Earlier in the month Luke Stanke asked if I would write a guest post and workout. As someone who completed all 52 workouts in 2017, the answer was obviously YES! This week I thought I’d take heavy influence from a neat little chart made to accompany Makeover Monday (w36y2017) – the Frequency Matrix. I call it a Frequency Matrix, …
This week we are changing things up and looking at a few different Tableau Features. While we all love data visualization, and dashboards, we can still find ourselves trying to slowly push the Excel users. In these cases, we find it helps to give them Tables, with some visual/interactive elements. Requirements Dashboard size should …
Luke is out for the next month so this week 2016 IronViz Champion Curtis Harris is filling in. Here is Curtis’s post: I’ve heard this question many times in my career after presenting a completed viz to a stakeholder at work, “That’s fantastic, but compared to what?” So even if it is not directly requested, …
Week 12: Sub-Category Sales Change in the Last Two Periods Read More
In honor of Tableau 10.5 CHAR() function finally supporting extended Unicode Characters (don’t know why this wasn’t in the feature release…..), I decided to have some more fun with text. Requirements Create 1 sheet with a Small Multiple of 20X5 Grids for each Sub-Category in Office Supplies The percent of Total segment starts from …
Below is a chart built for #WorkoutWednesday. It seems to have thrown people off a bit. Just as a reminder here are the requirements: Use sales for 2017. The size of the dashboard 500px x 600px. If you think of the segments as a clock, Week 1 should be at the 12:00 position. The weeks …
Below is an abstract view of superstore sales by week for 2017. Each set of three lines are the percent of sales by segment for that week. The lines are equally spaced based on the percent of the year complete. There is also a nice space between each of the line segments for each week. …
This week we are going to be working with Dashboard Highlighting, and a bit of experimentation. Requirements Show the difference between White and Minority Players as a percent of Total Players by year Shade the Area between the two lines Grey When hovering over a year, the labels for White and Minority players will …
This week we take a look at chart that looks so simple: the number of births by year for any given name. There are few requirements that make this much more tricky. While the dataset is huge, I’d like you to show one name: whatever name you see in the parameter. When the parameter is …
This week we will be looking at Sub-Category Sales by Month, and creating a highlight table of which sub-categories were the Max and Min Sales in that Month. Requirements Sub-Categories are sorted in Descending order by Total Sales in the Year Each Month will Highlight the MIN Sales in Red, Max Sales in Blue. Pay …
This week you will need to use your formatting skills and your knowledge with formatting color. You’ll also be using using the rarely-utilized hierarchy on this dashboard and you’ll need to utilize the “+” and “-” to drill in and out of the hierarchy. Below are images and check out the version on Tableau Public …
#WorkoutWednesday – Week 6: Regional Sales Across the Product Hierarchy Read More
