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
Introduction Week 20 already! Crazy how fast the year is going by…and how fast you’re skilling up in Sigma! I love scatter plots. They’re a great way to display a lot of information in an easily consumable package. Layering quadrant colors on top, make it even easier to visually group dots and find outliers. -Katrina …
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
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is for participants new to Power BI and/or new to data visualization. We’re building a report containing 2 charts, a table, and a slicer. My challenge to you is to design the report in a way that a) makes sense to business users and b) is …
2024 Week 20 | Power BI: Build your first report with Dynamics 365 Business Central Data Read More
Introduction In this week’s challenge, we are experimenting with Radial Plots using Line and Scatter Core Visuals. Radial Lollipop charts are an alternative to radar charts. Power BI does not have Polar Plots, only cartesian plots, so we will need to use trigonomic functions within DAX to calculate the cartesian X and Y position of points. Requirements …
2024 Week 19 | Power BI: Radial Plots using Line and Scatter Charts with trig functions Read More
Introduction After last week’s awesome product launch, I was thinking about some of the Sigma features that we have not yet highlighted in Workout Wednesday. One of those is Custom Functions, and while the ability to create Custom Functions is currently reserved for admins, it’s a great feature for users to be aware about when …
Introduction It’s the 18th week of the year and time for another CRM Analytics challenge! This week’s task is to rank the energy dataset by country for each year and create one chart out of it. This chart will show the least and most energy consumed based on the type of energy consumption selected. Sounds …
Introduction So this week follows on from my previous challenge in week 13 here. Feel free to either recreate completely from scratch or use my/your own original solution to build on (my solution for week 13 is here and my solution guide is here). Having built a segmented bar chart, we are now going to …
#WOW2024 | Week 19 | Can you expand this segmented bar chart? Read More
Introduction Welcome to week 18 and this week’s challenge. This is a special challenge as it is the challenge that coincides with Tableau conference and #Data24! This week your challenge is to analyze sleep survey data and build a marimekko chart in Tableau! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements size: 1000×800 the x axis …
Introduction Continuing on last week’s infographic theme, we are recreating an infographic from Visual Capitalist this week, this time showing average lifespan for different mammals. We will be using a scatterplot visual of your choice this week. I made two demo versions, one using the Deneb custom visual and one using the Enhanced Scatterplot custom …
2024 Week 18 | Power BI: Visualize Mammal Lifespan with a Scatterplot and Background Image Read More
