If your schedule is anything like mine, then you’re probably enjoying the summer months – using vacation time, nicer weather, summer holidays, and a generally more relaxed schedule. To help keep that vibe going, this week I’m challenging you to a very straightforward build. This is an extremely simplified version of something I recently built …
Last week we were putting together a deck for an executive team and we wanted to show the seasonality of data while still showing the overall average. In our time crunch we came up with our challenge for this week!p Challenge – Intermediate Click image to view on Tableau Public Requirements – Intermediate Format: 900px …
2019 Week 29: Which months do we see a higher number of orders? Read More
I recently came across a material design style guide for data visualization, and wanted to try some of the concepts. Google has many design guides based on their material design concept, but none related to data visualization until just recently. These style guides are great for getting new ideas, just make sure you don’t get …
How often do you think about scale? Making sure my dashboards scale over time is one of my top priorities whenever I start a new project, so this week’s Workout Wednesday is going to be focused on building a solution that will scale combined with standard KPI views. I’ve been asked to build KPI views …
Last week I was lucky enough to spend some time in Berlin attending Tableau Conference Europe. Coming off the heels of the conference I was struck by the three components the Tableau team was sharing in terms of new features and development. They shared components focused on 1) Making Analytics for Everyone 2) Analytics at …
This week we are live at TCE, and we are focusing on some new features. Requirements Format: 800px by 800px Create KPI stats which include Sales, Profit, Profit Ratio, Discount and Quantity for the latest year Create a YoY change from the latest year to the previous year, with an up down arrow depending on …
This week you need to build this side-by-side bar chart. There are a couple of tricks but you should be able to do this in under 30 minutes (for real!). There are at least 4 ways to solve this problem. There are also two problems an intermediate and an advanced. Challenge – Intermediate Click image …
2019 Week 24: Can you build a side-by-side bar chart? Read More
What do you do when you have limited real estate? What do you do when vanilla Tableau just isn’t going to cut it? This week’s workout should be a quick exercise designed to give you a few strategies that save on real estate, enable simple interactivity, and promote consistent design throughout your dashboards. This one …
2019 Week 23: Can you get creative with bar charts? Read More
Ohhhh it’s time for some shiny new features! Parameter actions dropped last week and what a hit they have been! People are republishing their work using the new feature! So I hope you’ve had time to practice them a little bit because we’re about to hit the ground running with them! Click to Interact Requirements …
2019 Week 22: X percent of Orders make up X percent of Sales Read More
One of my favorite chart types is a dot plot/strip plot. There’s something really special about dots displayed across a single horizontal or vertical axis. They tend to work really well when you’re showing a lot of data and have the advantage of being able to compare spread and density across different categories within a …
