Introduction This month we hold Global Community Weeks! We’ll feature guest coaches from around the world in the coming weeks. I’m excited and honored to introduce Tomoki Goda (@padawan_viz) from Japan! Tomoki is relatively new to Tableau but is strongly passionate about Tableau community activities. He is one of the co-hosts of a popular Japan …
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Introduction A bump chart shows changes in rank over time. This week, inspired by a visual from Statista Charts, we are making a bump chart of the countries with the highest GDP in 3 selected years. The example below uses a ribbon chart core visual to create the bump chart, but you are welcome to use …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! I’m nearing the end of my 4th year contributing to this incredible initiative, and quite honestly, I am running out of ideas! This week I went to the Fabric Data Stories Gallery to look at reports that have inspired me, and I was reminded of this incredible report that Jason Thomas …
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Introduction Welcome to Week Forty-Four! This week, I wanted to have a little fun because not only is Thursday Halloween, but it’s also my birthday. As someone who loves data and shares her birthday with a holiday, I am interested to see just how common holiday birthdays are. In this challenge, you will use a couple …
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Introduction This week we’re working with some spatial data. I have a project at work where we’re finding the number of records (points) that are within a geospatial area (polygon), so we’ll try that this week. We’ll use public school district boundaries (polygons) and school locations (points) to find the number of schools in each …
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Introduction This week’s challenge is to test your data storytelling skills and enhance a line chart of service desk survey responses to focus attention on important aspects. No solution file provided this week. Requirements Obtain the data Model Data Create a chart showing survey response trends Dataset This week’s dataset is downloadable from Github https://github.com/kolky001/Workout-Wednesday-2023/blob/main/Help%20Desk.xlsx …
Introduction This week, I wanted to highlight Sigma’s actions once again, as we got a new update a last week: The ability to change date controls via actions! Pairing this new feature with the ‘Conditions’ beta feature in actions, we can create more user-friendly date filtering with much less hassle. Stay up to date on changes to …
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Introduction Hello #WOW enthusiasts, I’m Hannah, a data analyst consultant at The Information Lab. This week’s challenge is inspired by a client project I did recently, where I was trying to recreate a specific visual from a different software. I thought I could save you the headache if this kind of problem ever crossed your …
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Introduction Welcome to Week 42! This week we’ll look at an easy way to compare data year over year, whether we are using a line chart visualization or a pivot table to view our data. There are many ways to acheive similar results, this is just one! Feel free to play around with other ways …
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Introduction Scatterplots are one of the most useful visual chart types for data exploration. You can use them to identify relationships among two or more variables, find clusters of data, encode data in several ways for communicating insights etc. This is especially useful when working with large datasets. In this WoW challenge, our goal is to use marker …
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