Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by another guest coach – introducing Dan Wade! Dan has been working with Tableau for just over a year. Originally trained by *the* Matt Francis in a Management Trainee role, Dan quickly recognised the power of data visualisation and analytics so he decided to pivot his …
Introduction Welcome to Week Forty! In my last article, Week 36, we covered how to affect multiple columns using the same filter. This week, we’re going to focus on even more advanced filtering techniques. What do you do when you want to compare multiple arrays? Luckily Sigma recently released a brand new function: ArrayIntersection. In …
Introduction Deciding how to best use the limited space on a dashboard is always a challenge. I’ve often struggled with practical issues, especially regarding the placement of filters. This time, let’s create a brush filter as one way to use the chart itself as a filter. Enjoy the challenge and have fun trying it out!” …
#WOW2024 | Week 40 | Can you create a brush filter? Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday. This week we’re extending the #FabConEurope edition of Workout Wednesday. We’re hosting a contest and three winners will receive a 30-minute one-on-one mentoring session with one of the three Workout Wednesday hosts. For more information on how to enter, see contest details below. Requirements Get and transform data Get …
2024 Week 40 | Power BI: #FabConEurope Edition – Contest Deadline Extended! Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday. This week we’ve got a special #FabCon Edition of Workout Wednesday. We’re hosting a contest and three winners will receive a 30-minute one-on-one mentoring session with one of the three Workout Wednesday hosts. For more information on how to enter, see contest details below. Requirements Get and transform data Get …
Introduction This week, I wanted to challenge myself to do something I didn’t know how to do in Sigma, I wanted to start laying the groundwork to do sensitivity analysis. I’ve often thought this would be possible in Sigma, since we can connect to Snowflake User-Defined Functions (UDFs) via Sigma’s function bar to call models …
2024 Week 39 | Sigma: Can you test out changes in cost? 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 Welcome to Week 38! Sometimes there are events or notable data points that aren’t stored in your data, but you want to see how they effect the trends. Enter reference marks and conditional formatting! This week we practice using reference marks and conditional formatting to highlight specific dates and events. The formatting styles and …
2024 Week 38 | Sigma: Can you create reference marks? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge again comes from trying to solve a problem in my day job, where I was exploring the possibility of parameters being multi-select like filters. We couldn’t use filters because we had different data sources, so I found a few forum and blog posts that make multi-select parameters a possibility, even if …
#WOW2024 | Week 38 | Can you create multi-select parameters? Read More
Introduction Ternary plots are a unique plot that is typically used to look at the mineral composition of rocks. However these plots have been adapted in data journalism for looking at voting intention in varying demographics. Each point on the plot comprises a percentage of each dimension e.g of the 65+ age demographic, 16% of …
