Introduction June is still music month, so for this week’s challenge we’re going to visualize music. Sometimes the simple visualizations tell the best stories. That is definitely the case for the “warming stripes” visualization which was used to show the change of global temperature over time. Using this as motivation, what if we created a […]
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this workout, we are visualizing data in a scatterplot in a bit of a non-traditional manner. This week marks 26 years since Ella Fitzgerald, the “Queen of Jazz”, passed away. So we are visualizing melodies to a few of her songs. My approach is a bit abstract – not quite sheet music but
2022 Week 24 | Scatterplot with custom marker Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week you are invited to build a horizon chart of the arctic ice extent–the amount of ice on the arctic ice cap. Data comes from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. In case you are not familiar with the horizon chart, a nice definition can be found here on Nathan Yao’s Flowing
2022 – WEEK 24: How is the arctic ice extent trending? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 23 of Workout Wednesday. This week is a special week as we have teamed up with Preppin Data to bring you a double challenge. Even then I think both challenges can be done in multiple platforms. You might also want to dabble in Power BI as they are also doing this double
#WOW2022 W23 | Tableau : Prep That and Build This! Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week is our annual collaboration with Preppin’ Data and the Tableau team! This week we’re visualizing Salesforce data – looking at current open opportunities, and trying to distinguish the dollar amount of opportunities due to close this month. This week’s challenge can be done in both Power BI and Tableau, and
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Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Even though May is Tableau Redo month, we took a quick break from the month’s theme last week to check out the amazing new Power BI feature, Field Parameters. The week before last, Kerry Kolosko worked her usual magic to recreate a Tableau dashboard, make sure to check it out here. This week we are
2022 Week 22 | Can you switch between KPIs? Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by one of the charts Ann Jackson used in her Advanced Speed Tips session with Lorna Brown. If you had a chance to watch live or virtually, you know it was an awesome session with some great tips and techniques (so if you haven’t seen it yet, you should
#WOW2022 Week 22: Can you maintain rank? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Fresh off the heels of #Data22, it’s already time for a new #WOW2022 Tableau challenge! One of my favorite charts is the small multiple. It can be used to show a lot of data in a compact view. Typically, small multiples are used to visualize a single measure with two discrete dimensions. And that’s
#WOW2022 | 21 | Let’s Build a Trellis Chart! Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction May is Tableau Redo month, so if you haven’t checked out last week’s report by Kerry Kolosko, make sure to check it out here. Most of the challenges this month have been Power BI remakes of previous Tableau Workout Wednesdays, but this week there was a really big release for the newest version of
2022 Week 21 | Power BI: Field Parameters Read More »
Power BI, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week is TABLEAU CONFERENCE week! The whole team is in Vegas ready to meet some of you in our live Workout Wednesday Meet-up! As luck would have it, I have the honour of preparing this week’s challenge. For those of you who will be working out with us in person, part of the
#WOW2022 | Week 20 | Monthly Sales vs Target Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday