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2022 Week 23 | Collab with Preppin Data – Salesforce Opportunities

1 Comment / Power BI, Workout Wednesday / Shannon Lindsay

Introduction Welcome back to Workout Wednesday! This week is our annual collaboration with Preppin’ Data and the Tableau team! This week we’re visualizing Salesforce data – looking at current open opportunities, and trying to distinguish the dollar amount of opportunities due to close this month. This week’s challenge can be done in both Power BI and Tableau, and […]

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2022 Week 22 | Can you switch between KPIs?

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / Spencer Baucke

Introduction Even though May is Tableau Redo month, we took a quick break from the month’s theme last week to check out the amazing new Power BI feature, Field Parameters. The week before last, Kerry Kolosko worked her usual magic to recreate a Tableau dashboard, make sure to check it out here. This week we are

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#WOW2022 Week 22: Can you maintain rank?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / Kyle Yetter

Introduction This week’s challenge was inspired by one of the charts Ann Jackson used in her Advanced Speed Tips session with Lorna Brown. If you had a chance to watch live or virtually, you know it was an awesome session with some great tips and techniques (so if you haven’t seen it yet, you should

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#WOW2022 | 21 | Let’s Build a Trellis Chart!

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / Sean Miller

Introduction Fresh off the heels of #Data22, it’s already time for a new #WOW2022 Tableau challenge! One of my favorite charts is the small multiple. It can be used to show a lot of data in a compact view. Typically, small multiples are used to visualize a single measure with two discrete dimensions. And that’s

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2022 Week 21 | Power BI: Field Parameters

3 Comments / Power BI, Workout Wednesday / Spencer Baucke

Introduction May is Tableau Redo month, so if you haven’t checked out last week’s report by Kerry Kolosko, make sure to check it out here. Most of the challenges this month have been Power BI remakes of previous Tableau Workout Wednesdays, but this week there was a really big release for the newest version of

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#WOW2022 | Week 20 | Monthly Sales vs Target

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / Erica Hughes

Introduction This week is TABLEAU CONFERENCE week! The whole team is in Vegas ready to meet some of you in our live Workout Wednesday Meet-up! As luck would have it, I have the honour of preparing this week’s challenge. For those of you who will be working out with us in person, part of the

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2022 Week 20 | Power BI: Pie Matrix Tableau Redo

7 Comments / Power BI, Workout Wednesday / Kerry Kolosko

Introduction May is Tableau Redo month and this week we will be recreating Tableau #WoW2019 Week 45 by Luke Stanke. Requirements Filter the data up until November 6th, 2021. Create a matrix showing region and last 7 days (up to November 6th, 2021). Create SVG Measures to build a doughnut chart that shows the

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2022 – Week 19: Can you format the dashboard?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / Luke Stanke

Introduction This week the challenge focuses on formatting and your ability to use containers. The goal is to create a near pixel perfect copy of the original. Focus on your use of containers along the way. Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size: 1100px by 850 px 9 sheets About 7 vertical containers

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2022 Week 19 | Power BI: Oh Rats! Tableau Recreation

Power BI, Workout Wednesday / Rob Saunders

Introduction A few week’s ago, Sean Miller created an incredibly slick dashboard showing Rat Sightings in New York since 2010 for week 16 of Tableau’s Workout Wednesday (Challenge Link). The challenge used Hexbins to combine multiple map points into shapes of the same size to show density more clearly within a map. This week, we’re

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#WOW2022 W18 | Tableau : Can you Optimize this?

Tableau, Workout Wednesday / Lorna Brown

Introduction For this week I wanted to focus on a recently release feature. The workbook Optimizer. You will need to use 2022.1. It will give you a list of actions to take to make the workbook better. See if you can make this workbook pass all 12 actions! Requirements Dashboard to maintain the same Use

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