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#WOW2026 | Week 23 | Can you create a double-sided multi-row Stem-and-Leaf Plot?

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Introduction When browsing around for inspiration for this week’s challenge, I came across this stem & leaf Power BI WOW challenge by Meagan Longoria, which in turn was inspired by a Tableau #WOW challenge set by Yusuke in 2024. So I thought it would be fun to go ‘full circle’ and see if I could […]

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#WOW2026 | 23 | Fun with Gantt Charts

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Introduction For the week’s challenge we’re looking at Gantt charts! Gantt chart don’t have to necessarily show timeline data. In Tableau, they can be used to show “floating” bar charts. Which can be very powerful in certain use cases. This challenge looks at historical American Football Super Bowl betting odds and game results. In this

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#WOW2026 W21: Can you map out the D3 athletic conferences?

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Introduction This weeks challenge comes from a Data School Consultant  – Jacob Aronson This week’s challenge puts the spotlight on some of America’s lesser known colleges and universities – those that compete at the D3 athletic level (including my Alma Mater, Carleton College).The 400 schools are organized into ~44 conferences so that teams that are

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#WOW2026 | Week 20 | Expanding Rows

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Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by one of the new features announced at Devs on Stage at the recent Tableau Conference.Devs on Stage unveiled nearly 30 new features. Chart Layers stole the show for me, but I’m also genuinely excited about Data Driven Formatting—the ability to dynamically change font size, container size, color, and

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#WOW2026 | Week 19 | Can you visualise Customer Spend Insights?

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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

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#WOW2026 | Week 18 | Let’s Visualize TC25! (#TC26 Live Edition)

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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.

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#WOW2026 | Week 17 | Can you build a radar chart using viz extensions?

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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

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#WOW2026 | Week 16 | Can you build a radar chart with map layers?

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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

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#WOW2026 | 15 | Mekko charts and offset labels

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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

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#WOW2026 | Week 14 | Can you calculate the correct metric?

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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

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