Introduction This week, I wanted to take a look at how people could visualise time in a unique way. My idea around this is planning. Looking at time in this manner allows people to look at workload / order load etc and see where was most and least popular, which will allow planning for the …
Introduction Happy New Year! I’m excited to be back for yet another year of Workout Wednesday. This year we’ve expanded the team and made a commitment to the community to provide solution videos. We’ve also got some great collaborations lined up, and a few exciting enhancements to come (custom color palette anyone?)! To get the …
2020 Week 2: Can you build a beautiful and dynamic bar chart? Read More
Introduction We’re back in 2020 with a whole new set of challenges. This month you’ll see challenges from Lorna, Ann, Sean, and myself. I’m starting this year off with a bar chart/data table because in our day-to-day we are always looking for a way to spice up our charts. To spice up these charts we …
Week 1: Can you sort dimensions with a single click? Read More
I feel completely honored to have spent a year working with Ann, Lorna, and Luke on this amazing project. I truly believe that Workout Wednesday is simply one of the best ways to skill up in Tableau, and if you regularly participate, you’ll quickly find yourself surpassing others in your profession and setting yourself apart …
I thought I would end the year with a simple Sales Performance dashboard. It is a recreation from Pradeep Kumar G‘s viz. What I love about this viz is how simplistic it looks and sticking with a “Brand”. This week, we create something similar, keeping it simplistic and on “Brand” Requirements Dashboard 1000 x 800 …
#WorkoutWednesday2019 Week 51 – Sales Performance Dashboard Read More
Let’s take a break from Superstore this week! I’ve fabricated some new data that will help us create a more realistic view of customer retention, you can connect to the data via the Google Sheet connector at this link. This data set has one row per order week and customer ID, representing said customer placed …
2019 Week 50: Can you build a retention heat map with a marginal histogram? Read More
How much information have you retained from Tableau Conference 2019? Are you still watching session videos (like I am?). This challenge is an homage to the amazing conference from this year. The challenge comes from something I encountered in a recent work situation. The end-user wanted to be able to automatically group together small contributing …
Week 48: Can you build a Bar Chart that automatically combines small contributions? Read More
This week I wanted to try and keep things simple. I wanted to show how to build a high level dashboard and use the new feature of explain data to produce another. Requirements Dashboard Size 1000 x 800 3 Sheets on first dashboard, 2 auto created sheets on the second Sub Category Sales by …
#WorkoutWednesday2019 Week 47 – High Level Dashboard with Explain Data Read More
This is a special week for Workout Wednesday, as we are running this challenge live from Tableau Conference in Las Vegas! We’ve put together a challenge this week that is simple enough for someone who is just getting started with Tableau, tricky enough for those further along in their Tableau journey, and a great teaching …
2019 Week 46: Can you build a dynamic scatter plot with proportional brushing? Read More
