Introduction Last week, our team was faced with an unique challenge and I’m using it as the basis for this week’s challenge! The premise is quite simple – create a dashboard that shows KPIs and a trend of the selected kpi. Allow the user to filter dates, change the period type and select a period […]
#WOW2023 | 22 | Filtering and Highlighting Read More »
community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge is a slight twist on the classic Measure (bar) vs Target (gantt) chart. The key difference here is that we want to allow the user to select a ‘tolerance’ around the specific Target value. We only want to highlight months where profit was Above or Below the permited tolerance. Click to
#WOW2023 | Week 21 | Profit vs Target (with Tolerance) Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week, I’m introducing the idea of taking bathymetry or contour lines on maps and placing the lines on heat maps. These lines come from identifying the elevation (for contour lines) or depth of water (for bathymetry lines) and creating a map using those values. Here is an example of a contour map from
2023 Week 20: Can you build a heat map with bathymetry lines? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I’m so excited to bring this challenge to you live from Tableau Conference 2023 and I get to be the one who created the challenge. I saw something on twitter a while back and wanted to see if I could recreate it in Tableau. This challenge is not as easy as it looks but
#WOW2023 Week 19: Can you create a jitterfly chart? TC23 Live Edition Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction One of my favorite challenges from the past is from Week 4 2020: Can you combine relative and custom dates? I was always fielding questions if I could have a relative date filter and a date picker on the same dashboard, but hadn’t ever figured it out. After Sean’s challenge that week, I implemented
#WOW2023 Week 18: Can you combine relative and custom date filters? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For the last week of Community Month, I’m thrilled to introduce you to my colleague at Biztory, Nik Eveleigh (@MrEvilEye). I’ve known Nik virtually through our shared love of #WOW for around 3 years. After he returned to the UK from South Africa at the end of last year, I was delighted to learn
#WOW2023 | Week 17 | Custom Map Analysis Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
This week’s challenge is to enhance a Superstore text table, inspired by Luke Stanke’s 26 Ways to Enhance your Tables in Tableau and Sam Parsons’s amazing Super Advanced Tableau Tables.
#WOW2023 week 16: Can you build insightful advanced tables? Read More »
community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction It’s Community Month once again here at #WOW2023 which means we have a guest coach. I wanted to use this opportunity to connect with our global community. Without a doubt, the most active group of challenge participants I see on Twitter, beyond those in anglophone countries, are the #DataSaber community based in Japan. I
#WOW2023 | Week 15 | Can you create Digital Signage with Tableau? Read More »
community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to community month for 2023. Each year since 2018 we’ve hosted a community month–where we invite different people from the Tableau Community. This year I wanted to invite someone who has been a prolific supporter of the data visualization community but hasn’t been recognized by Tableau as an Ambassador or Visionary for his
2023 Week 14: How short are baseball games in 2023? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we are focusing on one of the newest features in Tableau 2023.1, Dynamic Axis Titles. This is something we have all been waiting for and it’s such an easy thing to do now. But obviously it’s not going to be as simple as that, it also contains small multiples! Have fun! Click
#WOW2023 Week 13: Can you use dynamic axis titles? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday