Introduction Continuing with our community month, I decided to invite the OG himself back for a challenge, Andy Kriebel. All I’m going to say about this challenge is, I’m sorry if it’s super hard and don’t be afraid to sneak a peak into the actual workbook to get insight into how Andy’s mind works! Click …
#WOW2024 Week 15: Can you create a (super) dynamic trellis chart? Read More
Introduction Here is a fun one to keep the map theme going: Bivariant maps! These maps are a good way to encode two variables on a map and give the user a way to see the relationship between the two at a glance. But beware, correlation does not imply causation. So, while for this map …
Introduction This week, we’re building a staple in my bar chart library: Top, Bottom, and Other Values. I often use this bar chart to easily show the breadth of the outliers while not losing sight of the typical. This challenge is also a great example of the flexibility of modeling at different levels of granularity …
2024 Week 15 | Sigma: Can you identify the top, average, and bottom profitable customers? Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re recreating a really neat viz that was originally created by Flávio Matos for the Tableau team back in 2023. Flavio created the Periodic Table of Wine, with an option for users to select the food they’ll be eating to help them pair the perfect wine. Today, …
2024 Week 14 | Power BI: Use a matrix to re-create a Tableau viz Read More
Introduction Welcome to Week Fourteen! This week, you’re going to learn about Sigma’s Lookup function. Lookups are very useful for joining information from one data source to another, without accidentally fanning your data. Sigma also has a Lookup Wizard for a foolproof way of utilizing this function. When I book a flight, I am particularly concerned …
2024 Week 14 | Sigma: It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Lookup Functions! Read More
Introduction Another month another week and we are already in the second quarter of the year! Let’s start this quarter strong and use timeseries in dashboards. This week is based on similar dataset as the week 4 and 9 but has been organized by energy types as a column! The challenge is to create a …
Introduction This week kicks off our Community Month, where we invite folks from the Tableau community to create a challenge. First up is Jack Hineman, frequent WOW participant and Tableau Social Ambassador: I am so excited to be participating in Community Month for #WorkoutWednesday. I have been a weekly participant in #WOW challenges for the …
#WOW2024 | Week 14 | Can you build a Trellis of Profit Ratio Gauges? Read More
Introduction We’re deep in the March Madness tournament, so what better way to celebrate than by digging into some NCAA data? This weeks challenge is one that shows a creative way of comparing two entities based on similar stats. I’m actually not sure if there’s a better way of handling this challenge, so I would …
Introduction I’m always on the lookout for inspiration to share in a #WorkoutWednesday challenge, and Sam Parson’s recent movie viz provided that for this week. Sam displayed the total revenue for the top 50 movie franchises, directly alongside a stacked bar depicting the revenue for each individual movie in that franchise. There is also a …
#WOW2024 | Week 13 | Can you build this segmented bar chart? Read More
Introduction In this week’s challenge we are creating an Overlay Histogram. An overlay histogram utilises overlapping columns or bars to compare two populations. In this case, we are utilising the speed dating data from a previous challenge to compare male and female differences in dating preferences. Requirements Obtain the data from the Workout Wednesday 2022 …
