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2021 Week 1: Can You Find the Variance Along the Line?

Introduction For the longest time, I avoided table calculations as much as I could because I thought they were overly complicated (compute using…relative to…sort by…nested…ughhhh) especially when I had LODs in my back pocket.  But, over time, I’ve made my peace with them (dare I say, a fan now) as I recognized how powerful they …

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2021 Week 1 | Power BI: Connecting To & Modeling Data

Introduction Hey all! Thank you so much for checking out the new Power BI edition of #WorkoutWednesday. Although the Tableau version of #WorkoutWednesday has been going on for several years, this is our first attempt at creating a similar community with Power BI. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, we will release a challenge every …

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2020 Week 53: Can you build with containers?

Introduction Brad Werner is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge.  Here are all the details in Brad’s own words: I have a confession. When I first started using Tableau, I was a strict advocate for #TeamFloating. Yes, I used to float ALL objects on my Tableau dashboards. I would decide on a dashboard layout …

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2020 Week 50: Can you highlight profits with measure names?

Introduction This week we are throwing it back to using measure names and measure values. There are two levels to this challenge:  Level 1 Showing the visualization as is, but without the circles around the white dots in each line Level 2 Adding a ring around the white dots on the viz. There is no …

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2020 Week 49: Can you toggle between AND & OR filtering logic?

Introduction Sam Epley (100% completion club #WOW2020) is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge.  Here are all the details in Sam’s own words: Several months ago, I was working with a client who wanted to provide their end user with some pretty clever functionality I’d never seen before. They wanted their user to be …

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2020 Week 48: Can you create a Variable Width Bar Chart?

Introduction Jami Delagrange is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge.  Here are all the details in Jami’s own words: Similar to Ann’s experience with the Clustered Histogram (last week’s challenge), I had an idea recently where I knew how to do the individual parts and wasn’t sure how to put them together. I knew how …

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2020 Week 46: Can you build a Premier League table?

Introduction I was scrolling thru my Twitter timeline and noticed a comment by fellow Zen Master Simon Beaumont to #MakeoverMonday co-lead Charlie Hutcheson regarding tables, specifically the kind to track teams and the results of matches in the English Premier League (which are a group of the highest level teams that play football/soccer in England). …

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