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#WOW2025 | Week 35 | Can You Visualize Yearly Rank Changes in Sub-Category Sales?

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Introduction I’ve recently been running several hands-on Tableau workshops for beginner- to intermediate-level users across different prefectures. In one of those sessions, a participant asked how to visualize both ranking changes and differences in sales at the same time. This week’s challenge was inspired by that question. It might be a bit tricky, but I …

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#WOW2025 | Week 34 | Can you breakdown YoY profit into its drivers?

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Introduction I’ve been playing around with Tableau MCP and something called “Vibe Analytics” lately (look them up if you’re curious!).This week’s challenge was inspired by working with a generative AI to analyze the Sample Superstore dataset, exploring ways to break down profit into its key drivers and compare year-over-year performance. Have fun building this waterfall …

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#WOW2025 | Week 32 | Can you use Dynamic Spatial Parameters?

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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 …

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#WOW2025 | Week 31 | Can you build an alternative to a stacked bar chart?

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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 …

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#WOW2025 | Week 29 | Competitor Comparison

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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 …

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#WOW2025 | Week 28 | Can you use Dynamic Color Ranges?

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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 …

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#WOW2025 | Week 27 | Let’s Practice Regex in Tableau with Generative AI

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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 …

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#WOW2025 Week 26: Can you create this seemingly simple line chart?

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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 …

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#WOW2025 | Week 25 | Can you make a dynamically highlighting tooltip?

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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 …

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