July 2018

Week 31: Dynamic Color Legend

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 #1: Sean Miller Our first community challenge comes from Sean Miller. Sean is located in Kansas City, Missouri in the United […]

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Tableau, Workout Wednesday

Week 30: Statistical Signals in Superstore Sales

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

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Tableau, Workout Wednesday

Week 27: How do current year sales compare to previous?

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

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Tableau, Workout Wednesday