Introduction This week for Workout Wednesday we are getting familiar with the PlotlyJS visual by creating traces and annotations for a connected scatterplot. Connected scatterplots are a cross between a scatterplot and a lineplot whereby two numeric variables are connected by a third ordered variable (often time). The below graph created with the …
2022 Week 31 | Power BI: Connected Scatter with PlotlyJS Read More »
Introduction In Power BI, you are able to create mobile views for every desktop report. This is especially useful if you have users access the reports through the Power BI app on an iOS or Android device. This week’s challenge is to develop a mobile view of the Covid-19 tracking sample for US state and …
Introduction I’ve been wanting to create this challenge for some time, so I’m really glad to finally be releasing it. This challenge was inspired by some work I did last year where a client wanted to be able to visualize the number of hours that their team had spent working on different projects. What made …
Introduction Working with financial data is hard. There are some calculations that make for long evenings to get right. One of those calculations is Time-Weighted Return. This challenge is simple: calculate the Time-Weighted Return Rate for a simple data source and return a line chart. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 400px …
2022 – Week 29: What is the Time-Weighted Return? Read More »
Introduction This week, we are taking a look at a lesser used visualization type called a stream graph. Stream graphs are similar to a stacked area chart, but they have values displaced around a central axis rather than stacking on top of an axis. They have received criticism in the past for being difficult to …
Introduction This week my challenge comes from two places of inspiration. Firstly the ONS website and secondly a final interview for someone applying to the Data School. I loved the concept of the chart and it helps with context and also synchronisation of axis. Have fun. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 800 …
Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! If you’re joining us for the first time, welcome! We present you with a challenge, a dataset to recreate the challenge, and a solution video or file. You can use these challenges to build your skills and your portfolio! This week we’re exploring the error bars feature in Power …
Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by one of the dashboards in The Big Book of Dashboards, by Steve Wexler, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Andy Cotgreave. If you’re not familiar with it, the BBOD is a tremendous resource of tools and concepts you can apply to real world business scenarios, and you can learn more at …
Introduction If you weren’t aware, June was Music Month and Kerry Kolosko gave us a brilliant visualization of Beatles tunes using Charticulator – you can check out the challenge here. This week we are going to be recreating a recent Tableau challenge from Sean Miller that was featured in Week 11 of this year’s Tableau …
Introduction Welcome to week 26 – the halfway mark of 2022! This week is pretty straightforward; how simple it will be is up to you 😀 I’ve always really liked using the relative date filter in Tableau but one thing that’s always irked me is that the anchor date is not dynamic – neither end-user …
#WOW2022 | 26 | Let’s make a dynamic relative filter Read More »
