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#WOW2023 Week 42 | Can you proportionally brush from multi-selection?

Introduction This week’s challenge is another inspired by my everyday work. As we launch new features, we look at how different segments of users engage with them. We wanted a smooth way to click into the segment combinations that were of interest, without having to go back to the top to change a bunch of […]

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#WOW2023 | Week 41 | Can you build a flexible tabular display?

Introduction So my week has rolled around again, and yet again the inspiration for this week comes from this viz by Sam Parsons – Man! That guy is good!!  This week I’m asking you all to recreate a tabular display. It’s a common request from users to just ”show me all the numbers”, while we

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#WOW2023 | Week 39 | Target Achievement Report (Guest)

Introduction Only X months/ a year later, Val is back as a guest coach with another challenge.And if you remember #WOW2022 W35, you know that Val loves a good table! Anicely formatted table, if possible. A table filled with table calcs – even better.This week’s WOW challenges you to create a dynamic tidy-looking table showinga

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2023 Week 38: Can you build a drunken tree chart?

Introduction I joined the Workout Wednesday crew in 2018. Since then I’ve provided–from what I can count–64 challenges. And I’ve never been short of real-life challenges. In my job, I’ve encountered so many problems that I could take apart and provide to the community without exposing who my customers were at the time. Many of

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#WOW2023 Week 36: Can you build a dashboard for pre-aggregated metrics?

Introduction Recently, I needed to build a dashboard from some pre-aggregated, segmented data counting unique users. This created some difficulty, because we may want to look at overall numbers, or one segment, or multiple segments, and that changes the user counts. Each of these have their own level of aggregation in the data, so it

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#WOW2023 | Week 35 | Can you build an interactive Viz in Tooltip?

Introduction I’m always on the lookout for ideas for challenges. Typically I’ll see something someone has done and want to know how they did it and whether I can craft it into a WOW challenge. When my colleague, Sam Parsons, demonstrated the concept of an interactive Viz In Tooltip (VIT) at Tableau Conference this year,

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#WOW2023 Week 34: Can you build a scatterbox?

Introduction I’m so excited to invite Felicia Styer to the blog for this week’s challenge! Felicia is the Associate Director of Analytic Solutions at Playfair Data and hales from Kansas City, MO. Connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn and here is her challenge! Long time fan, first time contributor! This week’s challenge is question

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#WOW2023 | Week 33 | Map Drill-down Challenge

Introduction This week I have a full-on Tableau Spatial challenge for you. Just one worksheet. Minimal formatting. It’s all about the behind-the-scenes magic. Enjoy! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1000 x 800px 1 sheet Create a map of the 48 ‘contigous’ (aka: mainland) US States Plot points for every City in

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