Introduction I was struggling to think of a challenge for this week, so I went back to the archives and found this one. This is looking at Customer Spend Insights, which is looking at their first & second purchase, and whether they are deemed as Outliers or not You have the option to choose between […]
#WOW2026 | Week 19 | Can you visualise Customer Spend Insights? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Every week I’m reminded at how much people struggle with containers in Tableau. So I thought why not make another challenge to see how people get on. I’ll be giving you the solution file and it’s your job to recreate the same item hierarchy Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1200×800
#WOW2026 | Week 11 | Can you use layout containers? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Happy New Year everyone, my turn comes round awfully quickly these days. As it’s still the start of 2026, I didn’t want to go too hard too quick. Hopefully this isn’t too bad. We are flexing our Table Calc, Date and Order of Operations skills in this challenge. Have fun! Click to open in
#WOW2026 | Week 4 | Can you create a dynamic moving average? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I thought about this challenge after I had a question about doing it, usually where these ideas come from. Tableau don’t make this easy and unfortunately you have to hack it a little bit. But today we are going to create breadcrumbs in Tableau especially when using filters Click to open in Tableau Public
#WOW2025 W49: Can you create breadcrumbs for filters? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I had a thought last week about using the parameter driven axis ranges and whether they could be reset to the minimum and maximum. Turns out they can be, and hence this challenge. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements 1 sheet You’ll need: 4 parameters 4 LODs 1 colour calc (reference lines are
#WOW2025 | Week 40 | Can you create this Zoom and Reset Scatter Plot? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I created this viz to show off some crazy golf scores from my latest cohort at The Data School, especially to show off the fact I won. But I added in some Table Calculations and other bits to add some context, I thought it would make a good challenge. Click to open in Tableau
#WOW2025 Week 33: Can you recreate this Marginal Histogram Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This may seem like a seeming normal line and area chart but I said “Why Tableau” numerous times when trying to create it.You want to be able to see the Top X customers per Quarter and what their percentage of total sales is. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 800×800 1
#WOW2025 Week 26: Can you create this seemingly simple line chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Some of you may have seen this challenge as I got my weeks all confused but here we go. Coming fresh off of Tableau Conference and I loved seeing different use cases and tricks. So part of this comes from a tips session with Nhung Lee. And well obviously some additional techniques because I
#WOW2025 Week 19: Can you create stars & reference lines? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Starting the community month with a Challenge from a Data School Consultant Abby Poon. She came to me with a puzzle and we solved it together. The idea is you want to be able to see how the Top X customers are changing over the last 3 years (dynamically). Each year the top X
Introduction I always thought this type of exercise had to be overly complex with Level of Detail calculations or Table Calc, but actually you don’t need to use those to do this challenge. So I challenge you to be able to compare to a selected months value WITHOUT using LODs or Table Calcs. Click to
#WOW2025 Week 4: Can you compare to a selected months value? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday