Introduction This week my challenge comes from two places of inspiration. Firstly the ONS website and secondly a final interview for someone applying to the Data School. I loved the concept of the chart and it helps with context and also synchronisation of axis. Have fun. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 800 […]
#WOW2022 W28: Can you build a butterfly chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to Week 23 of Workout Wednesday. This week is a special week as we have teamed up with Preppin Data to bring you a double challenge. Even then I think both challenges can be done in multiple platforms. You might also want to dabble in Power BI as they are also doing this double
#WOW2022 W23 | Tableau : Prep That and Build This! Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this week I wanted to focus on a recently release feature. The workbook Optimizer. You will need to use 2022.1. It will give you a list of actions to take to make the workbook better. See if you can make this workbook pass all 12 actions! Requirements Dashboard to maintain the same Use
#WOW2022 W18 | Tableau : Can you Optimize this? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week I hone in on majority of those spatial calculations within Tableau. I love the flexibility that Mark Layers allows us to have. Prior to Tableau 2020.4 maps could only have 2 layers and creating this hub and spoke style map would require some serious data preparation. This workout requires 6 calculations. Click
#WOW2022 W13: Can you use multiple Mark Layers? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction There has been an overwhelming response from the last couple of weeks series so I thought, let’s continue. How many times have you gone into a meeting with a finished dashboard and someone’s asked “Can you just…”. Well here is my “Can you just…”!! I want you to be able to switch what measures
#WOW2022 | Week 08 | Let’s switch those measures! Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction I can’t believe I am entering my 4th year as a Workout Wednesday coach. It has been such an incredible journey so far. I bet you think how do we come up with the challenges all the time? Tableau has such a broad range of calculations and different ways of doing things so that
#WOW2022 | Week 03 | Can you visualise percent difference from a selected date? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This Workout comes from trying to solve a challenge by two Data School Consultants (Theo & Chris). We started down one route but ended up doing a different route. I want to say there are probably two ways to solve this, but I didn’t have the time for the first route. So if you
#WOW2021 W50 | Tableau: Can you recreate this drill down? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week I wanted to try a different chart type which is using several elements and some tips & tricks from our Speed Tipping session from TC21. I also love this chart in how it highlights the difference between the two values. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 800 x 400
#WOW2021 Week 46 | Tableau | Can you recreate this difference chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week I team up with Erica Hughes to create this fabulous challenge. I had an idea in my head to recreate something similar to the Brush Filter challenge by Sean. In my mind I did it with Parameter Actions, however when speaking to Erica she showed me the Set Actions Version. So that’s
#WOW2021 W42 | Tableau | Can you use set actions to create a reference date range? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This weeks community challenge is by Donna Coles. When I was approached by the #WOW crew to provide a guest challenge, I was a little unsure as to what I could do. I primarily work as a Tableau Server admin, so rarely have a need to build dashboards (which is why I like to do the
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday