Introduction Set actions came out almost 7 years ago, and only had about 3 quarters in the spotlight until parameter actions came out. Both are very powerful, but I would venture that most people (myself included) tend to use parameter actions more. So here’s your chance to give Set actions a go. Shortly after Set …
#WOW2025 | Week 25 | Can you make a dynamically highlighting tooltip? Read More
Introduction This week we’re live at Tableau Conference! Our focus is going to be on a dashboard layout using containers and actions. I’ve built a starter workbook with most of the charts you’ll need, so you’ll just be building one chart and putting them all together on the dashboard with the actions needed. Click to …
#WOW2025 Week 16 | Can you use Containers and Dynamic Zone Visibility? Read More
Introduction Cohort analysis is always fun to try and figure out how to show enough information without dumping every cohort onto a chart. This challenge looks at cohorts of when a first purchase was made (Superstore data), and subsequent sales to those customers. Are there certain cohorts that continually spend more money? Do certain cohorts …
#WOW2025 | Week 11 | Can you find Sales per Customer by First Purchase Cohort? Read More
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
