Introduction I have a confession to make…I like stacked bar charts. Someone once referred to them as rectangular pie charts, which stung a little bit – so I’ve kept my affinity quiet. Stacked bar charts get a bad rap because it can be hard to compare the different components – in fact the only one […]
2021 W40 | Tableau: Can You Make Stacked Bar Charts Easier to Compare? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge is by Will Perkins About Will: Will has been actively involved with the external Tableau Community over the past 3 years. He has spoken at Tableau Fringe Fests, multiple TUGs, and mentored various individuals in one-off questions or more long term instances. At work, he has helped build an internal global
Introduction This weeks community challenge is by Donna Coles. When I was approached by the #WOW crew to provide a guest challenge, I was a little unsure as to what I could do. I primarily work as a Tableau Server admin, so rarely have a need to build dashboards (which is why I like to do the
2021 Week 36 | Tableau: When do extracts run during the day? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction September 2021 is community month. Every year since 2018 we’ve invited individuals to share challenges with the community. This year we’ll have some amazing challenges from the Tableau and Power BI communities. But before we get there I’ll be sharing the following challenge: We’ll make a modified dot plot comparing sales for the current
2021 Week 35 – How Much Change Has Occurred? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Uncategorized, Workout Wednesday
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 »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday