Introduction Today I’m excited to share a challenge in collaboration with Dr. Eric Eager at PFF. PFF analyzes data about professional football (in this case the American version). In this game, there are many players, but the most critical player supports a role called the Quarterback. In this challenge you’ll count the number of consecutive […]
2021 Week 34: How Many Consecutive Starts? Read More »
Introduction After the results of the community survey, the top ranked feature was Table Calculations, so guess what? Let’s do some Table Calculations! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard 600 x 600 ONE SHEET Table Calcs ONLY! Create a parameter controlled moving average by month for sales. Create a way to multi-select subcategories
Introduction We recently wrapped up a Survey for the Workout Wednesday community gauged at understanding what YOU are interested and what areas of opportunity our team may have. During our latest group meeting I was struck with the idea that this was the perfect opportunity to get a twofer – practice visualizing survey data AND
2021 Week 32 | Tableau: Visualize our Survey Data Read More »
Introduction The ability to efficiently find the proverbial needle in a haystack is worth its weight in gold. How many times has a key stakeholder asked you to give them a shortlist of products (insert the focus of your analysis) to focus on for business improvement/optimization opportunities…and they’ve asked you to get back to them
2021 Week 31: Can You Find the Needle in the Haystack? Read More »
I love puzzles, it’s the reason I love #WorkoutWednesday and have since it began in 2017. This week we’re tackling a recent puzzle I was confronted with. Let’s count the number of consecutive weeks with more sales than the week before. Can you solve it?
#WOW2021 | 30 | Let’s go Streaking! Read More »
Introduction This week we have teamed up with the Preppin Data team and the PBI team, to come up with a challenge cross over. As the Olympics is starting imminently we thought it would be appropriate to visualise the Olympic Schedule. We would encourage you to take a look at all challenges this week to
2021 Week 29 | Tableau: Can you rebuild the Olympic Schedule? Read More »
Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday is brought to you by Josh Jackson. For those who don’t know, Josh is my husband! He typically prefers to stay in the background, but asked if he could borrow one of my weeks to share this challenge. Here’s the challenge in his own words: This week is inspired by
2021 Week 28 | Tableau: Can you build an app to visualize wildfires? Read More »
Introduction Like a fine pinot grigio, I really enjoy a good box-and-whisker plot. There is so much good stat stuff in one place like the min/max, median, top/bottom performers, and outliers in the data set. I have found, however, that they are rarely used and some business end users find them hard to read.
2021 Week 27: Can you find the top and bottom performers? Read More »
Introduction This week we are going to do two things: look at alternative for the most common scatterplot I see in Tableau. use a very uncommon unsynchronized dual axis chart. First, the chart I always run into is this scatterplot of total sales and total profit by order. While we can see which orders were
2021 Week 26 – Tableau: Profitability with Dual Axis Charts Read More »
Introduction This week we’re going to reach back in the WOW catalog to week 24 of 2017. Do you remember where you were in your Tableau journey back then? Workout Wednesday was just kicking off with Andy Kriebel and Emma Whyte and in week 24, Emma presented this challenge to the community. Now, normally, I
#WOW2021 | Week 25 | Can You Make Spine Charts? Read More »
