Introduction Welcome back to another challenge. This week we’re tackling some financial data and in particular, a waterfall chart based on multiple measure columns. Can you handle it? Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 800 x 600 One worksheet Create a waterfall chart for Gross Sales Discounts Net Sales COGS Profit Create …
#WOW2024 | 36 | Can you build a Measure Names Waterfall? Read More
Introduction A huge thank you to Valerija Kirjackaja for sharing this fantastic challenge with us. It’s a little trickier than last week, this one is a classic #WOW – simple on the surface with lots of tricks behind the scenes. Reordering a chart using set or parameter actions is a pretty common use case – …
#WOW2024 | Week 35 | Advanced Parameter/Set Action Read More
Introduction Have you ever received a request to make the data displayed on a dashboard different depending on who is viewing it? For example, let’s think about a scenario where the sales for each sub-category are displayed, but the sub-categories shown vary depending on the viewer. It’s straightforward if one sub-category is to be displayed for …
#WOW2024 | Week 34 | Can You Control the Displayed Data Based On Sub-Category Assignment? Read More
Introduction Apologies for the late challenge this week but we are sticking with the Olympic theme, this week we are building the Olympic Medal Table. I wanted to replicate as close as possible the medal table from this website. Note: The data for China is Incorrect but this is based off of the source I …
#WOW2024 | Week 33 | Can you build the Olympic Medals Table? Read More
Introduction The Olympics continue this week, so we’re continuing with an Olympic theme this week as well. When thinking about a challenge, a Makeover Monday I did in 2018 came to mind (which was inspired by this viz by Rody Zakovich). But that one was the Winter Olympics, so we’re going to build a version …
#WOW2024 | Week 32 | Can you compare Olympic medalist age to a user’s age? Read More
Introduction The 33rd Summer Olympic Games started in Paris last week, so we have an Olympic themed challenge this week, and I hope this is a fun one. When researching ideas, I saw this viz on my colleague, James Newton’s (Twitter|X / Linked In ), Tableau Public profile and thought it would be good fun to …
#WOW2024 | Week 31 | How do you compare against the world’s best 100m runners? Read More
Introduction It’s no surprise that many analysts tend to enjoy looking at data via a scatterplot. It’s a great way to show correlation across two measures for a cohort of dimensions. Additionally, one of the most popular charts of all-time is a line chart which shows historical trends. So how we do show correlation of …
Introduction Tableau 2024.2 has recently released and I was excited to put together a New Features challenge for you all, including the Multi-Fact Relationship model and maybe a Viz Extension or two. While I’ve had a lot of fun diving deep into learning about Multi-Fact Relationships, I pretty quickly encoutered a limitation for incorporating it …
#WOW2024 | Week 29 | Formatting & Intermediate Tableau Charts Read More
Introduction Do you like panel chart? I love it.It is often requested in practical work because it is suitable for getting an overview.This time, I am taking up some of the more challenging requests from past practical work.I believe this will help you level up your panel chart skills, so please enjoy the challenge! Click …
WOW2024 | Week 28 | Can you design a multi-dimensional Panel Chart for detailed analysis? Read More
Introduction One of the perks of my job is that I get to help colleagues solve puzzles that clients throw at them. This is where this came from. Well in fact – the original idea came from a Power BI report, and I wanted to prove it was doable in Tableau. Click to open in …
