Introduction This week’s challenge is brought to you by another guest coach – introducing Dan Wade! Dan has been working with Tableau for just over a year. Originally trained by *the* Matt Francis in a Management Trainee role, Dan quickly recognised the power of data visualisation and analytics so he decided to pivot his …
Introduction Deciding how to best use the limited space on a dashboard is always a challenge. I’ve often struggled with practical issues, especially regarding the placement of filters. This time, let’s create a brush filter as one way to use the chart itself as a filter. Enjoy the challenge and have fun trying it out!” …
#WOW2024 | Week 40 | Can you create a brush filter? Read More
Introduction This week I wanted to go back to basics and take advantage of one of the newer Tableau Features. Viz Extensions. Due to Tableau Public only allowing one at the minute we have to show case the Sankey Chart! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 1000 x 800 Create a sankey …
#WOW2024 W39: Can you use the Sankey Viz Extension? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge again comes from trying to solve a problem in my day job, where I was exploring the possibility of parameters being multi-select like filters. We couldn’t use filters because we had different data sources, so I found a few forum and blog posts that make multi-select parameters a possibility, even if …
#WOW2024 | Week 38 | Can you create multi-select parameters? Read More
Introduction We’re going back to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this week. I loved them and built my own version of the medal table that I’d been looking at constantly throughout the 2 weeks based off of the BBC (UK) mobile app. I added the ability to click and see what medals were won each …
#WOW2024 | WEEK 37 | What medals did each country win each day? Read More
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
