Introduction For this week’s challenge, I was inspired by this viz by Ojoswi Basu. I was intrigued by how the shaded bar chart had been built, and wanted to have a go myself, which in turn meant I’d ask everyone else to have a go too 🙂 This is a map layers challenge, so a […]
#WOW2026 | Week 44 | Can you use map layers to build this bar chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction What I love most about #WorkoutWednesday challenges is learning tips and techniques that I can re-use over and over again in my dashboard builds. This week, I’m showcasing a tip that had many of us in the community completely stunned – the ability to format numbers to different order of magnitudes without the need
#WOW2026 | Week 37 | Can you format your numbers to the right ‘scale’? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this week’s challenge, I’m asking you to build a viz I put together that visualises the the tennis career of the current men’s world #1 and 2026 Wimbledon champion, Jannik Sinner. There’s a fair amount going on, so I appreciate this may take a while to completely replicate. If time is short, the
#WOW2026 | Week 30 | Can you build a ladder chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction When browsing around for inspiration for this week’s challenge, I came across this stem & leaf Power BI WOW challenge by Meagan Longoria, which in turn was inspired by a Tableau #WOW challenge set by Yusuke in 2024. So I thought it would be fun to go ‘full circle’ and see if I could
#WOW2026 | Week 23 | Can you create a double-sided multi-row Stem-and-Leaf Plot? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this week’s community challenge, I am drawing inspiration from this blog post by fellow Ambassador and new Visionary, Johan de Groot. I’ve had radar charts on my back-burner for some time, but never got round to putting out as a challenge, as felt they may seem ‘too fiddly’. But Johan shared a ‘map
#WOW2026 | Week 16 | Can you build a radar chart with map layers? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we’re going to build out a parallel coordinates chart – a type of visualisation used to display and compare multiple numerical measures. My daughter, Mia, is an academy level footballer and wears a stats vest in matches and training to capture lots of data about her performance. I’d been meaning to try
#WOW2026 | Week 9 | Can you build a parallel coordinates chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome back to #WOW2026! Thank you all for your continued support, and for bearing with us while we carried out some maintenance on the website. For the first challenge of the year, I’m asking you to recreate a technique that was originally introduced way back in 2010, and re-shared during a ‘tips and tricks’
#WOW2026 | Week 2 | Can you create a fake Viz in Tooltip? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Some time ago the brilliant Sam Parsons, developed a “Satellite” or “Spiral” Chart as an alternative way to visualise a donut that exceeded 100%.https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sparsonsdataviz/viz/SpiralingSatelliteCharts/SpiralingSatelliteCharts. As with many things Sam comes up with, I always want to see if I can build it, and once again it’s a great excuse for a #WOW challenge. Back
Introduction Sometime ago, I came across this post by Sarah Pallett ( X | LinkedIn ) introducing the idea of L-Shaped bar charts… … and I thought it would make a perfect WOW challenge (as it gave me an excuse to build a version myself). Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Size 1000 x
#WOW2025 | Week 38 | Can you build an L-Shaped bar chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I often use the #datafam community as inspiration for my #WOW challenges, as it gives me the perfect opportunity to try out a particular technique or visualisation style, which I hope you all then benefit from too 🙂 This week’s challenge was inspired by this blog post by the Flerlage Twins, which in turn
#WOW2025 | Week 31 | Can you build an alternative to a stacked bar chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday