Introduction The World Cup is in North America this month, and I saw a post showing the locations of national team training sites along with venues where games are being held, and the distance they were each travelling. I was curious if I could build something similar, and I was similarly curious how much each […]
#WOW2026 | Week 24 | Can you measure and visualize travel distance? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Hello #WOW enthusiasts, I’m Hannah, a data analyst consultant at The Information Lab. This week’s challenge is inspired by a client project I did recently, where I was trying to recreate a specific visual from a different software. I thought I could save you the headache if this kind of problem ever crossed your
#WOW2024 W43: Can you show total sales and filtered sales in the same view? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction One of the perks of my job is that I get to help colleagues solve puzzles that clients throw at them. This is where this came from. Well in fact – the original idea came from a Power BI report, and I wanted to prove it was doable in Tableau. Click to open in
Introduction While reviewing recent work I’ve done in preparation for this week’s challenge, I came across a tile map with individual area charts by state that we use to monitor subscriptions, and thought it would be a fun one. As I dug into it, I realized it was inspired by Luke’s challenge in 2020 Week
#WOW2024 | Week 8 | Can you create an area chart tile map? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week I wanted an easier challenge in the lead up to the Christmas Holidays. So what better way than doing some Level of Detail calculations. I want you to be able to find out how many quarters it took for a customer to make their second purchase Click to open in Tableau Public
2023 W49: Can you find how many quarters it took for a customer to order again? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week’s challenge looks at products in Tableau’s superstore dataset. In this challenge you will have to find the products that have been profitable in each of the four years in this dataset. That means profitable in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Once you have identified successful products (the consistently profitable products) then you
2022 – Week 4: How have successful products performed? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction The ability to efficiently find the proverbial needle in a haystack is worth its weight in gold. How many times has a key stakeholder asked you to give them a shortlist of products (insert the focus of your analysis) to focus on for business improvement/optimization opportunities…and they’ve asked you to get back to them
2021 Week 31: Can You Find the Needle in the Haystack? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
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 »
community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
This week you need to build this side-by-side bar chart. There are a couple of tricks but you should be able to do this in under 30 minutes (for real!). There are at least 4 ways to solve this problem. There are also two problems an intermediate and an advanced. Challenge – Intermediate Click image
2019 Week 24: Can you build a side-by-side bar chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
A few weeks ago I had this problem: I needed to create a dynamic table that showed the last 12 full months of sales for a particular channel/category of the business but I also needed to show the month-over-month and year-over-year totals. I didn’t know how to do it right away so I asked the
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday