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
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
Introduction This weeks challenges come from a fellow Data School Coach, Robbin Vernooij. He created this back in 2019, but I thought it was a pretty cool dashboard and gets you to think about Sets in a good way! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 1000×800 Connect the data together You can …
#WOW2024 W49: Can you create a scatter plot investigation? Read More
Introduction This week we are live at DataFam Europe in London and we have paired up with Preppin Data to make sure our data is in the best format ready to go for building our visualisation. If you want to take part in the PreppinData challenge, you can find it here. As we are in …
Introduction Hello #WOW enthusiasts, I’m Hannah, a data analyst consultant at The Information Lab. This week’s challenge is inspired by a client project I did recently, where I was trying to recreate a specific visual from a different software. I thought I could save you the headache if this kind of problem ever crossed your …
#WOW2024 W43: Can you show total sales and filtered sales in the same view? Read More
Introduction This week I wanted to go back to basics and take advantage of one of the newer Tableau Features. Viz Extensions. Due to Tableau Public only allowing one at the minute we have to show case the Sankey Chart! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 1000 x 800 Create a sankey …
#WOW2024 W39: Can you use the Sankey Viz Extension? Read More
Introduction Apologies for the late challenge this week but we are sticking with the Olympic theme, this week we are building the Olympic Medal Table. I wanted to replicate as close as possible the medal table from this website. Note: The data for China is Incorrect but this is based off of the source I …
#WOW2024 | Week 33 | Can you build the Olympic Medals Table? Read More
Introduction One of the perks of my job is that I get to help colleagues solve puzzles that clients throw at them. This is where this came from. Well in fact – the original idea came from a Power BI report, and I wanted to prove it was doable in Tableau. Click to open in …
Introduction This week I wanted to do something spatial related, so I challenged Olivier Newman, one of our Data School Consultants, to build me a challenge. I am breaking his challenge into two weeks. The first being this one. Can you rebuild this tube map? Ideally you will need 1 parameter and 1 set and …
#WOW2024 | Week 21 | Can you rebuild this tube map? Read More
