Introduction Hello everyone, I’m very happy to be back for another year of Workout Wednesday! For my first challenge, I wanted to focus on something that every Tableau learner will encouter: Table Calculations and Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations, and what is the difference between them? Well, sometimes only one of these types of calculations […]
#WOW2026 | Week 7 | Exploring Table Calcs vs LODs Read More »
Introduction The Olympics continue this week, so we’re continuing with an Olympic theme this week as well. When thinking about a challenge, a Makeover Monday I did in 2018 came to mind (which was inspired by this viz by Rody Zakovich). But that one was the Winter Olympics, so we’re going to build a version
#WOW2024 | Week 32 | Can you compare Olympic medalist age to a user’s age? Read More »
Introduction This week’s challenge is focused on Level of Detail (LOD) calculations. We could probably build this chart using Table Calculations, but we’re not going to. Deliberate practice with some basic LODs. This also can be the basis for some cohort analysis, aligning various groups from different time periods on the same starting point. And
#WOW2022 Week 37: Can you create a common starting point? Read More »
The Fixed LOD gets a lot of the spotlight in tableau but we shouldn’t forget about its cousins INCLUDE & EXCLUDE. Have a go at this challenge to practice use those functions.
Week 12: Can you do Comparative Quantity Analysis? Read More »
