Introduction This week’s challenge is provided by Guest Contributor Ben Ferry aka Power BI Guy. Requirements Power Query Transform data (hint unpivot and reduce the number of columns) Load Data Power BI Desktop Create a Measure for the Sum of the values column Create a measure to rank the characters based on the measure you …
2023 Week 17 | Power BI: Peaches’ Parameters and Bowser’s Bookmarks Read More
Introduction For the last week of Community Month, I’m thrilled to introduce you to my colleague at Biztory, Nik Eveleigh (@MrEvilEye). I’ve known Nik virtually through our shared love of #WOW for around 3 years. After he returned to the UK from South Africa at the end of last year, I was delighted to learn …
This week’s challenge is to enhance a Superstore text table, inspired by Luke Stanke’s 26 Ways to Enhance your Tables in Tableau and Sam Parsons’s amazing Super Advanced Tableau Tables.
Introduction It’s Community Month once again here at #WOW2023 which means we have a guest coach. I wanted to use this opportunity to connect with our global community. Without a doubt, the most active group of challenge participants I see on Twitter, beyond those in anglophone countries, are the #DataSaber community based in Japan. I …
#WOW2023 | Week 15 | Can you create Digital Signage with Tableau? Read More
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re using a Makeover Monday dataset that was inspired by Andy Kriebel’s post on Twitter (dataviz inception!). Andy has been working through Makeover Monday challenges in Power BI, and I thought it would be a good opportunity for us to do some of these together! This week’s challenge uses what-if parameters, a …
2023 Week 15 | Power BI: What-if parameters inspired by Makeover Monday Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by recent Twitter activities. We are creating a word cloud containing common misspellings in the US. Requirements Power Query Obtain the dataset from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11357183/Google-search-data-reveals-commonly-misspelled-words-spell-correctly.html OR https://github.com/kolky001/Workout-Wednesday-2023/blob/main/Misspellings Transform and load data HINT : Add Index column, create modulo column, unpivot data Power BI Desktop Obtain Word Cloud custom visual from …
Introduction This week we are going to explore embedding dashboards within a Salesforce record page and apply a filter to make the insights contextual to the account you are viewing. Requirements Create a simple recipe: Bring in the Account Object – ensure the Account ID Field is included Bring in the Case Object – ensure …
2023 Week 14 | Embedding CRM Analytics Dashboards in Salesforce Read More
Introduction Welcome to community month for 2023. Each year since 2018 we’ve hosted a community month–where we invite different people from the Tableau Community. This year I wanted to invite someone who has been a prolific supporter of the data visualization community but hasn’t been recognized by Tableau as an Ambassador or Visionary for his …
2023 Week 14: How short are baseball games in 2023? Read More
Introduction This week we are focusing on one of the newest features in Tableau 2023.1, Dynamic Axis Titles. This is something we have all been waiting for and it’s such an easy thing to do now. But obviously it’s not going to be as simple as that, it also contains small multiples! Have fun! Click …
#WOW2023 Week 13: Can you use dynamic axis titles? Read More
Introduction Hello and welcome to WoW week 12! This weeks challenge will be short & sweet from a requirements perspective but will hopefully provide valuable insights to help you optimize your data sync cycle. Tip… check out the Tips section! Requirements Navigate to the dataset created in a previous exercise, or create a new one …
