If you’ve ever worked with web Google Analytics then you’ve probably seen the cohort analysis chart. To me its the coolest information provided. This week were back with an intermediate and jedi options. Both look basically the same but the jedi forces your thinking to a higher level! Intermediate Build a cohort analysis heat …
What better way to celebrate the release of step lines and jump lines in Tableau Desktop with a workout aimed at doing them the hard way? Using alternative line charts can be a great way to have more meaningful visual displays of not-so-continuous information. Or continuous information where it may not be best to display …
Sorry for the late post. I’m filling in this week at the last minute. Here is this weeks workout. click to view on Tableau Public Dashboard size is 700 x 600; tiled; 1 sheet Use a date parameter to select a select end date, limit it to all days in 2017. Use a parameter …
Workout Wednesday – Week 16: Sales for the last N vs. same time previous year Read More
Let’s take a closer look at this week’s intermediate problem. click to view on Tableau Public Requirements: Dashboard size is 850 x 600; tiled; 1 sheet Each member of the pictogram is a distinct product name. Each row in the pictogram has 10 members. Members of each new row are included from left-to-right. Sort …
I’m back from a one month hiatus! Hopefully you enjoyed the guest posts from Curtis Harris and Ann Jackson. This week were giving you two options: Intermediate or Jedi. Both are a play on an olympics visualization I put together a month ago. The Intermediate requires just a handful of calculations. The Jedi looks just …
Week 15: Total Products by Sub-Category OR Top 5 Sub-Categories by Total Product Read More
Earlier in the month Luke Stanke asked if I would write a guest post and workout. As someone who completed all 52 workouts in 2017, the answer was obviously YES! This week I thought I’d take heavy influence from a neat little chart made to accompany Makeover Monday (w36y2017) – the Frequency Matrix. I call it a Frequency Matrix, …
This week we are changing things up and looking at a few different Tableau Features. While we all love data visualization, and dashboards, we can still find ourselves trying to slowly push the Excel users. In these cases, we find it helps to give them Tables, with some visual/interactive elements. Requirements Dashboard size should …
Luke is out for the next month so this week 2016 IronViz Champion Curtis Harris is filling in. Here is Curtis’s post: I’ve heard this question many times in my career after presenting a completed viz to a stakeholder at work, “That’s fantastic, but compared to what?” So even if it is not directly requested, …
Week 12: Sub-Category Sales Change in the Last Two Periods Read More
In honor of Tableau 10.5 CHAR() function finally supporting extended Unicode Characters (don’t know why this wasn’t in the feature release…..), I decided to have some more fun with text. Requirements Create 1 sheet with a Small Multiple of 20X5 Grids for each Sub-Category in Office Supplies The percent of Total segment starts from …
Below is a chart built for #WorkoutWednesday. It seems to have thrown people off a bit. Just as a reminder here are the requirements: Use sales for 2017. The size of the dashboard 500px x 600px. If you think of the segments as a clock, Week 1 should be at the 12:00 position. The weeks …
