Introduction This week I wanted to share a challenge that comes from a chat that I had with Zach Bowders near the beginning of the year. Zach was shared a step-ranking visualization he was putting together and I really thought it was a great iteration of the chart type. While there have ben step-ranking charts […]
Week 5: Where do regions rank month-to-month? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Well here we are! My first week as an “official” contributor of #WorkoutWednesday! I’m so excited to share my three (3) challenges with you so let’s get to it with the first one. In my day to day life at Cerner, I build analytics that cast a wide net of user personas with all
Week 04: Can you combine relative and custom dates? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction This week, I wanted to take a look at how people could visualise time in a unique way. My idea around this is planning. Looking at time in this manner allows people to look at workload / order load etc and see where was most and least popular, which will allow planning for the
Week 3: Can you visualise time in a unique way? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction Happy New Year! I’m excited to be back for yet another year of Workout Wednesday. This year we’ve expanded the team and made a commitment to the community to provide solution videos. We’ve also got some great collaborations lined up, and a few exciting enhancements to come (custom color palette anyone?)! To get the
2020 Week 2: Can you build a beautiful and dynamic bar chart? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Introduction We’re back in 2020 with a whole new set of challenges. This month you’ll see challenges from Lorna, Ann, Sean, and myself. I’m starting this year off with a bar chart/data table because in our day-to-day we are always looking for a way to spice up our charts. To spice up these charts we
Week 1: Can you sort dimensions with a single click? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
I feel completely honored to have spent a year working with Ann, Lorna, and Luke on this amazing project. I truly believe that Workout Wednesday is simply one of the best ways to skill up in Tableau, and if you regularly participate, you’ll quickly find yourself surpassing others in your profession and setting yourself apart
2019 Week 52: Can you visualize ones and zeros? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
I thought I would end the year with a simple Sales Performance dashboard. It is a recreation from Pradeep Kumar G‘s viz. What I love about this viz is how simplistic it looks and sticking with a “Brand”. This week, we create something similar, keeping it simplistic and on “Brand” Requirements Dashboard 1000 x 800
#WorkoutWednesday2019 Week 51 – Sales Performance Dashboard Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
Let’s take a break from Superstore this week! I’ve fabricated some new data that will help us create a more realistic view of customer retention, you can connect to the data via the Google Sheet connector at this link. This data set has one row per order week and customer ID, representing said customer placed
2019 Week 50: Can you build a retention heat map with a marginal histogram? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
How much information have you retained from Tableau Conference 2019? Are you still watching session videos (like I am?). This challenge is an homage to the amazing conference from this year. The challenge comes from something I encountered in a recent work situation. The end-user wanted to be able to automatically group together small contributing
Week 48: Can you build a Bar Chart that automatically combines small contributions? Read More »
Tableau, Workout Wednesday
