Introduction Happy New Year everyone, my turn comes round awfully quickly these days. As it’s still the start of 2026, I didn’t want to go too hard too quick. Hopefully this isn’t too bad. We are flexing our Table Calc, Date and Order of Operations skills in this challenge. Have fun! Click to open in […]
#WOW2026 | Week 4 | Can you create a dynamic moving average? Read More »
Introduction This week, I wanted to highlight Sigma’s actions once again, as we got a new update a last week: The ability to change date controls via actions! Pairing this new feature with the ‘Conditions’ beta feature in actions, we can create more user-friendly date filtering with much less hassle. Stay up to date on changes to
2024 Week 43 | Sigma: Can you create a segmented date control? Read More »
Introduction This is the most common chart I made in Tableau so I thought it would be fitting to share with all of you. Enjoy! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard size: 400 x 200 1 worksheet Show the sales from the most recent full month. Show the percent change from the same month
2023 Week 50: Can you build this simple KPI? Read More »
Introduction I joined the Workout Wednesday crew in 2018. Since then I’ve provided–from what I can count–64 challenges. And I’ve never been short of real-life challenges. In my job, I’ve encountered so many problems that I could take apart and provide to the community without exposing who my customers were at the time. Many of
2023 Week 38: Can you build a drunken tree chart? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to community month for 2023. Each year since 2018 we’ve hosted a community month–where we invite different people from the Tableau Community. This year I wanted to invite someone who has been a prolific supporter of the data visualization community but hasn’t been recognized by Tableau as an Ambassador or Visionary for his
2023 Week 14: How short are baseball games in 2023? Read More »
Introduction This week’s challenge was derived from a project that I helped some colleagues with. My colleagues were working on a client project for a travel company. They wanted to be able to compare a selected “Event Date” with an average travel day. The aim was to see if and how travel patterns might be
#WOW2022 | Week 45 | Average Patient Waittimes Read More »
Introduction I’ve been wanting to create this challenge for some time, so I’m really glad to finally be releasing it. This challenge was inspired by some work I did last year where a client wanted to be able to visualize the number of hours that their team had spent working on different projects. What made
#WOW2022 | Week 30 | Dynamic Dates in a Heatmap Read More »
Introduction This week we are going to look at hospital admission rates. This data source comes from The Medical Stays dashboard on the Tableau Exchange. This particular challenge is more focused on working with time than it is working with medical data. In this challenge you need to group time into 15 minute increments throughout
2022 Week 9: How many patients were admitted every 15 minutes? Read More »
Introduction I came across an interesting challenge. When comparing data, Tableau automatically compares to the same date on the prior month/year etc. But what if you want to compare to the same DAY. For example, Tuesday 18th May 2021, would compare to Tuesday 19th May 2020 for the previous year, and Tuesday 20th April for
2021 Week 20 | Tableau: Can you compare Same Day to a Selected Date? Read More »
Introduction Jami Delagrange is responsible for this week’s Community Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Jami’s own words: A few months ago, I was working with conference registration data and the event team asked the question, “can we look at daily and weekly registrations in the same view?” The chart below is
2020 Week 38: Can you Visualize Daily and Weekly Ticket Sales in the Same View? Read More »
