Introduction The 33rd Summer Olympic Games started in Paris last week, so we have an Olympic themed challenge this week, and I hope this is a fun one. When researching ideas, I saw this viz on my colleague, James Newton’s (Twitter|X / Linked In ), Tableau Public profile and thought it would be good fun to …
#WOW2024 | Week 31 | How do you compare against the world’s best 100m runners? Read More
Introduction It’s no surprise that many analysts tend to enjoy looking at data via a scatterplot. It’s a great way to show correlation across two measures for a cohort of dimensions. Additionally, one of the most popular charts of all-time is a line chart which shows historical trends. So how we do show correlation of …
Introduction Tableau 2024.2 has recently released and I was excited to put together a New Features challenge for you all, including the Multi-Fact Relationship model and maybe a Viz Extension or two. While I’ve had a lot of fun diving deep into learning about Multi-Fact Relationships, I pretty quickly encoutered a limitation for incorporating it …
#WOW2024 | Week 29 | Formatting & Intermediate Tableau Charts Read More
Introduction Do you like panel chart? I love it.It is often requested in practical work because it is suitable for getting an overview.This time, I am taking up some of the more challenging requests from past practical work.I believe this will help you level up your panel chart skills, so please enjoy the challenge! Click …
WOW2024 | Week 28 | Can you design a multi-dimensional Panel Chart for detailed analysis? Read More
Introduction One of the perks of my job is that I get to help colleagues solve puzzles that clients throw at them. This is where this came from. Well in fact – the original idea came from a Power BI report, and I wanted to prove it was doable in Tableau. Click to open in …
Introduction I was recently catching up on the Flerlage Twins blog, and came across a post that I had somehow missed from the end of last year about trying to solve a highlighting problem with donut charts when filtering. I read through it, and was surprised that my favorite technique from Yuri Fal didn’t work, …
#WOW2024 | Week 26 | Can you filter from a donut without highlighting the pie? Read More
Introduction What’s up everybody! Thank for checking and taking on the latest #WOW2024 challenge! I’ve got another real-life inspired challenge for you all this week. At times, it can important to show both part-to-whole relationships as well as rank or comparison to each other. We know that there are many ways to accomplish but what …
#WOW2024 | 25 | Can you combine part-to-whole and comparison? Read More
Introduction For this week’s challenge I want to see if you can provide users with the flexibility to choose how they want to display a particular metric – in this case we’re looking at Headcount data, and how it is distributed across different employee attributes. Depending on the question being asked, a particular layout might …
Introduction This challenge started out with one idea which turned into something very different. It’s a little wacky & a little hacky, which I suppose is the essence of these challenges. The main element of this challenge became figuring out how to move a Parameter input box to a different position on the page, based …
#WOW2024 | Week 23 | Manually overwrite a value in a table Read More
Introduction Have you ever been frustrated with unsynchronized scrollbars when placing multiple sheets on a Tableau dashboard? I own a blog about Tableau and can tell you that one of the most frequently viewed posts is about this topic.Ken’s blog post offers several solutions to this issue. A “simple” solution is to combine everything into …
#WOW2024 | Week 22 | Can You Make a Page Navigator? Read More
