Workout Wednesday

August Community Submission Month Welcome to community submission month. For all 5 of those weeks we’ll have our favorite community submissions as challenges. FYI: You can still submit here.     Community Submission Challenge #2: Rosario Irasema Gauna González Our second community challenge comes from Rosario Irasema Gauna González. Rosario is located in Monterrey, Nuevo

This week’s workout is all about finding signals or patterns in data, specifically using run charts (aka line charts).  Variance over time is one of the most common ways to understand a process and often when we’re visualizing the data we use data summarization tools like the mean (average) or median to help aid in

This Week’s Challenge requires some data modelling, but allows for additional UX features not natively available in the product. Requirements Dashboard size is 600 x 600 The Scatter Plot has Sales by Profit for each Category and Year When a user hovers over any category, all years for the category will be connected by a

For this week’s workout I’ve decided to keep things simple and focus on creating one powerful alternative visualization for comparison over time.  I think we all tend to get stuck in a bar chart rut and struggle to find ways to spice things up.  I tend to do this a lot, especially when I am

It seems lately I have been giving the easy challenges, so I wanted to spice it up with something harder. This week we are going to deal with a new challenge that requires some thinking on Dashboard Actions and Data Modelling. The goal of this challenge is to open up how we think about Tableau

This week I’m taking Workout Wednesday to the next level by including Tableau Prep in the equation!  If you don’t have Tableau Prep, go get the 30 day trial from here. Prep was released just over a month ago, so it’s the perfect opportunity for us to ensure we’re strengthening our visualization skills and including