Introduction Tableau has released several spatial capabilities over the last year, and they continued that trend in 2025.2, adding dynamic spatial parameters, which allow you to filter data by map viewport, among other things. We’ll go back to the US school data I’ve used for the other spatial challenges we’ve done this year, so this one …
#WOW2025 | Week 32 | Can you use Dynamic Spatial Parameters? Read More
Introduction I often use the #datafam community as inspiration for my #WOW challenges, as it gives me the perfect opportunity to try out a particular technique or visualisation style, which I hope you all then benefit from too 🙂 This week’s challenge was inspired by this blog post by the Flerlage Twins, which in turn …
#WOW2025 | Week 31 | Can you build an alternative to a stacked bar chart? Read More
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 …
Introduction With the release of Tableau 2025.2, it’s time to test out its powerful new capabilities! This week, we’re tackling the new Dynamic Color Range feature using data from Japan’s House of Councillors elections. The basic requirements cover the fundamentals. For the bonus, we’ll address a practical issue you’ll almost certainly encounter when you try …
#WOW2025 | Week 28 | Can you use Dynamic Color Ranges? Read More
Introduction How are you using generative AI these days? It’s definitely one of the hottest topics in the Data/BI world right now.I invite you to try using generative AI as part of the challenge. Regular expressions (Regex) are super powerful when working with text data. But let’s be honest – Regex can be difficult and …
#WOW2025 | Week 27 | Let’s Practice Regex in Tableau with Generative AI Read More
Introduction This may seem like a seeming normal line and area chart but I said “Why Tableau” numerous times when trying to create it.You want to be able to see the Top X customers per Quarter and what their percentage of total sales is. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 800×800 1 …
#WOW2025 Week 26: Can you create this seemingly simple line chart? Read More
Introduction Set actions came out almost 7 years ago, and only had about 3 quarters in the spotlight until parameter actions came out. Both are very powerful, but I would venture that most people (myself included) tend to use parameter actions more. So here’s your chance to give Set actions a go. Shortly after Set …
#WOW2025 | Week 25 | Can you make a dynamically highlighting tooltip? Read More
Introduction In this week’s challenge, we’re going to recreate a very small part of Kathryn McCrindle’s (Linked In / X ) #TC25 Iron Viz. Kathryn is a colleague of mine at Biztory, and made it through to the Iron Viz final at TC25 in San Diego. In 20 minutes, she built this impressive suite of …
Introduction Have I ever talked about how much I love table calcs? They are super powerful and often more performant than the often overused LOD expression. So that’s what we’re going to practice this week. Can you create a control chart only using table calcs? Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements 1 sheet create …
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 …
