This week’s workout comes from a special guest, former Iron Viz champion Klaus Schulte! Klaus has come up with a great challenge for all of you; he and I (Curtis) will be your coaches this week. Thank you Klaus! Step line charts have been introduced with Tableau’s 2018.1 release and it’s really hard to remember […]
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
This week, alongside WorkoutWednesday we have a new collaboration, which gives you a chance to try out another community project, #PreppinData. PreppinData is a like workoutwednesday but with Tableau Prep Builder. Each week they give you a messy data set, some requirements and a finished data set, you then have to use Tableau Prep Builder
If your schedule is anything like mine, then you’re probably enjoying the summer months – using vacation time, nicer weather, summer holidays, and a generally more relaxed schedule. To help keep that vibe going, this week I’m challenging you to a very straightforward build. This is an extremely simplified version of something I recently built
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Last week we were putting together a deck for an executive team and we wanted to show the seasonality of data while still showing the overall average. In our time crunch we came up with our challenge for this week!p Challenge – Intermediate Click image to view on Tableau Public Requirements – Intermediate Format: 900px
2019 Week 29: Which months do we see a higher number of orders? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
I recently came across a material design style guide for data visualization, and wanted to try some of the concepts. Google has many design guides based on their material design concept, but none related to data visualization until just recently. These style guides are great for getting new ideas, just make sure you don’t get
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
How often do you think about scale? Making sure my dashboards scale over time is one of my top priorities whenever I start a new project, so this week’s Workout Wednesday is going to be focused on building a solution that will scale combined with standard KPI views. I’ve been asked to build KPI views
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Last week I was lucky enough to spend some time in Berlin attending Tableau Conference Europe. Coming off the heels of the conference I was struck by the three components the Tableau team was sharing in terms of new features and development. They shared components focused on 1) Making Analytics for Everyone 2) Analytics at
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
This week we are live at TCE, and we are focusing on some new features. Requirements Format: 800px by 800px Create KPI stats which include Sales, Profit, Profit Ratio, Discount and Quantity for the latest year Create a YoY change from the latest year to the previous year, with an up down arrow depending on
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
This week you need to build this side-by-side bar chart. There are a couple of tricks but you should be able to do this in under 30 minutes (for real!). There are at least 4 ways to solve this problem. There are also two problems an intermediate and an advanced. Challenge – Intermediate Click image
2019 Week 24: Can you build a side-by-side bar chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
What do you do when you have limited real estate? What do you do when vanilla Tableau just isn’t going to cut it? This week’s workout should be a quick exercise designed to give you a few strategies that save on real estate, enable simple interactivity, and promote consistent design throughout your dashboards. This one
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday