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#WOW2025 | Week 36 | Can You Build a Color-Coded Filter?

Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by yet another Guest Coach and active member of the Tableau and Workout Wednesday communities. Presenting, Giulio D’Errico! Giulio proposed this challenge to me several weeks ago and we have worked together to build out his idea. This challenge applies some great fundamental skills, and then has …

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#WOW2025 | Week 29 | Competitor Comparison

Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by a question from a colleague. They were looking for ideas for how to manage a chart with multiple lines and mulitple metrics. My colleague started with the idea of highlighting a single line in each chart, to show how the company compared to its competitors – a simple …

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#WOW2025 | Week 22 | Data Normalization Methods

Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by Robbin Vernooij & Lorna Brown’s talk from Tableau Conference this year (TC25) titled ‘Taming the Beast: Normalization Strategies in Tableau’ Normalization allows us to examine the relative importance of values that may be on completely different scales. A common example of where we use normalization is when we …

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#WOW2025 | Week 15 | Community Month: Anna Clara Gatti

Introduction It’s Community Month once again, which means we have a series of guest coaches creating challenges for you over the next few weeks. This week’s challenge creator is relatively new to Workout Wednesday, but is a prominent member of the wider Tableau community, having been awared 2x VOTD and nominated as Datafam Rising Star …

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#WOW2025 | Week 8 | Can you display a ratio and a volume on the same chart?

Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by a new guest coach, Kieran Adair. Kieran lives in Australia and has been working with Tableau for several years. He has been a long-time fan of Workout Wednesday and recently reached out to me with an idea for a challenge, which I thought you all might …

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#WOW2024 | Week 47 | Top 5 Product Sales vs Other Products

Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by a suggestion that I made to a colleague when he faced the problem of having a small space to work with, but wanting to give the end user the ability to drill-down a bit deeper. His idea was to only show the Top 5 within a selected Sub-Category. …

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#WOW2024 | Week 41 | People Resource Planning

Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by another guest coach – introducing Dan Wade!   Dan has been working with Tableau for just over a year. Originally trained by *the* Matt Francis in a Management Trainee role, Dan quickly recognised the power of data visualisation and analytics so he decided to pivot his …

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#WOW2024 | Week 35 | Advanced Parameter/Set Action

Introduction A huge thank you to Valerija Kirjackaja for sharing this fantastic challenge with us. It’s a little trickier than last week, this one is a classic #WOW – simple on the surface with lots of tricks behind the scenes. Reordering a chart using set or parameter actions is a pretty common use case – …

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