Introduction A few weeks ago I saw this Twitter poll (and the ensuing discussion) about Team Tiled vs Team Floating and I noted that I am neither. Rather, I am Team Container. Using Containers in dashboards makes positioning and sizing everything in your dashboard a piece of cake, once you have mastered how they work. …
#WOW2023 | Week 12 | Can you build a dashboard using containers? Read More
Introduction Brad Werner is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Brad’s own words: I have a confession. When I first started using Tableau, I was a strict advocate for #TeamFloating. Yes, I used to float ALL objects on my Tableau dashboards. I would decide on a dashboard layout …
Ok, this week is all about working with Containers. Now that we have the ability to control inner/outer padding on Dashboard objects, as well as color, we can really make our dashboards shine without having to float everything. Note on the week, the data/charts don’t really matter, I honestly just threw some on the dashboard. …
Introduction This week we will be expanding on a previous post by Preena in week 34. If you did not already complete the wk 34 lesson, you will want to create the Design Style Guide Templated App in your dev org. This prebuilt app offers valuable insights to best design principles and UX features. Of …
2023 Week 44 | Reusable Components, Designer and Themes Read More
Introduction This July we bring you another month of challenges with a theme: We are going RETRO!Each coach will be going back through the WorkoutWednesday archives and re-vizzing a challenge from the past. It may be one of their favourite challenges, or maybe there’s a much easier way to do …
Introduction This week we are exploring the Component widget. Essentially it is a container with pages that allows you to quickly create and reuse dynamic areas of a dashboard! Components solve 2 main use cases: Reusability & maintainability (the components you create in this challenge will be used again in a future challenge!) Easily (through …
Introduction There are a lot of visualisation common practises that are less than ideal. One of those is the funnel chart. I think the analogy works well, however a lot of implementations are misleading at best. Unfortunately the default funnel chart in CRMA belongs in that category. As the value is only encoded in the …
Introduction This week we will continue working on our dashboard from last week. We’ll improve the design a little bit and work on the interactivity to provide more information and guide the user through the dashboard. Requirements Make the header a solid white box with a a solid line below (same colour as the first …
Introduction This week the challenge focuses on formatting and your ability to use containers. The goal is to create a near pixel perfect copy of the original. Focus on your use of containers along the way. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1100px by 850 px 9 sheets About 7 vertical containers …
Introduction Your challenge this week is to create a Risk Matrix with some supporting visuals. We decided to keep the project management theme going this week. If you did not do last week’s challenge, I highly recommend you checkout Kerry’s Gantt Chart challenge, here. For this challenge, I looked at a lot of possible ways to create a …
