Introduction This week I have a full-on Tableau Spatial challenge for you. Just one worksheet. Minimal formatting. It’s all about the behind-the-scenes magic. Enjoy! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1000 x 800px 1 sheet Create a map of the 48 ‘contigous’ (aka: mainland) US States Plot points for every City in …
Introduction This July we bring you another month of challenges with a theme: We are going RETRO!Each coach will be going back through the WorkoutWednesday archives and re-vizzing a challenge from the past. It may be one of their favourite challenges, or maybe there’s a much easier way to do …
#WOW2023 | Week 27 | Re-viz: Discovery Dashboard Read More »
Introduction This week’s challenge is a slight twist on the classic Measure (bar) vs Target (gantt) chart. The key difference here is that we want to allow the user to select a ‘tolerance’ around the specific Target value. We only want to highlight months where profit was Above or Below the permited tolerance. Click to …
#WOW2023 | Week 21 | Profit vs Target (with Tolerance) Read More »
Introduction It’s Community Month once again here at #WOW2023 which means we have a guest coach. I wanted to use this opportunity to connect with our global community. Without a doubt, the most active group of challenge participants I see on Twitter, beyond those in anglophone countries, are the #DataSaber community based in Japan. I …
#WOW2023 | Week 15 | Can you create Digital Signage with Tableau? Read More »
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by a question from a client. In truth, I was not able to solve the problem for them upfront. This challenge would not exist were it not for an article in the Tableau Community that explains how to achieve the desired outcome – thanks to whoever wrote this up! …
Introduction This week’s challenge is one I’ve been waiting to share with you. It has a bit of everything, so I hope you enjoy it! The goal is to visualize the Sales in a given year for different countries in Europe, with an indicator in the tooltip to identify whether this value has increased or …
#WOW2023 | Week 3 | Calculating Year-On-Year Percentage Change Read More »
Introduction This is my last challenge of the year and what better way to round things off than with everyone’s favourite chart – the bar chart – but let’s make it “sexy”. Bar charts may be simple but when you combine them with some interactive highlighting and sorting you can create something quite dynamic which …
#WOW2022 | Week 50 | Interactive Proportional Brushing Read More »
Introduction This week’s challenge was derived from a project that I helped some colleagues with. My colleagues were working on a client project for a travel company. They wanted to be able to compare a selected “Event Date” with an average travel day. The aim was to see if and how travel patterns might be …
Introduction October is Community Month here at Workout Wednesday. This means that each challenge will be brought to you by a guest coach from our wonderful data community Kicking things off this week, we have a challenge by Collin Smith (@collinalldata). “Have you ever tried to incorporate accessibility into a Tableau dashboard? Incorporating accessibility into our …
#WOW2022 | Week 40 | Applying Accessibility Principles to Data Visualization Read More »
Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by a guest coach, my colleague Valerija Kirjackaja, who came across this problem at work and created a beautiful solution for it. How often do you get asked to re-create Excel tables in Tableau? On a scale from 1 to ‘I am never doing this again’ – …
#WOW2022 | Week 35 | Conditional Table Formatting with Dynamic Headers Read More »
