Workout Wednesday

This week’s #WorkoutWednesday idea comes from creating a product portfolio. The customer wanted to see how much a product has grown and what it’s market share was. We are going to recreate the BCG Growth-Share Matrix for our superstore sub categories and manufacturers. “The BCG Growth-Share Matrix is a portfolio planning model developed by Bruce …

Week 39: Can you create a BCG growth share matrix with Sales and Orders? Read More

This week we are making bar charts. Of course, this week there is a small twist to the bar charts. The ends of the bar charts need to be rounded. There are several ways to do this. I’d personally suggest unioning the data to itself–but like I said, there is more than one way to …

2019 Week 37: What percent of sales is from the east region? Read More

In the final week of the community challengers we have Rosario Guana. She is a Tableau Ambassador and a Tableau Zen Master. Rosario has been championing WorkoutWednesday since day 1, she writes blog posts about solutions and other tips and tricks in both English and Spanish. When Tableau 2019.2 was launched, I soon found myself testing …

Week 35: Drill Down & Up on Sales with Subtotals using Parameter Actions Read More

We’re in week 3 of Community Contributor Month.  This week’s challenge is brought to us by Jeffrey Shaffer.  Jeffrey is a 4 time Tableau Zen Master, co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards, and maintains several websites (including must-bookmark TableauReferenceGuide.com). So where did the challenge come from?  Here it is in Jeff’s own words: This …

Week 34: Can You Build a Top N Bar Chart on a Single Worksheet? Read More

This week are excited to continue the community challenge month by welcoming Corey Jones. Based out of Philadelphia, Corey was a 2018 IronViz Finalist and is an avid sports fan. One of the great things that comes with working with a talented team is that you have the opportunity to learn from and push each …

2019 Week 33: 2018 IronViz Finalist Corey Jones’s Table Challenge Read More

This week, alongside WorkoutWednesday we have a new collaboration, which gives you a chance to try out another community project,  #PreppinData. PreppinData is a like workoutwednesday but with Tableau Prep Builder. Each week they give you a messy data set, some requirements and a finished data set, you then have to use Tableau Prep Builder …

2019 Week 31: When #WorkoutWednesday meets #PreppinData? Can you create a Hub and Spoke map? Read More

If your schedule is anything like mine, then you’re probably enjoying the summer months – using vacation time, nicer weather, summer holidays, and a generally more relaxed schedule.  To help keep that vibe going, this week I’m challenging you to a very straightforward build.  This is an extremely simplified version of something I recently built …

Week 30: Creating a Navigating KPI Block Read More