Introduction Congratulations! We are now halfway through 2020 – it’s been a remarkable year, certainly full of twists, turns, and the unexpected. The purpose of this week’s challenge is to demonstrate how a metric compares to a goal. Like most goal data I encounter, the sales goals for this challenge don’t reside in the same …
Introduction I’ve got an exciting challenge for you this week! It involves collaboration with a peer of mine in the data community (Jami Delagrange, who you may recognize as an upcoming Community Month contributor) and also a challenge that involves working with COVID-19 data. This built-for-mobile dashboard was born out of seeking to understand the …
Introduction I hope everyone is continuing to stay safe and sane during this time. Our challenge for the week is to work with dates again! This one comes from a recent experience I had – the idea is pretty simple, you start your process by looking at more aggregated data, then you want to drill …
2020 Week 19: Can you build a dynamic date drilling chart? Read More
Introduction Hello Everyone! First – I want to say that I hope you and your loved ones are happy, healthy, and safe during this time. It’s amazing to think when I posted my last workout just 4 weeks ago, that the world (at least mine) looked completely different. I want you to know that you’re …
2020 Week 15: Can you create a chart with a dynamic week start? Read More
Introduction I’ve heard rumblings that the past few weeks have been a little difficult – so this week I’ve decided to keep it simple. The final visualization comes from something I encountered recently. I have a client that works with data that is very volume specific per day, so they wanted a way to quickly …
Introduction This week’s challenge is ripped directly from two different requests I had over the past week. The idea is simple, create a single visualization that displays performance in different metric categories and provide an overall health indicator. This concept may look very familiar for people accustomed to KPI indicators in Excel (or dare I …
Introduction Happy New Year! I’m excited to be back for yet another year of Workout Wednesday. This year we’ve expanded the team and made a commitment to the community to provide solution videos. We’ve also got some great collaborations lined up, and a few exciting enhancements to come (custom color palette anyone?)! To get the …
2020 Week 2: Can you build a beautiful and dynamic bar chart? Read More
How much information have you retained from Tableau Conference 2019? Are you still watching session videos (like I am?). This challenge is an homage to the amazing conference from this year. The challenge comes from something I encountered in a recent work situation. The end-user wanted to be able to automatically group together small contributing …
Week 48: Can you build a Bar Chart that automatically combines small contributions? Read More
Have you been participating in our challenges and want to take it to the next level? Perhaps you’ve never participated, but have always wanted to share analytics problems with others. Either way, now is your chance! We’ve seen firsthand the impact that being a part of Workout Wednesday has had on various community members, helping …
This week’s workout comes from a recent conversation I had. The goal was to figure out the best periods of sales (whether that was best days, best weeks, or best months) and to understand more context around those dates. Was the increase in sales driven by holidays or other external events, or perhaps it was …
Week 44: Can you build a Sales Calendar with top 3 highlighting? Read More
