Introduction To ensure that a dashboard you have built is running optimally prior to being released to your users, run a performance check on the dashboard and all queries. The dashboard inspector 2.0 identifies different types of bottlenecks, such as slow queries and networks, and provides recommendations to improve the performance. It is also a […]
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Introduction The November 2023 release of Power BI Desktop includes the new button slicer visual. This visual can currently be used as a replacement for the original slicer visual when using tiles. There are more enhancements to come, but we already have a lot more control over the formatting of the slicer. We can add
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Introduction As we continue Global Recognition Month here at WOW Towers, I’d like to introduce you to Norbert Borbás (@norbert_borbas), a data analyst from Hungary who has been on a mission this year to complete all the #WOW2023 challenges. He has received 4 Viz of the Day awards, and was recognised as ‘one to watch’
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Introduction This week for Workout Wednesday we are performing RFM (recency, frequency and monetary value) analysis. RFM Analysis is a marketing technique used to quantitatively rank and group customers based on the recency, frequency and monetary total of their recent transactions. A score of 1 to 5 is assigned for each of the three main factors.
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Introduction As you know, we’re in the middle of Diversity Month here at #WOW2023 and I’m excited to welcome Ervin Vinzon. Ervin hails from Philippines and is a Tableau User Group Ambassador. He is also an avid #WOW2023 participant. We are honored to have his challenge featured this week. Hey there, I’m Ervin Vinzon, leading
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Introduction You probably have heard of the Pareto Principle before. And if not under that name, you might have heard of the 80:20 rule which states that for many use cases, 20% of the input create 80% of the output. For example, for many projects 20% of the work is required to get you 80%
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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re creating a dumbbell chart to compare 2 sets of values using Deneb! If this is your first time using Deneb I highly recommend you play around with either the Vega or Vega-lite languages in the online editor, where you can load the code from examples, amend it,
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Introduction This month the Workout Wednesday team wanted to invite guest coaches from around the world to create some challenges that could help highlight our growing global community.It’s my honour to introduce this week’s guest coach, Flávio Matos. Flávio is a colleague of mine at the Data School and has been working with Tableau for
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Introduction This week we will be expanding on a previous post by Preena in week 34. If you did not already complete the wk 34 lesson, you will want to create the Design Style Guide Templated App in your dev org. This prebuilt app offers valuable insights to best design principles and UX features. Of
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Introduction For this week’s challenge, we will be creating dynamic text boxes to introduce our visuals and tell a story around our data. This is differentiated from the “smart narrative” visual in that we will customize the text and measures that we display to create our own narrative. In the example below, you’ll notice that
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