Introduction It’s good to be back WOWsers. This week is looking at showing missing selected periods and autosizing bars based on the selected period (Monthly, Weekly, Daily). It also gives Set Actions some love. The dates idea came from Michael McFadden. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1000px by 600 px 2 …
Week 12 2020: Can you show missing selected periods and autosize bars? Read More
Introduction I’ve heard rumblings that the past few weeks have been a little difficult – so this week I’ve decided to keep it simple. The final visualization comes from something I encountered recently. I have a client that works with data that is very volume specific per day, so they wanted a way to quickly …
Introduction But first… Well, this is it! This week marks my final WorkoutWednesday challenge. Its been so much fun contributing the last couple of months, I hope you enjoy my challenges. But I’ve still got one more, this one. So let’s get to it. The Challenge If you haven’t heard, Tableau version 2020.1 has been …
WOW2020 Week 10: Can you use spatial BUFFER() functions in 2 ways? Read More
Introduction I’m not going to hide it: this week will be hard. But this challenge is inspired by real events. In the four months I’ve helped solve various versions of this same problem: how do you do nest a table calculation inside of a level-of-detail calculation? You don’t. But you can nest table calculations–which is …
There is still a need for legacy reporting, how can we use Tableau to create a report where one row contains all the data? Here’s how to create a concatenated list of values
Introduction At the last North West Tableau User Group, I watched a presentation from Ryan Lowers and Nathan Leather where they looked at using parameters as a data source. You can see their workbook here. So this week we are focusing on using Parameters as a Data Source. How can we add data to the current data we have. …
Week 7: What happens if? Can you update sales forecast and targets using only parameters? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is ripped directly from two different requests I had over the past week. The idea is simple, create a single visualization that displays performance in different metric categories and provide an overall health indicator. This concept may look very familiar for people accustomed to KPI indicators in Excel (or dare I …
Introduction This week I wanted to share a challenge that comes from a chat that I had with Zach Bowders near the beginning of the year. Zach was shared a step-ranking visualization he was putting together and I really thought it was a great iteration of the chart type. While there have ben step-ranking charts …
Introduction Well here we are! My first week as an “official” contributor of #WorkoutWednesday! I’m so excited to share my three (3) challenges with you so let’s get to it with the first one. In my day to day life at Cerner, I build analytics that cast a wide net of user personas with all …
Week 04: Can you combine relative and custom dates? Read More
Introduction This week, I wanted to take a look at how people could visualise time in a unique way. My idea around this is planning. Looking at time in this manner allows people to look at workload / order load etc and see where was most and least popular, which will allow planning for the …
