Introduction The ability to efficiently find the proverbial needle in a haystack is worth its weight in gold. How many times has a key stakeholder asked you to give them a shortlist of products (insert the focus of your analysis) to focus on for business improvement/optimization opportunities…and they’ve asked you to get back to them …
2021 Week 31: Can You Find the Needle in the Haystack? Read More
I love puzzles, it’s the reason I love #WorkoutWednesday and have since it began in 2017. This week we’re tackling a recent puzzle I was confronted with. Let’s count the number of consecutive weeks with more sales than the week before. Can you solve it?
Introduction This week we have teamed up with the Preppin Data team and the PBI team, to come up with a challenge cross over. As the Olympics is starting imminently we thought it would be appropriate to visualise the Olympic Schedule. We would encourage you to take a look at all challenges this week to …
2021 Week 29 | Tableau: Can you rebuild the Olympic Schedule? Read More
Introduction This week’s Workout Wednesday is brought to you by Josh Jackson. For those who don’t know, Josh is my husband! He typically prefers to stay in the background, but asked if he could borrow one of my weeks to share this challenge. Here’s the challenge in his own words: This week is inspired by …
2021 Week 28 | Tableau: Can you build an app to visualize wildfires? Read More
Introduction Like a fine pinot grigio, I really enjoy a good box-and-whisker plot. There is so much good stat stuff in one place like the min/max, median, top/bottom performers, and outliers in the data set. I have found, however, that they are rarely used and some business end users find them hard to read. …
2021 Week 27: Can you find the top and bottom performers? Read More
Introduction This week we are going to do two things: look at alternative for the most common scatterplot I see in Tableau. use a very uncommon unsynchronized dual axis chart. First, the chart I always run into is this scatterplot of total sales and total profit by order. While we can see which orders were …
2021 Week 26 – Tableau: Profitability with Dual Axis Charts Read More
Introduction This week we’re going to reach back in the WOW catalog to week 24 of 2017. Do you remember where you were in your Tableau journey back then? Workout Wednesday was just kicking off with Andy Kriebel and Emma Whyte and in week 24, Emma presented this challenge to the community. Now, normally, I …
Introduction How is it that time of the week already? This week I have a challenge for you which hones in on some of the Map Layers and Spatial Calculations. It is using a dataset recreated by a colleague of mine Dan Farmer as he posted a similar visualisation internally. Thanks for the inspiration Dan. …
2021 Week 24 | Tableau: Can you visualise the Cholera Outbreak? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by a recent situation I encountered. The dashboard users had two different ways to calculate a goal and wanted the option to change how the calculation works for each category. Not only that, they wanted to be able to take the mixed calculations and sum them up to get …
Introduction Data analyst is supposedly the sexiest job of the 21st century. Most people think that we spend our time building amazing models, visualizations, or insights all day. What they don’t know is that you spend nearly most of your time cleaning data. Some data is nice and refined (aka usable) and other data needs …
#WOW2021 week 22: Can You Structure the Unstructured? Read More
