Well, it’s the end of 2020. It’s been a tough year for everyone. We know this for so many reasons. And it’s reflected participation rates (and page rates) of Workout Wednesday challenges. If you dive into the Workout Wednesday metrics, you can see that our overall page views were stagnant–and the dive directly tied to …
Introduction This is my last Workout Wednesday for 2020 (don’t worry, I’ll be back in 2021!), so I thought I’d take it easy on everyone. This week you’ll be building a single chart – a divergent histogram. I first saw a divergent histogram via the Economist almost 3 years ago and tagged it as a …
2020 Week 51: Can you build a Divergent Histogram? Read More
Introduction This week we are throwing it back to using measure names and measure values. There are two levels to this challenge: Level 1 Showing the visualization as is, but without the circles around the white dots in each line Level 2 Adding a ring around the white dots on the viz. There is no …
2020 Week 50: Can you highlight profits with measure names? Read More
Introduction Sam Epley (100% completion club #WOW2020) is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Sam’s own words: Several months ago, I was working with a client who wanted to provide their end user with some pretty clever functionality I’d never seen before. They wanted their user to be …
2020 Week 49: Can you toggle between AND & OR filtering logic? Read More
Introduction Jami Delagrange is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Jami’s own words: Similar to Ann’s experience with the Clustered Histogram (last week’s challenge), I had an idea recently where I knew how to do the individual parts and wasn’t sure how to put them together. I knew how …
2020 Week 48: Can you create a Variable Width Bar Chart? Read More
Introduction I’ve had a post-it note on my desk since TCish 2020, someone asked me how to make a Clustered Histogram in Tableau and I froze. I know how to make packed bar charts, and I know how to make a histogram, but the idea of a clustered histogram – a TRUE clustered histogram with …
2020 Week 47: Can you create a Clustered Histogram? Read More
Introduction I was scrolling thru my Twitter timeline and noticed a comment by fellow Zen Master Simon Beaumont to #MakeoverMonday co-lead Charlie Hutcheson regarding tables, specifically the kind to track teams and the results of matches in the English Premier League (which are a group of the highest level teams that play football/soccer in England). …
2020 Week 46: Can you build a Premier League table? Read More
How can you use Tableau’s native features to show the top 10 products by sales for each state?
Introduction This week I struggled to get creative, but thought about what types of charts have we not built for a previous WOW. As far as I can see this has not been done in the past. So good luck! This chart is looking at the rise and fall of profit with a month. Click …
2020 Week 44: Can you create a small multiple waterfall chart? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is two parts: Mobile dashboard design and KPI design. First, designing for mobile is difficult, but mobile is all about simplicity and interactivity. In this case, the KPIs also act as buttons that will reveal bar charts showing performance by month. To me this design is Click to open in Tableau …
