This week’s challenge is plucked directly from #IronQuest. If you’re not aware of what #IronQuest is, it’s a monthly challenge during the off season of Tableau Public’s Iron Viz feeder contest. It’s run by Sarah Bartlett and each month a different theme is chosen. Participants are allowed to submit for feedback (the idea is to …
2019 Week 10: How Has Our Profit Ratio Changed Nationally? Read More
When I started Workout Wednesday I made a list of potential challenges. This challenge was the second challenge I wrote down. After more than 20 challenges I’ve finally gotten around to sharing it! Challenge Click to view on Tableau Public Requirements Format: 1000px by 600px Create a visualization with bar charts that show total sales, …
For this week’s workout, we look at one of my favorite chart types, the pareto. I love the pareto chart as a data exploration resource, and also as a powerful analytic resource. If you aren’t familiar with the pareto, the purpose is to see what % of x, makes up what % of y, with …
2019 Week 8: What percentage of products make up 80% of sales? Read More
Valentine’s Day is officially tomorrow. This data set looks at percentage of people buying a particular gift. This week I wanted to focus in on building a few things; using the button functionality, sheet swapping and finally a radar chart (because why not). Many Many people have been waiting for the button functionality and I …
2019 Week 7: What gifts do people plan on spending money on? Read More
Those of you who know me well know that I like to create visualizations that include both detail and aggregate in the same view. I have a particular interest in showing how the smaller components contribute to the overall. When there’s one major chart on a dashboard I think it works out particularly well – …
I recently put together this chart for work. I spent more time making it amazing than I am willing to admit, this is mostly due to the amount of formatting I did. I thought I’d make a formatting challenge this week! Challenge Click to view on Tableau Public Requirements Format: 540px by 800px Create a …
Hello and welcome to week 4 of Workout Wednesday 2019, and my first contribution as an official team member! This week’s challenge should be on the easier side, and forces us to think a little bit about data prep, before we get to producing our Workout Wednesday visualization. I was recently challenged at work to …
I am super happy that I have joined the team for Workout Wednesday and I am ready to set you some challenges. Sometimes people struggle using text only files. This week’s challenge will, hopefully, give you some ideas on how to use text only files. Some of you may know that I am a big Rugby …
Happy New Year! It’s time for my first Workout Wednesday of 2019 and I hope you’re ready for a challenge. This week I’ve decided to take inspiration from a trick or two from past workouts and combine them with some recent work I’ve been doing. To be more specific, one thing about Tableau that I …
We’re back for 2019. We’re using the hashtag #WorkoutWednesday2019. The challenge this week involves building a dynamic drill-down table. This one is slightly more difficult than average so be sure to check the spoilers at the very bottom if need be. Challenge Click to view on Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard size is 500px …
