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2020 Week 26: How does the company perform in the fiscal year?

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Introduction Calendar years run from January 1st until December 31st, but an organization’s fiscal year might start in a different month. In this week’s challenge, a company’s fiscal year runs from October 1st through September 31st. Let’s see how this company performs. Configure your workbook as follows:  Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard […]

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2020 Week 24: Can you compare a 3-day vs. 14-day moving average and describe the latest trend?

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Introduction I’ve got an exciting challenge for you this week!  It involves collaboration with a peer of mine in the data community (Jami Delagrange, who you may recognize as an upcoming Community Month contributor) and also a challenge that involves working with COVID-19 data. This built-for-mobile dashboard was born out of seeking to understand the

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2020 Week 23: Can you excel at bar charts?

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Introduction This week’s challenge is relatively straight-foward: remake a bar chart to look like a Microsoft Excel bar chart. The key to this chart is the extra whitespace between months. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 900px by 500px Show sales by month for each of the four years. Each bar should

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2020 Week 22: Profitability spotlight – is your budget recovered?

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Introduction This week’s goal is to create a bi-dimensional chart (alternative parallel chart) that reveals if your budget has recovered or not. Parallel Coordinates represent multi-dimensional data across a set of vertical axis- different measures have different scales -, for this week’s challenge you will have to figure out how to show 2 different measures

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2020 Week 21: Can you design for an automatic phone layout?

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Introduction Creating the perfect dashboard requires time and patience, do we put the same amount of effort into creating dashboards ready made for mobile. This weeks shows how best to build a desktop dashboard for the automatic mobile layout. As mentioned by Bridget Cogley. Tableau’s automatic phone layout follows the a-z pattern. So top left

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2020 Week 20: How much do these states contribute to the total?

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Introduction What’s up #WOWzers! Have you heard the news? Tableau just release a feature-packed release with v2020.2. So many cool new features to try out and the #WOW2020 enjoyed my new feature challenge so much last time, they invited me back to do a challenge for this release too! One new feature that I’d been looking

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2020 Week 19: Can you build a dynamic date drilling chart?

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Introduction I hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and sane during this time. Our challenge for the week is to work with dates again!  This one comes from a recent experience I had – the idea is pretty simple, you start your process by looking at more aggregated data, then you want to drill

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2020 Week 18: Which products were most profitable?

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Introduction Sometimes you want to make fun charts, but life gives you tables. This challenge is another real-life challenge I’ve encountered through Dr. Alicia Bembenek: show a table, but only highlight a subset of the products. An innocent challenge that is actually more difficult than it first appears. –LS. Be sure to check out the

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