Introduction This week I have a full-on Tableau Spatial challenge for you. Just one worksheet. Minimal formatting. It’s all about the behind-the-scenes magic. Enjoy! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1000 x 800px 1 sheet Create a map of the 48 ‘contigous’ (aka: mainland) US States Plot points for every City in …
Introduction This week we have a special guest, Venkatesh Iyer. Venkatesh is currently a Senior Analytics Consultant at phData–and has recently written a number of blogs that bring novel solutions to the community, including: How to improve the performance of count distinct How to Create a Drill Down Table in Tableau How to paginate in …
2023 Week 32: Can you show all values when filtering? Read More »
Introduction I am a big fan of Level of Detail calculations and this one is an oldie but goodie! That is the main focus this week, but also uses Parameter Actions & Viz in Tooltips. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 600 x 600 Two Sheets Find the most popular sub-category by …
#WOW2023 W31: Can you find the most popular sub-category by sales per state? Read More »
Introduction We’re continuing retro month this week, and I decided to re-viz Andy’s Week 41 challenge from 2017. I chose this one because I really like the concept of being able to drill down from state into city on the same chart, but I wondered if things would be easier than the calculations required to …
WOW2023 Week 30: Can you build a dynamic drill down scatterplot in one view? Read More »
Introduction For retro month at WOW Towers, I decided to go way back into the archive and focus on a challenge that was set by one of the original WOW coaches, Emma Whyte, in May 2017. The original challenge looked like the below image and provided a visual representation of the results of a blind …
#WOW2023 | Week 29 | Re-viz : Blind leading the blind Read More »
Introduction This is week 28 of 2023 and week 2 of #RE-VIZ-IT and I’m bringing back my VERY FIRST #WOW challenge from WAY BACK in the summer of 2018! I chose this challenge because “back in my day” this use case required additional sheets, a “custom” chart and a lot of sheet swapping. If you …
Introduction This July we bring you another month of challenges with a theme: We are going RETRO!Each coach will be going back through the WorkoutWednesday archives and re-vizzing a challenge from the past. It may be one of their favourite challenges, or maybe there’s a much easier way to do …
#WOW2023 | Week 27 | Re-viz: Discovery Dashboard Read More »
Introduction This week we are tackling Antarctic ice data. The changing sea ice will represent significant challenges for ourselves but even more for future generations. One thing we’ve come to realize in the past few years is that changes are coming much faster than we ever anticipated. For this week’s challenge we’re going to use …
Introduction I saw this visualisation floating around my twitter and trending on Tableau Public and thought it would make a great challenge for Workout Wednesday. Big thanks to Jacob for letting me use his visualisation as inspiration today! In this weeks workout, I want you to look at the percent change between two dates, we …
#WOW2023 Week 25: Can you calculate a percent difference between a range of dates? Read More »
Introduction This week’s challenge is another exploration of dynamic zone visibility, this time combined with a mobile app-like concept. Sometimes executives need just a few critical metrics at their fingertips, and this is a concept I’ve mulled around for a while (probably stemming from this concept by Anya A’Hearn) but felt like dynamic zone visibility …
#WOW2023 Week 24 | Can you build a mobile KPI app? Read More »
