Donna Coles – Workout Wednesday

#WOW2025 | Week 44 | Can you build a satellite chart to represent values exceeding 100%?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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#WOW2025 | Week 38 | Can you build an L-Shaped bar chart?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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#WOW2025 | Week 31 | Can you build an alternative to a stacked bar chart?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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#WOW2025 | WEEK 24 | Can you Iron Viz?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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#WOW2025 | WEEK 17 | Can you switch measures?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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#WOW2025 | Week 10 | Can you rank by multiple measures?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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#WOW2025 | Week 3 | How are EPL Football Teams performing this season compared to previous seasons?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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#WOW2024 | WEEK 37 | What medals did each country win each day?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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#WOW2024 | Week 31 | How do you compare against the world’s best 100m runners?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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#WOW2024 | Week 24 | Can you visualise headcount distribution in multiple ways on a single sheet?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / By Donna Coles

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 …

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