Introduction In my 7 years of “coaching” #wow challenges, this might be the one I’m most excited about. You see, this weekend is Halloween and one of my favorite traditions around this holiday is carving pumpkins! I tried it all, mostly unsuccessfully, but I’ve never, in all my years, tried carving a pumpkin in TABLEAU!!! […]
#WOW2026 | 43 | TableauLanterns! 🎃 Read More »
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Introduction This week’s challenge may not be too difficult for some of you, but I created it in order to bring attention to an essential skill – calculating weighted averages. As data analysts, it’s our responsibility to ensure that the data we display is not misleading or innacurate. I didn’t spend too much time explaining
#WOW2026 | Week 14 | Can you calculate the correct metric? Read More »
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Introduction Welcome to week 9! I recently had a client reach out about some advanced navigation and filtering requests for their dashboard. It combined elements of Dynamic Zone Visibility and different types of filter actions. And I thought it was the perfect challenge for this week so here ya go! Click to open in Tableau
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Introduction Hello everyone, I’m very happy to be back for another year of Workout Wednesday! For my first challenge, I wanted to focus on something that every Tableau learner will encouter: Table Calculations and Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations, and what is the difference between them? Well, sometimes only one of these types of calculations
#WOW2026 | Week 7 | Exploring Table Calcs vs LODs Read More »
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Introduction For my last challenge of the year, I decided to make it a little spicier. It has parameters, it has fun calculations, it has AND/OR logic, and it has a dynamic title that is worthy of your attention. Here’s hoping you can apply all those skills you’ve gained this year to sail through this
#WOW2025 | Week 50 | Top 1% of Customers by Profit OR Sales OR Quantity Read More »
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Introduction A huge thank you to Valerija Kirjackaja for her continued support as guest coach. This week I had an idea that I didn’t have time to test and implement, due to other life priorities, so I feel very grateful to be able to lean on the people around me for support. This feels like
#WOW2025 | Week 43 | Can you build a ranked heatmap tile? Read More »
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Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by yet another Guest Coach and active member of the Tableau and Workout Wednesday communities. Presenting, Giulio D’Errico! Giulio proposed this challenge to me several weeks ago and we have worked together to build out his idea. This challenge applies some great fundamental skills, and then has
#WOW2025 | Week 36 | Can You Build a Color-Coded Filter? Read More »
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Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by a question from a colleague. They were looking for ideas for how to manage a chart with multiple lines and mulitple metrics. My colleague started with the idea of highlighting a single line in each chart, to show how the company compared to its competitors – a simple
#WOW2025 | Week 29 | Competitor Comparison Read More »
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Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by Robbin Vernooij & Lorna Brown’s talk from Tableau Conference this year (TC25) titled ‘Taming the Beast: Normalization Strategies in Tableau’ Normalization allows us to examine the relative importance of values that may be on completely different scales. A common example of where we use normalization is when we
#WOW2025 | Week 22 | Data Normalization Methods Read More »
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Introduction It’s Community Month once again, which means we have a series of guest coaches creating challenges for you over the next few weeks. This week’s challenge creator is relatively new to Workout Wednesday, but is a prominent member of the wider Tableau community, having been awared 2x VOTD and nominated as Datafam Rising Star
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