Introduction Last week I was reminded of an Old Workout Wednesday from TC18. This week I chose to replicate (but simplify) the task. No super fancy calcs, simple Sets (and maybe an IF statement or two) Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard 1000 x 800. 1 Sheet Create Sets for Top & Bottom […]
Introduction I have been running an experimental fork of the Tableau MCP server, trying to make dashboards live inside an AI chat. The piece I am most excited about is the viz state snapshot. You filter the embedded dashboard, the model gets told what you are now looking at, and it can go query the
#WOW2026 | Week 31 | Let’s Build an MCP Apps-Ready Dashboard! Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this week’s challenge, I’m asking you to build a viz I put together that visualises the the tennis career of the current men’s world #1 and 2026 Wimbledon champion, Jannik Sinner. There’s a fair amount going on, so I appreciate this may take a while to completely replicate. If time is short, the
#WOW2026 | Week 30 | Can you build a ladder chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Welcome to week 29! I’m so excited to be back with another interesting challenge. It occurred to me recently that we’ve been using Sample – Superstore for decades and there is no shortage of date filter tips and tricks but they are all based on traditional Gregorian calendars. And I’ve yet to work with
#WOW2026 | Week 29 | Fiscal Fun Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week we have a challenge by Lisa Hitch, Coach of the New York Data School and Winner of the Tableau Conference Tips Battle. This week we’re putting a fresh spin on a classic chart: the Pareto chart! The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) tells us that roughly 80% of outcomes
2026 | Week 28 | Can you build a Pareto Chart with Colored Backgrounds? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction The other day, at the Hokuriku Tableau User Group, I had the opportunity to talk all about trellis charts with a room full of practitioners—covering everything from the basics and handling missing values to the aspect ratio of individual line chart panels, and more.This week’s challenge features trellis charts as its theme once again,
#WOW2026 | Week 27 | Can you build a trellis chart with segment pies? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Tableau 2026.2 added a new Drive Time Area tool to maps, and I couldn’t resist building a challenge around it. You click a spot, drag outward, and Tableau shows how far you can really drive based on actual roads, not a straight line circle. This week, start from Union Station in Washington D.C. and
#WOW2026 | Week 26 | Let’s Try the Drive Time Area Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This challenge is similar to other challenges, except you’re trying to think differently. Previously this challenge would have been done with LODs or Table Calcs, whilst using Parameter Actions. But you don’t need those fancy Table Calcs or LODs to make the basis of this to work.Yes this does contain some hacky elements, mainly
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction The World Cup is in North America this month, and I saw a post showing the locations of national team training sites along with venues where games are being held, and the distance they were each travelling. I was curious if I could build something similar, and I was similarly curious how much each
#WOW2026 | Week 24 | Can you measure and visualize travel distance? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction When browsing around for inspiration for this week’s challenge, I came across this stem & leaf Power BI WOW challenge by Meagan Longoria, which in turn was inspired by a Tableau #WOW challenge set by Yusuke in 2024. So I thought it would be fun to go ‘full circle’ and see if I could
#WOW2026 | Week 23 | Can you create a double-sided multi-row Stem-and-Leaf Plot? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday