Introduction Frequent Workout Wednesday participant Jack Hineman reached out to me last week saying he had just come up with something at work he thought would make a good WOW challenge. He sent it to me and it looked really interesting, so we’ve got a guest challenge this week. Here’s Jack: I have been debating […]
#WOW2026 | Week 10 | Baseline YoY Revenue Read More »
Introduction This week we’re going to build out a parallel coordinates chart – a type of visualisation used to display and compare multiple numerical measures. My daughter, Mia, is an academy level footballer and wears a stats vest in matches and training to capture lots of data about her performance. I’d been meaning to try
#WOW2026 | Week 9 | Can you build a parallel coordinates chart? Read More »
Introduction Welcome to week 9! I recently had a client reach out about some advanced navigation and filtering requests for their dashboard. It combined elements of Dynamic Zone Visibility and different types of filter actions. And I thought it was the perfect challenge for this week so here ya go! Click to open in Tableau
#WOW2026 week 8: DZV and Filter Actions Read More »
Introduction Hello everyone, I’m very happy to be back for another year of Workout Wednesday! For my first challenge, I wanted to focus on something that every Tableau learner will encouter: Table Calculations and Level of Detail (LOD) Calculations, and what is the difference between them? Well, sometimes only one of these types of calculations
#WOW2026 | Week 7 | Exploring Table Calcs vs LODs Read More »
Introduction I am excited to begin my third year as a Workout Wednesday coach! This year, I remain committed to providing challenges that help you flex your Tableau muscles and maintain your analytical strength. This week’s challenge is inspired by a real-world scenario I encountered recently. While building a dashboard to track service usage, I
#WOW2026 | Week 6 | Can you account for nulls in your averages? Read More »
Introduction Thanks to tools like Tableau MCP, AI can now handle deep-dive data analysis for us. Ask it “why is this metric dropping?” and you’ll get a pretty solid answer. But before that step — noticing that something looks off in the first place — that’s still on us, looking at a dashboard. This week,
#WOW2026 | Week 5 | KPI Trend Monitor with Period Comparison Read More »
Introduction Happy New Year everyone, my turn comes round awfully quickly these days. As it’s still the start of 2026, I didn’t want to go too hard too quick. Hopefully this isn’t too bad. We are flexing our Table Calc, Date and Order of Operations skills in this challenge. Have fun! Click to open in
#WOW2026 | Week 4 | Can you create a dynamic moving average? Read More »
Introduction Last month I had some colleagues that were able to attend DataFam Europe, and a few of them came back saying how much they enjoyed Tristan Guillevin’s presentation and asked if we could get his viz extensions for our Cloud site. In the process, I decided to play with a few, and since they
#WOW2026 | Week 3 | Can you create KPI cards with viz extensions? Read More »
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 »
