Week 12: Can you do Comparative Quantity Analysis?
The Fixed LOD gets a lot of the spotlight in tableau but we shouldn’t forget about its cousins INCLUDE & EXCLUDE. Have a go at this challenge to practice use those functions.
2021 Week 12 | Power BI: Custom Sorting
Introduction Thanks to everyone who has ben participating in #WorkoutWednesday – Power BI edition. This week we are going to be diving into a couple of different ways to custom sort your data. End users will often ask for specific sorting order, so figuring out how to do this in Power BI can be extremely …
2021 Week 11 | Power BI: Can you Turn a Ribbon Chart into a Bump Chart?
Power BI Conditional Formatting using Background Color, Font Color, and Icons
2021 Week 11 | Tableau : Can you recreate the work of Hans Rosling?
Introduction This week I wanted to throw it back to an old classic chart by Hans Rosling, if you haven’t seen the TED talk I highly recommend watching it. Hans shows how fertility rate and life expectancy has changed over the years. With this example we are going to look at Income per GDP and …
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2021 Week 10 | Tableau: Can you build a must include filter?
Introduction This week’s challenge is pulled directly from a work challenge I encountered recently. The ask was to build a filtering system that would allow the user to initially filter data and then add a secondary requirement of inclusion. Using the Superstore data set, the functionality we wanted to achieve was: Allow user to filter …
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2021 Week 10 | Power BI: Violin Plot Custom Visual
Introduction Thanks for joining us for Week 10 of Workout Wednesday – Power BI Edition. This week our challenge is to use the Violin Plot custom visual. There are no dependencies on prior weeks for this workout, so feel free to jump right in. Custom visuals are additional visuals created by Microsoft and Microsoft partners …
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2021 Week 9 | Power BI: Forecasting and Anomaly Detection
Introduction Welcome back for Week 9 of Workout Wednesday, Power BI edition. If you’re joining us for the first time, welcome! You can jump right in this week, where we’ll be exploring our data in Power BI. For this week’s challenge are going to use anomaly detection and forecasting to gain a deeper understanding of what’s going on now …
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2021 Week 9: Can You Hide A Chart in the Map Layers?
Introduction So, I’m a little late for Mardi Gras – but that didn’t stop me from thinking about King Cake, a New Orleans tradition (with French roots) where a little plastic baby is put inside of a cake that is plastered with green, yellow, and purple frosting with tons of sprinkles. Anyone teeth hurt yet? …
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2021 Week 8 | Power BI: SWITCH()ing Measures
Introduction Thanks to everyone who has ben participating in #WorkoutWednesday – Power BI edition. This week we are going to be diving into switching metrics in your reports using SWITCH() and a slicer. This method can be especially useful when designing reports for mobile use. Toggling between metrics allows you to save real estate on …
#WOW2021 | 08 | Can you use the Brush Filter extension?
Extensions are live on Tableau Public! Check out this challenge to explore the new Brush Filter extension