Introduction Hello again, everyone. One of the things that CRM Analytics misses in its variety of charts is a histogram. A histogram is a chart that displays the frequency (count) of rows within a range of numeric values. For example: you have opportunity records with several amounts (2500,3000,5000.8750.10000, etc). In a histogram, we’d create a …
Introduction It’s already week 7 of our #WorkoutWednesday challenges (whoa, time flies…). In this challenge, I’d like to explore one aspect of the column multi-selection interaction in CRM Analytics: sorting. When we select more than 1 grouping, can we maintain the sorting within the selected groups, regardless of the selection’s order? We’ll find out in …
2022 has gone so quick, like every other year prior, but the years do seem to be getting quicker. I just wanted to write a quick blog on achievements this year! As with every year we will have published 104 Workout Wednesdays between Tableau & PowerBI, I am extremely grateful for all of our contributors …
Introduction Man, sometimes the #datafam is just so very inspiring. I recently saw this tweet by Visionary, Klaus Schulte, this week and immediately knew I wanted to make a challenge out of it. The premise is quite simple – make a tile map but also add the state outline to further assist readers to where …
I love puzzles, it’s the reason I love #WorkoutWednesday and have since it began in 2017. This week we’re tackling a recent puzzle I was confronted with. Let’s count the number of consecutive weeks with more sales than the week before. Can you solve it?
Introduction For the longest time, I avoided table calculations as much as I could because I thought they were overly complicated (compute using…relative to…sort by…nested…ughhhh) especially when I had LODs in my back pocket. But, over time, I’ve made my peace with them (dare I say, a fan now) as I recognized how powerful they …
2021 Week 1: Can You Find the Variance Along the Line? Read More
Well, it’s the end of 2020. It’s been a tough year for everyone. We know this for so many reasons. And it’s reflected participation rates (and page rates) of Workout Wednesday challenges. If you dive into the Workout Wednesday metrics, you can see that our overall page views were stagnant–and the dive directly tied to …
Introduction Hi friends! Well, it’s been a quarter since my last challenge so you know what that means, it means we’ve got a new version of Tableau to check out! A couple weeks ago, 2020.3 was released and with it came a whole host of new awesome features and functionality! As always, #WOW2020 is here …
Introduction This week I wanted to post a WOW challenge derived from a chart I’ve been reporting on for the past 7 months: a cartogram of states showing rolling-seven day average of new COVID-19 cases by state. For this challenge you will use data from Tableau’s COVID-19 Data Hub. I picked this challenge because working …
Twenty-nineteen is nearly in the books! This year we produced fifty-two fantastic challenges with varying degrees of difficulty. None of these challenges could have been successful without your participation! Regardless of difficulty we focused the challenges on learning particular tips or tricks from the tool. Along the way we’ve seen the community grow and evolve …
Workout Wednesday: Where we are and where we are headed in 2020 Read More
