Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by a new guest coach, Kieran Adair. Kieran lives in Australia and has been working with Tableau for several years. He has been a long-time fan of Workout Wednesday and recently reached out to me with an idea for a challenge, which I thought you all might …
#WOW2025 | Week 8 | Can you display a ratio and a volume on the same chart? Read More
Introduction Happy New Year! For those of you who like to set goals, I hope we can help you level up your skills in Tableau this year. This first month, our aim is to bring you challenges that are accessible to everyone who feels they are at a Beginner to Intermediate level. We hope you …
#WOW2025 | Week 1 | Can you replicate Quick Table Calcs? Read More
Introduction As we near the end of 2024, I have one last BIG challenge for you all. In the new year I plan to hit reset and get back to fundamentals. If you’re looking to take a break for the holidays, I hope you can come back to this head scratcher when you’re ready. This …
#WOW2024 | Week 51 | Filter for One Value OR All Others Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by a suggestion that I made to a colleague when he faced the problem of having a small space to work with, but wanting to give the end user the ability to drill-down a bit deeper. His idea was to only show the Top 5 within a selected Sub-Category. …
#WOW2024 | Week 47 | Top 5 Product Sales vs Other Products Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by another guest coach – introducing Dan Wade! Dan has been working with Tableau for just over a year. Originally trained by *the* Matt Francis in a Management Trainee role, Dan quickly recognised the power of data visualisation and analytics so he decided to pivot his …
Introduction A huge thank you to Valerija Kirjackaja for sharing this fantastic challenge with us. It’s a little trickier than last week, this one is a classic #WOW – simple on the surface with lots of tricks behind the scenes. Reordering a chart using set or parameter actions is a pretty common use case – …
#WOW2024 | Week 35 | Advanced Parameter/Set Action Read More
Introduction Tableau 2024.2 has recently released and I was excited to put together a New Features challenge for you all, including the Multi-Fact Relationship model and maybe a Viz Extension or two. While I’ve had a lot of fun diving deep into learning about Multi-Fact Relationships, I pretty quickly encoutered a limitation for incorporating it …
#WOW2024 | Week 29 | Formatting & Intermediate Tableau Charts Read More
Introduction This challenge started out with one idea which turned into something very different. It’s a little wacky & a little hacky, which I suppose is the essence of these challenges. The main element of this challenge became figuring out how to move a Parameter input box to a different position on the page, based …
#WOW2024 | Week 23 | Manually overwrite a value in a table Read More
Introduction For the final week of Community Month, it is my pleasure to introduce you to a new Guest Coach on the Workout Wednesday team, Deborah Simmonds. For a number of years, Deb has been one of the most dedicated #WOW participants, so I was delighted to invite her to create her own challenge for you. …
#WOW2024 | Week 17 | How far would total steps from TC23 respondents take you? Read More
Introduction This week kicks off our Community Month, where we invite folks from the Tableau community to create a challenge. First up is Jack Hineman, frequent WOW participant and Tableau Social Ambassador: I am so excited to be participating in Community Month for #WorkoutWednesday. I have been a weekly participant in #WOW challenges for the …
#WOW2024 | Week 14 | Can you build a Trellis of Profit Ratio Gauges? Read More
