Introduction This week, I’m introducing the idea of taking bathymetry or contour lines on maps and placing the lines on heat maps. These lines come from identifying the elevation (for contour lines) or depth of water (for bathymetry lines) and creating a map using those values. Here is an example of a contour map from …
2023 Week 20: Can you build a heat map with bathymetry lines? Read More
Introduction I’m so excited to bring this challenge to you live from Tableau Conference 2023 and I get to be the one who created the challenge. I saw something on twitter a while back and wanted to see if I could recreate it in Tableau. This challenge is not as easy as it looks but …
#WOW2023 Week 19: Can you create a jitterfly chart? TC23 Live Edition Read More
Introduction One of my favorite challenges from the past is from Week 4 2020: Can you combine relative and custom dates? I was always fielding questions if I could have a relative date filter and a date picker on the same dashboard, but hadn’t ever figured it out. After Sean’s challenge that week, I implemented …
#WOW2023 Week 18: Can you combine relative and custom date filters? Read More
Introduction For the last week of Community Month, I’m thrilled to introduce you to my colleague at Biztory, Nik Eveleigh (@MrEvilEye). I’ve known Nik virtually through our shared love of #WOW for around 3 years. After he returned to the UK from South Africa at the end of last year, I was delighted to learn …
This week’s challenge is to enhance a Superstore text table, inspired by Luke Stanke’s 26 Ways to Enhance your Tables in Tableau and Sam Parsons’s amazing Super Advanced Tableau Tables.
Introduction It’s Community Month once again here at #WOW2023 which means we have a guest coach. I wanted to use this opportunity to connect with our global community. Without a doubt, the most active group of challenge participants I see on Twitter, beyond those in anglophone countries, are the #DataSaber community based in Japan. I …
#WOW2023 | Week 15 | Can you create Digital Signage with Tableau? Read More
Introduction Welcome to community month for 2023. Each year since 2018 we’ve hosted a community month–where we invite different people from the Tableau Community. This year I wanted to invite someone who has been a prolific supporter of the data visualization community but hasn’t been recognized by Tableau as an Ambassador or Visionary for his …
2023 Week 14: How short are baseball games in 2023? Read More
Introduction This week we are focusing on one of the newest features in Tableau 2023.1, Dynamic Axis Titles. This is something we have all been waiting for and it’s such an easy thing to do now. But obviously it’s not going to be as simple as that, it also contains small multiples! Have fun! Click …
#WOW2023 Week 13: Can you use dynamic axis titles? Read More
Introduction A few weeks ago I saw this Twitter poll (and the ensuing discussion) about Team Tiled vs Team Floating and I noted that I am neither. Rather, I am Team Container. Using Containers in dashboards makes positioning and sizing everything in your dashboard a piece of cake, once you have mastered how they work. …
#WOW2023 | Week 12 | Can you build a dashboard using containers? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is focused on interactivity, and was born out of a client requirement to compare store locations via selections from a map. I’ve naturally adapted it to use our favourite Superstore dataset. The core requirement is to be able to make a selection on the map and see how sales compare to …
