Welcome to Community Month Hey all! It’s Sean and I’M SO EXCITED to be here to kickoff #WOW2020 Community month! Over the course of the next 4 weeks, we’ll be hosting challenges from some incredible community members! For the last 2 two years, we’ve dedicated a month to highlight & promote some incredible members of …
Introduction When I was asked to create a dashboard to help public health offices get a handle on the COVID-19 one of the more interesting challenges I was faced with how to allow the user to search for a particular county and filtering a map to only counties within a specified radius. So that’s what …
WOW2020 | week 36 | Can you find all counties within n miles of a selected county? Read More
Introduction Hi friends! Well, it’s been a quarter since my last challenge so you know what that means, it means we’ve got a new version of Tableau to check out! A couple weeks ago, 2020.3 was released and with it came a whole host of new awesome features and functionality! As always, #WOW2020 is here …
Introduction This week, I thought I would do a throwback to a speed tipping session I did in Vegas at Data19. This is using some of the cool spatial techniques. I like to think of this as a target chart, as that’s what it creates. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 800px …
2020 Week 34: Can you show all the crimes within X miles of Y Point? Read More
Introduction This year it seems like most of my favorite dashboards are some version of a scatterplot. I’ve always loved the scatterplot since it is such an elegant way to show two measures at once and perfect for unearthing relationships among measures. So for this week’s challenge, I thought I’d make one with a slight …
2020 Week 33: Is Profit Ratio Influenced by Quantity? Read More
Introduction This week I wanted to post a WOW challenge derived from a chart I’ve been reporting on for the past 7 months: a cartogram of states showing rolling-seven day average of new COVID-19 cases by state. For this challenge you will use data from Tableau’s COVID-19 Data Hub. I picked this challenge because working …
Introduction For this weeks challenge we are doing a Live collaboration with Preppin’ Data. Where you work through the data prep and then use the outputs to build in Tableau. This is a live event happening on Wednesday 29th July 2020, 4pm BST. The idea of the collaboration allows you to have a look inside …
2020 Week 31 LIVE: Can you show the top 10 rank over time for each Olympic country? Read More
Introduction Hey #WOW2020, Emma Whyte here. It’s been a blast being back building a Workout Wednesday! It’s been about 2 years 7 months since my last WOW with Andy Kriebel when we kicked off this project in 2017. It’s been fun, and a little bit stressful, getting back into the mindset of setting a weekly …
2020 Week 30: Can you create a drill down using set actions? Read More
Introduction The topic week is based on a recent project of my colleague, Tamás Gáspár, with whom I had the opportunity to make this super challenge for you guys. Heatmaps are a chart better suited to representing a more generalised view of numerical data, as it’s harder to accurately tell the differences between colour shades …
2020 Week 29: Can you dynamically display label on a heatmap? Read More
Introduction Congratulations! We are now halfway through 2020 – it’s been a remarkable year, certainly full of twists, turns, and the unexpected. The purpose of this week’s challenge is to demonstrate how a metric compares to a goal. Like most goal data I encounter, the sales goals for this challenge don’t reside in the same …
