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
Introduction This week I wanted to do something spatial related, so I challenged Olivier Newman, one of our Data School Consultants, to build me a challenge. I am breaking his challenge into two weeks. The first being this one. Can you rebuild this tube map? Ideally you will need 1 parameter and 1 set and …
#WOW2024 | Week 21 | Can you rebuild this tube map? Read More
Introduction A couple weeks ago while standing in line for Ken and Kevin Flerlage’s session at Tableau Conference, I had a conversation with the woman next to me that led to something like “what is something you’re trying to solve right now?” Her response was that her boss wanted to have something of a stoplight …
#WOW2024 | Week 20 | Can you combine categorical and sequential colors in the same chart? Read More
Introduction So this week follows on from my previous challenge in week 13 here. Feel free to either recreate completely from scratch or use my/your own original solution to build on (my solution for week 13 is here and my solution guide is here). Having built a segmented bar chart, we are now going to …
#WOW2024 | Week 19 | Can you expand this segmented bar chart? Read More
Introduction Welcome to week 18 and this week’s challenge. This is a special challenge as it is the challenge that coincides with Tableau conference and #Data24! This week your challenge is to analyze sleep survey data and build a marimekko chart in Tableau! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements size: 1000×800 the x axis …
