Introduction This may seem like a seeming normal line and area chart but I said “Why Tableau” numerous times when trying to create it.You want to be able to see the Top X customers per Quarter and what their percentage of total sales is. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 800×800 1 …
#WOW2025 Week 26: Can you create this seemingly simple line chart? Read More »
Introduction Set actions came out almost 7 years ago, and only had about 3 quarters in the spotlight until parameter actions came out. Both are very powerful, but I would venture that most people (myself included) tend to use parameter actions more. So here’s your chance to give Set actions a go. Shortly after Set …
#WOW2025 | Week 25 | Can you make a dynamically highlighting tooltip? Read More »
Introduction In this week’s challenge, we’re going to recreate a very small part of Kathryn McCrindle’s (Linked In / X ) #TC25 Iron Viz. Kathryn is a colleague of mine at Biztory, and made it through to the Iron Viz final at TC25 in San Diego. In 20 minutes, she built this impressive suite of …
Introduction Have I ever talked about how much I love table calcs? They are super powerful and often more performant than the often overused LOD expression. So that’s what we’re going to practice this week. Can you create a control chart only using table calcs? Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements 1 sheet create …
Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by Robbin Vernooij & Lorna Brown’s talk from Tableau Conference this year (TC25) titled ‘Taming the Beast: Normalization Strategies in Tableau’ Normalization allows us to examine the relative importance of values that may be on completely different scales. A common example of where we use normalization is when we …
Introduction This challenge centers on the Drill Down Tree.It was inspired by a real-world request: “Is there an easy way to build one in Tableau?” In the end, the challenge I devised may not be straightforward—but I encourage you to give it a try! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard size: 1000 × …
WOW2025 | Week 21 | Can you make a drill down chart? Read More »
Introduction In this challenge, we will explore the Multi-Fact Relationship Data Model feature introduced in the 2024.2 version. This feature enables us to seamlessly connect and analyze multiple fact tables within a single data source. It’s exciting as a Tableau datasource can behave like a small database! Here are some materials for those who are …
#WOW2025 | Week 20 | Let’s Practice Multi-fact Relationship Data Model Read More »
Introduction Some of you may have seen this challenge as I got my weeks all confused but here we go. Coming fresh off of Tableau Conference and I loved seeing different use cases and tricks. So part of this comes from a tips session with Nhung Lee. And well obviously some additional techniques because I …
#WOW2025 Week 19: Can you create stars & reference lines? Read More »
Introduction I’m so excited to be back for another WOW challenge! Fresh off the heels of Tableau Conference, I’m back in dashboard mode. This week I was faced with an interesting use case that I needed to accomplished and after I did, I knew it would make a great challenge. So here we go! So …
#WOW2025 | Week 18 | Can you Filter or Drill to Details? Read More »
Introduction For this week’s challenge, I’m showcasing a variety of features using data based on the English Premier League once again. Measure switching is the primary focus for this challenge, which is something many #WOW challenges have used in the past. But you may be new to the #WOW project this year, so it’s always …
