Workout Wednesday

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

Ohhhh it’s time for some shiny new features! Parameter actions dropped last week and what a hit they have been! People are republishing their work using the new feature! So I hope you’ve had time to practice them a little bit because we’re about to hit the ground running with them! Click to Interact Requirements