Introduction I was looking through the new features available in version 2024.3 recently, and came across Spatial Parameters. Since I had some spatial data from a couple challenges ago, I decided to give it a try and see if I could make it work. For a quick intro of Spatial Parameters, I suggest TableauTim’s introductory …
Introduction We’re going to try something a little different this week. We’re going to make a viz/dashboard without a dataset. Having just come from my daughter’s Christmas show this evening, and thinking I wanted to focus on container/dashboard formatting but keep it simple, I decided to build, then decorate a Christmas tree. So, that’s what …
Introduction This week we’re working with some spatial data. I have a project at work where we’re finding the number of records (points) that are within a geospatial area (polygon), so we’ll try that this week. We’ll use public school district boundaries (polygons) and school locations (points) to find the number of schools in each …
#WOW2024 Week 44 | Can you join two spatial files to find intersection? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge again comes from trying to solve a problem in my day job, where I was exploring the possibility of parameters being multi-select like filters. We couldn’t use filters because we had different data sources, so I found a few forum and blog posts that make multi-select parameters a possibility, even if …
#WOW2024 | Week 38 | Can you create multi-select parameters? Read More
Introduction The Olympics continue this week, so we’re continuing with an Olympic theme this week as well. When thinking about a challenge, a Makeover Monday I did in 2018 came to mind (which was inspired by this viz by Rody Zakovich). But that one was the Winter Olympics, so we’re going to build a version …
#WOW2024 | Week 32 | Can you compare Olympic medalist age to a user’s age? Read More
Introduction I was recently catching up on the Flerlage Twins blog, and came across a post that I had somehow missed from the end of last year about trying to solve a highlighting problem with donut charts when filtering. I read through it, and was surprised that my favorite technique from Yuri Fal didn’t work, …
#WOW2024 | Week 26 | Can you filter from a donut without highlighting the pie? Read More
Introduction A couple weeks ago while standing in line for Ken and Kevin Flerlage’s session at Tableau Conference, I had a conversation with the woman next to me that led to something like “what is something you’re trying to solve right now?” Her response was that her boss wanted to have something of a stoplight …
#WOW2024 | Week 20 | Can you combine categorical and sequential colors in the same chart? Read More
Introduction This week kicks off our Community Month, where we invite folks from the Tableau community to create a challenge. First up is Jack Hineman, frequent WOW participant and Tableau Social Ambassador: I am so excited to be participating in Community Month for #WorkoutWednesday. I have been a weekly participant in #WOW challenges for the …
#WOW2024 | Week 14 | Can you build a Trellis of Profit Ratio Gauges? Read More
Introduction While reviewing recent work I’ve done in preparation for this week’s challenge, I came across a tile map with individual area charts by state that we use to monitor subscriptions, and thought it would be a fun one. As I dug into it, I realized it was inspired by Luke’s challenge in 2020 Week …
#WOW2024 | Week 8 | Can you create an area chart tile map? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is another from recent experience. As we have spikes or drops with various metrics, we found that we often asked the same questions…What marketing campaigns were happening at that time? Did we send any big email campaigns around then? Did we launch a new product feature or experiment? With all these …
#WOW2024 | Week 2 | Can you create a time-focused Gantt Chart? Read More
