Introduction Features and functionality on using Tableau and Tableau Public are ever growing. I believe we as WOW have never done this particular object before. Did you know that Tableau has an Extension Gallery? But also did you know that some of the extensions work on Tableau Public? I never thought about using Extensions on […]
2020 Week 7 | Tableau : Can you use Dashboard Extensions? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This month I’ve decided to focus on something you’ve rarely ever seen from me – a good old fashioned text table. This challenge should be straightforward for users of all levels. And of course since I try to avoid plain text tables, this one has some fancy formatting thrown in for good measure. There
2021 Week 6 | Tableau: Can you build a Fancy Text Table? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For this week’s challenge, we wanted to hit two birds with one stone: try out a new feature from the Tableau 2020.4 and celebrate Black History Month with an interesting dataset on Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Predictions, table calculations, and parameter actions…oh my! Consider this a feature sampler, building on some previous
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Hot off the presses of 2020.4, Tableau has introduced map layers. Check out this challenge to learn how to build maps in Tableau with multiple map layers
Introduction Is it too late now to start the post with Happy New Year? Well it’s my first Workout of the year so Happy New Year everyone, it’s really great to be back for my third year! After completing the first two workouts from this year (because I suck at Table Calculations), I wanted to
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Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This year we’ve made a commitment to start with the basics and build, so this challenge is designed to do just that. This week, you’ll be constructing a Customer Lifetime Value Matrix (CLTV). This viz is frequently used in marketing and retail industries to understand the value of each customer. Specifically, the interesting insights
2021 Week 2 | Tableau : Can you build a Customer Lifetime Value Matrix? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction For the longest time, I avoided table calculations as much as I could because I thought they were overly complicated (compute using…relative to…sort by…nested…ughhhh) especially when I had LODs in my back pocket. But, over time, I’ve made my peace with them (dare I say, a fan now) as I recognized how powerful they
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Tableau, Uncategorized, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Brad Werner is responsible for this week’s Workout Wednesday Challenge. Here are all the details in Brad’s own words: I have a confession. When I first started using Tableau, I was a strict advocate for #TeamFloating. Yes, I used to float ALL objects on my Tableau dashboards. I would decide on a dashboard layout
2020 Week 53: Can you build with containers? Read More »
community, Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction It feels like it has been a very long time since my last Workout Wednesday, but here I am with my last one of the year. I thought we would have a little bit of fun with some Christmas Songs Data. The data contains top 200 songs everyday from 31/10 to 31/12. This currently
2020 Week 52: How many Christmas Songs? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This is my last Workout Wednesday for 2020 (don’t worry, I’ll be back in 2021!), so I thought I’d take it easy on everyone. This week you’ll be building a single chart – a divergent histogram. I first saw a divergent histogram via the Economist almost 3 years ago and tagged it as a
2020 Week 51: Can you build a Divergent Histogram? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday