Introduction This week’s challenge uses a custom visual to achieve some formatting that cannot currently (as of March 2024) be achieved using core visuals. First, we have a table that contains 2 columns and no headers. Next, we have some contact cards that contain both an image and text. The catch is that the number […]
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Introduction I’ve had clients requesting stacked bars in various formats lately, so this challenge is timely. Stacked bars are used as a way to show part-to-whole relationship while also showing totals. The weakness of stacked bars is similar to that of the dreaded pie chart. Too many segments become confusing when trending a stacked column,
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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week we’re taking notes out of Injae Park’s portfolio and recreating one of his IBCS charts. IBCS, or the International Business Communication Standards is a set of rules to level up how businesses talk and share info. Think of it as a cheat code for clearer charts and
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Introduction Welcome to Week Eleven! This week, you’re going to learn about Sigma’s Subtotal, PercentOfTotal, and GrandTotal functions. I find these functions particularly useful in adding context to ToolTips or Pivot tables. In this challenge, you will explore the various types of subtotaling functions. As you work through this challenge, think about the story the different
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Introduction I may have gotten a little overexcited with this challenge by combining TWO problems that some of my colleagues came up against recently when trying to solve problems for their clients. That being said, this week’s challenge should be a good workout. Since the challenge applies some more advanced calculations, I have broken down
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Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week’s challenge is for folks who want to practice building reports that do have calculations but do not use complex DAX! I also had a little fun with Microsoft Designer for the images. If you haven’t had a chance to play around with this new AI design tool
2024 Week 10 | Power BI: DAX-less Reporting! Read More »
Introduction This week’s challenge is going to be longer than usual, mostly because I wanted to showcase dark mode along with a combo chart. If you’re not familiar with what a combo chart is, it can represent multiple columns using different shapes. Bars, lines, areas, and points are all fair game in a combo chart,
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Introduction Hello there! I’m Yoshi and I joined the WOW Tableau coach team this year.I’ve been participating in the WOW challenges since 2020, so I am really honored to be one of the coaches. Here’s my first challenge for you: let’s practice datetime calculations and data densifications. This week, we deal with dummy data regarding
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Introduction This week have a guest author! Tausif Kazi is an expert in data visualization who is experienced in several platforms such as Sigma, Power BI, Tableau, and Snowflake. Connect with Tausif:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tausifkazi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/VizByTK This challenge will cover how to create a Bar chart in Pivot Tables. This will help your users quickly understand the
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Introduction Almost the end of February! Time flies fast! – And another WoW Challenge is here!! This week is based on the same dataset and maps we had as a challenge during Week 4! The changes are adding one KPI, and one top 5 chart to the existing dashboard. Then add an Interaction (not binding)
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