Introduction Hello friends! You may know from Tableau side but I’m so excited to be hosting my first SIGMA challenge! I’ve been playing in Sigma for the past 3 years and have continually been impressed with every release. I really like the flexibility. I wanted my first challenge to showcase a use case that sets […]
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community, Sigma
Introduction In my 7 years of “coaching” #wow challenges, this might be the one I’m most excited about. You see, this weekend is Halloween and one of my favorite traditions around this holiday is carving pumpkins! I tried it all, mostly unsuccessfully, but I’ve never, in all my years, tried carving a pumpkin in TABLEAU!!!
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community, Tableau
Introduction We know that Tableau can be used for really great executive dashboards and analytic explorations, but one of the things that I love using Tableau the most for is storytelling. Especially whenever you can combine that with a map, Tableau can do some pretty incredible things. This week, for Workout Wednesday, we’re going
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to week 29! I’m so excited to be back with another interesting challenge. It occurred to me recently that we’ve been using Sample – Superstore for decades and there is no shortage of date filter tips and tricks but they are all based on traditional Gregorian calendars. And I’ve yet to work with
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For the week’s challenge we’re looking at Gantt charts! Gantt chart don’t have to necessarily show timeline data. In Tableau, they can be used to show “floating” bar charts. Which can be very powerful in certain use cases. This challenge looks at historical American Football Super Bowl betting odds and game results. In this
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to week 15 and week 3 of Community month! I’m so thrilled to be partnering with Tableau Visionary HOF’er, Linsday Betzendahl! 6 months ago or so, while chatting, she mentioned she was messing around with stacked bars originally for the offset labels but determined that the Mekko concept was actually where she had
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to week 9! I recently had a client reach out about some advanced navigation and filtering requests for their dashboard. It combined elements of Dynamic Zone Visibility and different types of filter actions. And I thought it was the perfect challenge for this week so here ya go! Click to open in Tableau
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community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Sean here and I’m back with another challenge this week. This week we’re challenging you to create a population pyramid using HR data from RWFD. Check it out! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Size 1300×600 1 sheet Show the male and female head counts by age group Show the total headcount by
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we’re going easier than typical. We’re going back to the basics. We’re going to practice our Table calculations in a simple easy dashboard. If you wanna take it up a notch, feel free but this week is keeping it simple. So here go! Let’s practice Table Calcs This week’s challenges highlights data
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Tableau, Uncategorized
Introduction Have I ever talked about how much I love table calcs? They are super powerful and often more performant than the often overused LOD expression. So that’s what we’re going to practice this week. Can you create a control chart only using table calcs? Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements 1 sheet create
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday