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
Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by something I’d seen at work, and I thought it would be quite fun to see if I could reproduce in Tableau and if so, share as a challenge 🙂 I could, so here it is… can you include & exclude options with a custom control? Click to open …
#WOW2024 | Week 7 | Can you include and exclude options with a custom control? Read More
Introduction Happy New Year to you all! This is the start of #WorkoutWednesday’s 7th year – how amazing is that! Thank you to everybody for your continued support and engagement – it really helps keep this initiative going! For the first challenge of 2024, I’ve updated a visualisation I first built several years ago based …
#WOW2024 | Week 1 | Can you compare salaries to the median? Read More
Introduction As we continue Global Recognition Month here at WOW Towers, I’d like to introduce you to Norbert Borbás (@norbert_borbas), a data analyst from Hungary who has been on a mission this year to complete all the #WOW2023 challenges. He has received 4 Viz of the Day awards, and was recognised as ‘one to watch’ …
#WOW2023 | Week 47 | Can you create a Monthly Driver Analysis dashboard? Read More
Introduction So my week has rolled around again, and yet again the inspiration for this week comes from this viz by Sam Parsons – Man! That guy is good!! This week I’m asking you all to recreate a tabular display. It’s a common request from users to just ”show me all the numbers”, while we …
#WOW2023 | Week 41 | Can you build a flexible tabular display? Read More
Introduction I’m always on the lookout for ideas for challenges. Typically I’ll see something someone has done and want to know how they did it and whether I can craft it into a WOW challenge. When my colleague, Sam Parsons, demonstrated the concept of an interactive Viz In Tooltip (VIT) at Tableau Conference this year, …
#WOW2023 | Week 35 | Can you build an interactive Viz in Tooltip? Read More
Introduction For retro month at WOW Towers, I decided to go way back into the archive and focus on a challenge that was set by one of the original WOW coaches, Emma Whyte, in May 2017. The original challenge looked like the below image and provided a visual representation of the results of a blind …
#WOW2023 | Week 29 | Re-viz : Blind leading the blind Read More
Introduction A few weeks back, in week 11, I set this challenge to build a viz that allows the comparison of state sales. I indicated at the time that it was part 1, so this week is part 2 and we’re going to expand on the requirements. This type of scenario is very typical in a …
#WOW2023 | Week 23 | Can You Compare State Sales?- Part 2 Read More
