Heads up: we are at Tableau Conference and we’ll be delayed on checking Twitter. Also Luke will attempt to live stream via Twitter. Challenge This week we take Workout Wednesday live at Tableau Conference. Click to view on Tableau Public Requirements Create a map and color the overall top, top 5, bottom, bottom 5 states […]
Week 43: Where should we focus our sales effort? #TC18 Edition Read More »
Getting a little bit tricky this week, mostly because I won’t be at TC this year….. 🙁 This week we are going to do some radial mapping in Tableau. While extensions might replace this trick, I think it’s still useful when analyzing locations within N miles of a target location. Requirements This is a tricky
Week 42: Radial Mapping Read More »
This week’s workout is designed for the end user looking for immediate insight – think of an executive stakeholder or someone more drawn to quickly getting numbers and results. These folks don’t necessarily have the time to look deeper into the details, but are still craving data in context. To satisfy their requests you’ll be
Week 41: Top & Bottom Highlights Read More »
Challenge This week you are building something that looks like a text table. But there are a few twists, including the fact you cannot use text as a mark type. click to view on Tableau Public Requirements Use the shape mark type. Do not create a custom mark type that is transparent. Round sales
Week 40: Where are Sub-Category Sales Down? Read More »
Hello Again! This week I am back with a fairly simple challenge, but one that has a few (I believe) useful tricks that could help spice up your next viz. The tricks used here are geared toward design, but have additional benefits. Requirements: Dashboard size: 1000 x 800 Create a Parameters for metrics Sales|Profit|Quantity Create
WEEK 39: VERTICAL LABEL AND 3 MARKS Read More »
One of my absolute favorite things about Tableau is that not only is it a fantastic data display tool, but it is amazing at data exploration and discovery. While you’re in the flow of analysis there are tons of built in features that provide you feedback, awareness, and insight into your data. Everything from displaying
Week 38: Discovery Dashboard Read More »
We’re working on providing different solutions for the rest of the year. While it’s not a guarantee that we’ll have one every week, we want to dispel any myths around the difficulty of the problems. Last week Curtis made a video on how he created the solution. He’s going to do this every week. Curtis
Solution: Paying The President Read More »
Challenge This week we’ve partnered with Makeover Monday to examine potential conflict of interest between President Trump’s personal holdings and his campaign staff and government officials using data from Propublica. We’ll also be giving you a few formulas so you can focus on the important parts of the challenge: “stacking” the squares and placing the
Week 37: Recreating Paying the President Read More »
Hello again everyone! This week we are looking to add Reference Bands to our Scatter Plots in order to “group” together like items. Looking at NBA Players Total Games and Points spread. Requirements: Dashboard size 920 x 825 Players are grouped into 5 bins by Avg Points per Game 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29 and 30-34+
Week 36: Scatter Plot Reference Bands Read More »
We’re wrapping up our month of Community submissions with a workout submitted by Zen Master Neil Richards. A great way to end an awesome month facilitated by so many members of the Workout Wednesday community. We’ve definitely been inspired and challenged by your contributions and impressed with the support you’ve given to those completing your
Week 35: Superstore Small Multiples Read More »
