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
Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by another guest coach – introducing Dan Wade! Dan has been working with Tableau for just over a year. Originally trained by *the* Matt Francis in a Management Trainee role, Dan quickly recognised the power of data visualisation and analytics so he decided to pivot his …
Introduction Deciding how to best use the limited space on a dashboard is always a challenge. I’ve often struggled with practical issues, especially regarding the placement of filters. This time, let’s create a brush filter as one way to use the chart itself as a filter. Enjoy the challenge and have fun trying it out!” …
#WOW2024 | Week 40 | Can you create a brush filter? Read More
Introduction This week I wanted to go back to basics and take advantage of one of the newer Tableau Features. Viz Extensions. Due to Tableau Public only allowing one at the minute we have to show case the Sankey Chart! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 1000 x 800 Create a sankey …
#WOW2024 W39: Can you use the Sankey Viz Extension? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge again comes from trying to solve a problem in my day job, where I was exploring the possibility of parameters being multi-select like filters. We couldn’t use filters because we had different data sources, so I found a few forum and blog posts that make multi-select parameters a possibility, even if …
#WOW2024 | Week 38 | Can you create multi-select parameters? Read More
