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
Introduction In this week’s challenge, we’re going to recreate a very small part of Kathryn McCrindle’s (Linked In / X ) #TC25 Iron Viz. Kathryn is a colleague of mine at Biztory, and made it through to the Iron Viz final at TC25 in San Diego. In 20 minutes, she built this impressive suite of …
Introduction For this week’s challenge, I’m showcasing a variety of features using data based on the English Premier League once again. Measure switching is the primary focus for this challenge, which is something many #WOW challenges have used in the past. But you may be new to the #WOW project this year, so it’s always …
Introduction For this week’s challenge, we’re looking at data from the English Premier League (EPL) again ( this may well be a theme for me this year 🙂 ). The main focus for this challenge is ranking; specifically ranking based on multiple measures. In the EPL, as I’m sure there are with other sports, teams …
#WOW2025 | Week 10 | Can you rank by multiple measures? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge has 3 levels which I hope means there’s something for everyone – whether you’re new to Tableau and #WorkoutWednesday or a seasoned veteran 😉 If I’ve implemented things correctly, it should be possible to simply build on from the Beginner Level requirements without having to rework anything too much to get …
Introduction We’re going back to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this week. I loved them and built my own version of the medal table that I’d been looking at constantly throughout the 2 weeks based off of the BBC (UK) mobile app. I added the ability to click and see what medals were won each …
#WOW2024 | WEEK 37 | What medals did each country win each day? Read More
Introduction The 33rd Summer Olympic Games started in Paris last week, so we have an Olympic themed challenge this week, and I hope this is a fun one. When researching ideas, I saw this viz on my colleague, James Newton’s (Twitter|X / Linked In ), Tableau Public profile and thought it would be good fun to …
#WOW2024 | Week 31 | How do you compare against the world’s best 100m runners? Read More
Introduction For this week’s challenge I want to see if you can provide users with the flexibility to choose how they want to display a particular metric – in this case we’re looking at Headcount data, and how it is distributed across different employee attributes. Depending on the question being asked, a particular layout might …
Introduction So this week follows on from my previous challenge in week 13 here. Feel free to either recreate completely from scratch or use my/your own original solution to build on (my solution for week 13 is here and my solution guide is here). Having built a segmented bar chart, we are now going to …
#WOW2024 | Week 19 | Can you expand this segmented bar chart? Read More
Introduction I’m always on the lookout for inspiration to share in a #WorkoutWednesday challenge, and Sam Parson’s recent movie viz provided that for this week. Sam displayed the total revenue for the top 50 movie franchises, directly alongside a stacked bar depicting the revenue for each individual movie in that franchise. There is also a …
#WOW2024 | Week 13 | Can you build this segmented bar chart? Read More
