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 We’re going to try something a little different this week. We’re going to make a viz/dashboard without a dataset. Having just come from my daughter’s Christmas show this evening, and thinking I wanted to focus on container/dashboard formatting but keep it simple, I decided to build, then decorate a Christmas tree. So, that’s what …
Introduction This weeks challenges come from a fellow Data School Coach, Robbin Vernooij. He created this back in 2019, but I thought it was a pretty cool dashboard and gets you to think about Sets in a good way! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 1000×800 Connect the data together You can …
#WOW2024 W49: Can you create a scatter plot investigation? Read More
Introduction Hey there #DataFam! Welcome to week 48 of 2024…that’s wild when you think about it. That means that we have 47 other challenges already this year. So what are doing this week? We’re gonna play different mark types on dual axis. This week’s challenge is something I’m calling a “candle line” chart. Check it …
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 we are live at DataFam Europe in London and we have paired up with Preppin Data to make sure our data is in the best format ready to go for building our visualisation. If you want to take part in the PreppinData challenge, you can find it here. As we are in …
Introduction This month we hold Global Community Weeks! We’ll feature guest coaches from around the world in the coming weeks. I’m excited and honored to introduce Tomoki Goda (@padawan_viz) from Japan! Tomoki is relatively new to Tableau but is strongly passionate about Tableau community activities. He is one of the co-hosts of a popular Japan …
#WOW2024 | Week 45 | Can You Switch A Dashboard Theme? Read More
Introduction This week we’re working with some spatial data. I have a project at work where we’re finding the number of records (points) that are within a geospatial area (polygon), so we’ll try that this week. We’ll use public school district boundaries (polygons) and school locations (points) to find the number of schools in each …
#WOW2024 Week 44 | Can you join two spatial files to find intersection? Read More
Introduction Hello #WOW enthusiasts, I’m Hannah, a data analyst consultant at The Information Lab. This week’s challenge is inspired by a client project I did recently, where I was trying to recreate a specific visual from a different software. I thought I could save you the headache if this kind of problem ever crossed your …
#WOW2024 W43: Can you show total sales and filtered sales in the same view? Read More
Introduction Hot out of the oven Tableau 2024.3 is here! And with it comes SO MANY amazing new features including the topic for this challenge. Table Extensions! That’s correct, you read that right. Tables are now “native” to Tableau. I used air quotes because it does require viz extensions to be enabled on your cloud/server …
#WOW2024 | 42 | Let’s play with Table(au) Extensions! Read More
