Introduction A few weeks back, in week 11, I set this challenge to build a viz that allows the comparison of state sales. I indicated at the time that it was part 1, so this week is part 2 and we’re going to expand on the requirements. This type of scenario is very typical in a …
#WOW2023 | Week 23 | Can You Compare State Sales?- Part 2 Read More »
Introduction Last week, our team was faced with an unique challenge and I’m using it as the basis for this week’s challenge! The premise is quite simple – create a dashboard that shows KPIs and a trend of the selected kpi. Allow the user to filter dates, change the period type and select a period …
Introduction This week’s challenge is a slight twist on the classic Measure (bar) vs Target (gantt) chart. The key difference here is that we want to allow the user to select a ‘tolerance’ around the specific Target value. We only want to highlight months where profit was Above or Below the permited tolerance. Click to …
#WOW2023 | Week 21 | Profit vs Target (with Tolerance) Read More »
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 »
