Introduction Welcome to Week Forty-Eight! This week, I am heavily focused on my Thanksgiving preparations, so naturally, we will be taking our Workout Wednesday to the kitchen. I asked Chat GPT to generate us a dataset involving popular Thanksgiving dishes by state. We’re going to use that to utilize some newer features, like a conditional …
2024 Week 48 | Sigma: Can you map these Thanksgiving Dishes? Read More
Introduction I felt like I was seeing more news about food recalls lately, and I did the thing any good data-minded individual would do: pulled down data from the FDA to see if what I’m feeling is backed up by data. When I pulled the data down from, I realized there was still a lot …
Introduction This week’s visualization is inspired by the concept of rules – understanding them and knowing how to bend them (but never break them!) At a high level, Power BI visualizations are rendered using a combination of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in a web browser. By learning the foundational aspects of various data visualization tools, …
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by a suggestion that I made to a colleague when he faced the problem of having a small space to work with, but wanting to give the end user the ability to drill-down a bit deeper. His idea was to only show the Top 5 within a selected Sub-Category. …
#WOW2024 | Week 47 | Top 5 Product Sales vs Other Products Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week 46! This week we pretend to be a streaming service, trying to see which of our 3 new shows are doing well with the viewer base. Funnel charts will be our main focus here, but feel free to play around with the sample data to find other key insights! The formatting …
2024 Week 46 | Sigma: Can you create a Funnel Chart? Read More
Introduction Hey everyone! This week’s Workout Wednesday focuses on creating clear, actionable patient demographic visuals using a Sankey, a KPI, and two bar charts—binned and unbinned. Here’s the setup: the Sankey chart helps us map distribution, while the KPI delivers an at-a-glance view of a key metric to ground the analysis. With the bar charts, …
2024 Week 45 | Sigma: Can you create these patient demographic visuals? Read More
Introduction Utilising the dataset from a previous challenge (week 43), this week we are going to build a bubble likert chart. Likerts are usually ordered categorical data, and often it does not make sense to convert categories to a numerical score to find averages. Sometimes, likerts can be treated as interval data. https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/likert-scale/. For the …
Introduction This week we are live at DataFam Europe in London and we have paired up with Preppin Data to make sure our data is in the best format ready to go for building our visualisation. If you want to take part in the PreppinData challenge, you can find it here. As we are in …
Introduction This month we hold Global Community Weeks! We’ll feature guest coaches from around the world in the coming weeks. I’m excited and honored to introduce Tomoki Goda (@padawan_viz) from Japan! Tomoki is relatively new to Tableau but is strongly passionate about Tableau community activities. He is one of the co-hosts of a popular Japan …
#WOW2024 | Week 45 | Can You Switch A Dashboard Theme? Read More
Introduction A bump chart shows changes in rank over time. This week, inspired by a visual from Statista Charts, we are making a bump chart of the countries with the highest GDP in 3 selected years. The example below uses a ribbon chart core visual to create the bump chart, but you are welcome to use …
