Workout Wednesday

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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+

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

This week we’re visualizing conflict data provided by ACLED.  ACLED, which stands for Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, is a “disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project.”  You’ll notice throughout the Tableau Community this week that there are several partner projects going on – all designed to provide awareness on ACLED’s cause.