#WOW2023 week 10: Let’s practice Device Designer
One of the less often used features of Tableau is device designer. While it may not be needed all the time, when the need does arise its good to have the practice under your belt
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#WOW2023 | Week 9 | A tricky filter
Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by a question from a client. In truth, I was not able to solve the problem for them upfront. This challenge would not exist were it not for an article in the Tableau Community that explains how to achieve the desired outcome – thanks to whoever wrote this up! …
#WOW2023 | Week 3 | Calculating Year-On-Year Percentage Change
Introduction This week’s challenge is one I’ve been waiting to share with you. It has a bit of everything, so I hope you enjoy it! The goal is to visualize the Sales in a given year for different countries in Europe, with an indicator in the tooltip to identify whether this value has increased or …
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#WOW2022 | Week 50 | Interactive Proportional Brushing
Introduction This is my last challenge of the year and what better way to round things off than with everyone’s favourite chart – the bar chart – but let’s make it “sexy”. Bar charts may be simple but when you combine them with some interactive highlighting and sorting you can create something quite dynamic which …
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#WOW2022 | Week 45 | Average Patient Waittimes
Introduction This week’s challenge was derived from a project that I helped some colleagues with. My colleagues were working on a client project for a travel company. They wanted to be able to compare a selected “Event Date” with an average travel day. The aim was to see if and how travel patterns might be …
#WOW2022 W43: Advanced Formatting by Jeremy Anderson
Introduction Conditional formatting is a robust feature in Power BI that you can leverage to help users gain insights. Typically, we see conditional formatting applied to the table and matrix visuals. For example, you might apply a background color, font color, or icons to the values based on a set of rules. Conditional formatting of …
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#WOW2022 Week 41: Can you do YoY comparisons?
Introduction Welcome to week 2 of #WOW2022 community month! I’m excited to have Liam Huffman joining me for this week’s challenge. Liam is a fellow colleague at Evolytics and is a great member of the #datafam! With that – here’s Liam Hey everyone! I’m excited to be here sharing my challenge dashboard. This one focuses …
#WOW2022 W40: Power BI: Field Parameters with Conditional Formatting
Introduction This month we are getting the #WorkoutWednesday community involved in the challenges with Community Month. Each week we’re going to have an outstanding member of our community present a challenge. This week we have one of the best out there, Sekou Tyler, gracing us with his presence. Sekou is an accomplished BI professional and …
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#WOW2022 | Week 40 | Applying Accessibility Principles to Data Visualization
Introduction October is Community Month here at Workout Wednesday. This means that each challenge will be brought to you by a guest coach from our wonderful data community Kicking things off this week, we have a challenge by Collin Smith (@collinalldata). “Have you ever tried to incorporate accessibility into a Tableau dashboard? Incorporating accessibility into our …
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#WOW2021: A Retrospective
Another year has come and gone! 2021 marked the 5 full years of #WorkoutWednesday! 260 weekly Tableau technical challenges aimed at helping you skill up your Tableau development. It is impossible to quantify the impact this project has had on countless members of the community.