Month: February 2021

2021 Week 8 | Power BI: SWITCH()ing Measures

Introduction Thanks to everyone who has ben participating in #WorkoutWednesday – Power BI edition. This week we are going to be diving into switching metrics in your reports using SWITCH() and a slicer. This method can be especially useful when designing reports for mobile use. Toggling between metrics allows you to save real estate on …

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2020 Week 7 | Tableau : Can you use Dashboard Extensions?

Introduction Features and functionality on using Tableau and Tableau Public are ever growing. I believe we as WOW have never done this particular object before. Did you know that Tableau has an Extension Gallery? But also did you know that some of the extensions work on Tableau Public?  I never thought about using Extensions on …

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2021 Week 6 | Tableau: Can you build a Fancy Text Table?

Introduction This month I’ve decided to focus on something you’ve rarely ever seen from me – a good old fashioned text table.  This challenge should be straightforward for users of all levels. And of course since I try to avoid plain text tables, this one has some fancy formatting thrown in for good measure. There …

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#WOW2021 W05: Can You Predict the Future?

Introduction For this week’s challenge, we wanted to hit two birds with one stone: try out a new feature from the Tableau 2020.4 and celebrate Black History Month with an interesting dataset on Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Predictions, table calculations, and parameter actions…oh my!  Consider this a feature sampler, building on some previous …

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