Introduction Welcome back to #WOW2026! Thank you all for your continued support, and for bearing with us while we carried out some maintenance on the website. For the first challenge of the year, I’m asking you to recreate a technique that was originally introduced way back in 2010, and re-shared during a ‘tips and tricks’ […]
#WOW2026 | Week 2 | Can you create a fake Viz in Tooltip? Read More »
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 »
Introduction I thought about this challenge after I had a question about doing it, usually where these ideas come from. Tableau don’t make this easy and unfortunately you have to hack it a little bit. But today we are going to create breadcrumbs in Tableau especially when using filters Click to open in Tableau Public
#WOW2025 W49: Can you create breadcrumbs for filters? Read More »
Introduction Following last week’s challenge, we’re continuing with the Bar Chart Race theme — but this time, it’s more advanced! Last time, we created a basic Bar Chart Race, but because we used monthly data, the animation movement was somewhat discrete. This week’s challenge takes it to the next level by using Data Densification and
#WOW2025 | Week 48 | Advanced Bar Chart Race Read More »
Introduction This week, Agentforce World Tour Tokyo is being held in Japan! As one of the many sessions from DataFam, Workout Wednesday will be holding its first-ever live session in Japan! For this special occasion, With Yoshi and other supporters from the Japanese Workout Wednesday enthusiasts have created a fun, quick challenge themed around a
#WOW2025 | Week 47 | Can you make a bar chart race? Read More »
Introduction I know what you’re thinking…”Kyle, we just did dynamically zooming maps a couple months ago!” And you’re right, we did. However, sometimes data is structured in a way we need to do some things differently. So we’re working on a different method for dynamically zooming this week, which doesn’t use spatial parameters. “But Kyle, why
#WOW2025 | Week 46 | Can you create a dynamically zooming map? Read More »
Introduction Sean here and I’m back with another challenge this week. This week we’re challenging you to create a population pyramid using HR data from RWFD. Check it out! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Size 1300×600 1 sheet Show the male and female head counts by age group Show the total headcount by
WOW2025 | 45 | Population Pyramids Read More »
Introduction Some time ago the brilliant Sam Parsons, developed a “Satellite” or “Spiral” Chart as an alternative way to visualise a donut that exceeded 100%.https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sparsonsdataviz/viz/SpiralingSatelliteCharts/SpiralingSatelliteCharts. As with many things Sam comes up with, I always want to see if I can build it, and once again it’s a great excuse for a #WOW challenge. Back
#WOW2025 | Week 44 | Can you build a satellite chart to represent values exceeding 100%? Read More »
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 »
Introduction I recently received a business request with the following requirements: The user wants to easily change the dimension that colors the charts on a dashboard. The list of dimensions might be added or removed in the future, so the solution needs to be simple and easy to maintain. This week’s challenge is inspired by
#WOW2025 | Week 42 | Dynamic Dimension Coloring Read More »
