Introduction I was struggling to think of a challenge for this week, so I went back to the archives and found this one. This is looking at Customer Spend Insights, which is looking at their first & second purchase, and whether they are deemed as Outliers or not You have the option to choose between […]
#WOW2026 | Week 19 | Can you visualise Customer Spend Insights? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This challenge was released at the TC26 Workout Wednesday session. Whether you’re here in the room or finding it later, I hope you’ll have fun! In this challenge, we’ll visualize the sessions of Tableau Conference itself. Three difficulty tiers are available, so pick the one that matches your confidence and give it a try.
#WOW2026 | Week 18 | Let’s Visualize TC25! (#TC26 Live Edition) Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Since I jumped the gun on Community Month with Jack’s guest challenge last time around, I was exploring some of the other viz extensions from LaDataViz, when I came upon a radar chart. Since Donna’s challenge last week was a radar chart inspired by a community member technique, I thought it would be interesting
#WOW2026 | Week 17 | Can you build a radar chart using viz extensions? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this week’s community challenge, I am drawing inspiration from this blog post by fellow Ambassador and new Visionary, Johan de Groot. I’ve had radar charts on my back-burner for some time, but never got round to putting out as a challenge, as felt they may seem ‘too fiddly’. But Johan shared a ‘map
#WOW2026 | Week 16 | Can you build a radar chart with map layers? Read More »
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
#WOW2026 | 15 | Mekko charts and offset labels Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge may not be too difficult for some of you, but I created it in order to bring attention to an essential skill – calculating weighted averages. As data analysts, it’s our responsibility to ensure that the data we display is not misleading or innacurate. I didn’t spend too much time explaining
#WOW2026 | Week 14 | Can you calculate the correct metric? Read More »
community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday