Introduction Recently I’ve been spending more time working with Map Layers, so this week is dedicated to reimagining maps using this feature. You’re tasked with recreating a Regional Readout Report where Sales teams can see the performance of various cities within their Region. They’ll be able to get more information by hovering over a city. …
Introduction Learning complex techniques and beautiful design is super important to mastering visual analytics. But, nothing will stop a user from regularly and joyfully using a dashboard than a poor performing one. It doesn’t matter if it looks like Michaelangelo designed it or it has the cure for some crazy infectious disease – if it …
2021 Week 18: Can You Performance Tune This Workbook? Read More
When I came across Nathan Yau’s post, over on his site – Flowing Data, I instantly knew this would make a great #WorkoutWednesday challenge.
Introduction With Tableau 2021.1 being released last month, I thought it was time for a challenge. This week we focus in on the new feature of Quick LODs. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 800px by 700 px One Sheet Create a dual axis chart which shows the Sub-Category Average Sales by …
2021 Week 16 | Tableau : Can you use Quick LODs to recreate this view? Read More
Introduction Lately I’ve been working with Google Analytics data, so I thought I’d pass on a data set to you! Our data set was created by you the audience – it’s extracted directly from our website analytics. This week’s challenge focuses on a lot of little things coming together – dashboard design, formatting, and reference …
Introduction Have you ever purchased something on Amazon and they show an extra random list of products in the “Customers that purchased X also purchased…” section and you think to yourself, “How in the world did they come up with that combination (e.g., sponges and Skittles)?” They likely have high-powered recommender engines doing all of …
2021 Week 14 | Tableau: Can You Recommend Profitable Return Customer Bundles? Read More
Introduction The goal is a modified mekko chart. My guess is you will need LODs to solve but it is 100% possible with table calculations. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 800px by 400 px Set the bar height to be percent profitable. The level of analysis should be at the sub-category …
2021 Week 13 | Tableau: What percentage of sub-orders are profitable? Read More
The Fixed LOD gets a lot of the spotlight in tableau but we shouldn’t forget about its cousins INCLUDE & EXCLUDE. Have a go at this challenge to practice use those functions.
Introduction This week I wanted to throw it back to an old classic chart by Hans Rosling, if you haven’t seen the TED talk I highly recommend watching it. Hans shows how fertility rate and life expectancy has changed over the years. With this example we are going to look at Income per GDP and …
2021 Week 11 | Tableau : Can you recreate the work of Hans Rosling? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is pulled directly from a work challenge I encountered recently. The ask was to build a filtering system that would allow the user to initially filter data and then add a secondary requirement of inclusion. Using the Superstore data set, the functionality we wanted to achieve was: Allow user to filter …
2021 Week 10 | Tableau: Can you build a must include filter? Read More
