In the final week of the community challengers we have Rosario Guana. She is a Tableau Ambassador and a Tableau Zen Master. Rosario has been championing WorkoutWednesday since day 1, she writes blog posts about solutions and other tips and tricks in both English and Spanish. When Tableau 2019.2 was launched, I soon found myself testing …
Week 35: Drill Down & Up on Sales with Subtotals using Parameter Actions Read More
We’re in week 3 of Community Contributor Month. This week’s challenge is brought to us by Jeffrey Shaffer. Jeffrey is a 4 time Tableau Zen Master, co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards, and maintains several websites (including must-bookmark TableauReferenceGuide.com). So where did the challenge come from? Here it is in Jeff’s own words: This …
Week 34: Can You Build a Top N Bar Chart on a Single Worksheet? Read More
This week are excited to continue the community challenge month by welcoming Corey Jones. Based out of Philadelphia, Corey was a 2018 IronViz Finalist and is an avid sports fan. One of the great things that comes with working with a talented team is that you have the opportunity to learn from and push each …
2019 Week 33: 2018 IronViz Finalist Corey Jones’s Table Challenge Read More
This week’s workout comes from a special guest, former Iron Viz champion Klaus Schulte! Klaus has come up with a great challenge for all of you; he and I (Curtis) will be your coaches this week. Thank you Klaus! Step line charts have been introduced with Tableau’s 2018.1 release and it’s really hard to remember …
This week, alongside WorkoutWednesday we have a new collaboration, which gives you a chance to try out another community project, #PreppinData. PreppinData is a like workoutwednesday but with Tableau Prep Builder. Each week they give you a messy data set, some requirements and a finished data set, you then have to use Tableau Prep Builder …
If your schedule is anything like mine, then you’re probably enjoying the summer months – using vacation time, nicer weather, summer holidays, and a generally more relaxed schedule. To help keep that vibe going, this week I’m challenging you to a very straightforward build. This is an extremely simplified version of something I recently built …
Last week we were putting together a deck for an executive team and we wanted to show the seasonality of data while still showing the overall average. In our time crunch we came up with our challenge for this week!p Challenge – Intermediate Click image to view on Tableau Public Requirements – Intermediate Format: 900px …
2019 Week 29: Which months do we see a higher number of orders? Read More
I recently came across a material design style guide for data visualization, and wanted to try some of the concepts. Google has many design guides based on their material design concept, but none related to data visualization until just recently. These style guides are great for getting new ideas, just make sure you don’t get …
How often do you think about scale? Making sure my dashboards scale over time is one of my top priorities whenever I start a new project, so this week’s Workout Wednesday is going to be focused on building a solution that will scale combined with standard KPI views. I’ve been asked to build KPI views …
Last week I was lucky enough to spend some time in Berlin attending Tableau Conference Europe. Coming off the heels of the conference I was struck by the three components the Tableau team was sharing in terms of new features and development. They shared components focused on 1) Making Analytics for Everyone 2) Analytics at …
