was added in Tableau 2025.3, and realized it can also create gauge charts with ease. Turns out this has actually been possible since the Radial Extension first launched in 2024.2! Building gauge charts in Tableau used to require map layers and dedicated
#WOW2026 | Week 12 | Create a Gauge Chart with Tableau Extensions Read More »
Introduction Every week I’m reminded at how much people struggle with containers in Tableau. So I thought why not make another challenge to see how people get on. I’ll be giving you the solution file and it’s your job to recreate the same item hierarchy Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1200×800
#WOW2026 | Week 11 | Can you use layout containers? Read More »
Introduction Frequent Workout Wednesday participant Jack Hineman reached out to me last week saying he had just come up with something at work he thought would make a good WOW challenge. He sent it to me and it looked really interesting, so we’ve got a guest challenge this week. Here’s Jack: I have been debating
#WOW2026 | Week 10 | Baseline YoY Revenue Read More »
Introduction This week we’re going to build out a parallel coordinates chart – a type of visualisation used to display and compare multiple numerical measures. My daughter, Mia, is an academy level footballer and wears a stats vest in matches and training to capture lots of data about her performance. I’d been meaning to try
#WOW2026 | Week 9 | Can you build a parallel coordinates chart? Read More »
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
#WOW2026 week 8: DZV and Filter Actions Read More »
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 »
