My personal favorite Workout Wednesday challenges are those that come straight from the workplace, this is one of those weeks. Just recently I was asked to produce a very similar visualization, but with the affordance of my good friend Alteryx. For this challenge, all of the data prep has to be done in Tableau, without […]
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
This weeks Workout Wednesday, has lots of hidden tricks and tips inside. But I want you to mainly focus on a specific part. Sorting in Tableau can be a bit of a pain, it has gotten much better with nested sorting. But this challenge allows you to sort A – Z, Z – A, Profit
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
This week’s challenge is plucked directly from #IronQuest. If you’re not aware of what #IronQuest is, it’s a monthly challenge during the off season of Tableau Public’s Iron Viz feeder contest. It’s run by Sarah Bartlett and each month a different theme is chosen. Participants are allowed to submit for feedback (the idea is to
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
When I started Workout Wednesday I made a list of potential challenges. This challenge was the second challenge I wrote down. After more than 20 challenges I’ve finally gotten around to sharing it! Challenge Click to view on Tableau Public Requirements Format: 1000px by 600px Create a visualization with bar charts that show total sales,
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
For this week’s workout, we look at one of my favorite chart types, the pareto. I love the pareto chart as a data exploration resource, and also as a powerful analytic resource. If you aren’t familiar with the pareto, the purpose is to see what % of x, makes up what % of y, with
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Valentine’s Day is officially tomorrow. This data set looks at percentage of people buying a particular gift. This week I wanted to focus in on building a few things; using the button functionality, sheet swapping and finally a radar chart (because why not). Many Many people have been waiting for the button functionality and I
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Those of you who know me well know that I like to create visualizations that include both detail and aggregate in the same view. I have a particular interest in showing how the smaller components contribute to the overall. When there’s one major chart on a dashboard I think it works out particularly well –
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
I recently put together this chart for work. I spent more time making it amazing than I am willing to admit, this is mostly due to the amount of formatting I did. I thought I’d make a formatting challenge this week! Challenge Click to view on Tableau Public Requirements Format: 540px by 800px Create a
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Hello and welcome to week 4 of Workout Wednesday 2019, and my first contribution as an official team member! This week’s challenge should be on the easier side, and forces us to think a little bit about data prep, before we get to producing our Workout Wednesday visualization. I was recently challenged at work to
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
I am super happy that I have joined the team for Workout Wednesday and I am ready to set you some challenges. Sometimes people struggle using text only files. This week’s challenge will, hopefully, give you some ideas on how to use text only files. Some of you may know that I am a big Rugby
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday