What do you do when you have limited real estate? What do you do when vanilla Tableau just isn’t going to cut it? This week’s workout should be a quick exercise designed to give you a few strategies that save on real estate, enable simple interactivity, and promote consistent design throughout your dashboards. This one …
2019 Week 23: Can you get creative with bar charts? Read More
Ohhhh it’s time for some shiny new features! Parameter actions dropped last week and what a hit they have been! People are republishing their work using the new feature! So I hope you’ve had time to practice them a little bit because we’re about to hit the ground running with them! Click to Interact Requirements …
2019 Week 22: X percent of Orders make up X percent of Sales Read More
One of my favorite chart types is a dot plot/strip plot. There’s something really special about dots displayed across a single horizontal or vertical axis. They tend to work really well when you’re showing a lot of data and have the advantage of being able to compare spread and density across different categories within a …
This week Ann and I are doing a live Workout Wednesday for the San Fransisco Bay Area Tableau User Group, so I tried to make sure this challenge can be done in 30 minutes. Challenge Click image to view on Tableau Public Requirements Format: 750px by 850px Create a bar-on-bar chart that shows: A top …
2019 Week 20: Can you show the top and bottom states for total orders Read More
This week we have a guest post from the one and only Andy Kriebel. Andy challenged us to something he created for the DataSchool Gym. What I like about this is it uses Set Actions and Table Calculations! Table Calculations are surely my nemisis. So here goes… Requirements Dashboard size: 850 x 700; maximum …
Have you ever been asked to make a tool that allows end users to dynamically select two periods and compare them? The challenge this week takes inspiration from this all too likely to be asked request. At surface level it can be an easy ask, but how can you add on additional context along with …
2019 Week 18: Let’s Compare Quarterly Sales Performance Read More
A few weeks ago I had this problem: I needed to create a dynamic table that showed the last 12 full months of sales for a particular channel/category of the business but I also needed to show the month-over-month and year-over-year totals. I didn’t know how to do it right away so I asked the …
Week 17: Can you build an automated monthly report Read More
This week we’ll be taking inspiration from a chart you are likely familiar with, Google’s “Is it busy?” chart. This visualization is probably my favorite Google feature, outside of the dinosaur run game of course, so I felt like it was time to turn it into a Workout Wednesday challenge. Can you figure out if …
Sets, Glorious Sets. Was what I tweeted out earlier this week, as I was finishing off my IronViz entry for Europe! Sets and set actions are super powerful and there are so many use cases. This week we take a look at the Tableau Stock market, using the almighty SET ACTIONS, and obviously it includes …
Care to join me on an adventure to the dark side? While it’s true I might not yet have the Sith skills of Curtis when it comes to the dark side, I’ve decided to tip the balance of the force toward the dark this week. The workout this week combines a few concepts inspired by …
2019 Week 14: Can you build a line chart with dynamic highlight and comparison? Read More
