Continuing in line with Ann, I thought it would be great to do another challenge around Set Actions. I’ve used “Cross-Highlighting” in Tableau before, but it required a lot of Data Modelling, and was extremely slow on the Public Servers. But with Set Actions, what use to be a very complicated task, can now be …
At time of writing Tableau 2018.3 was just released. With it comes some brand new features, including the one that’s the focus of this workout: set actions. Sets have long been a feature in Tableau and are responsible for creating dashboard actions, but set actions are something completely new. Set actions allow you to interact with …
Heads up: we are at Tableau Conference and we’ll be delayed on checking Twitter. Also Luke will attempt to live stream via Twitter. Challenge This week we take Workout Wednesday live at Tableau Conference. Click to view on Tableau Public Requirements Create a map and color the overall top, top 5, bottom, bottom 5 states …
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Getting a little bit tricky this week, mostly because I won’t be at TC this year….. 🙁 This week we are going to do some radial mapping in Tableau. While extensions might replace this trick, I think it’s still useful when analyzing locations within N miles of a target location. Requirements This is a tricky …
This week’s workout is designed for the end user looking for immediate insight – think of an executive stakeholder or someone more drawn to quickly getting numbers and results. These folks don’t necessarily have the time to look deeper into the details, but are still craving data in context. To satisfy their requests you’ll be …
Challenge This week you are building something that looks like a text table. But there are a few twists, including the fact you cannot use text as a mark type. click to view on Tableau Public Requirements Use the shape mark type. Do not create a custom mark type that is transparent. Round sales …
Hello Again! This week I am back with a fairly simple challenge, but one that has a few (I believe) useful tricks that could help spice up your next viz. The tricks used here are geared toward design, but have additional benefits. Requirements: Dashboard size: 1000 x 800 Create a Parameters for metrics Sales|Profit|Quantity Create …
One of my absolute favorite things about Tableau is that not only is it a fantastic data display tool, but it is amazing at data exploration and discovery. While you’re in the flow of analysis there are tons of built in features that provide you feedback, awareness, and insight into your data. Everything from displaying …
We’re working on providing different solutions for the rest of the year. While it’s not a guarantee that we’ll have one every week, we want to dispel any myths around the difficulty of the problems. Last week Curtis made a video on how he created the solution. He’s going to do this every week. Curtis …
Challenge This week we’ve partnered with Makeover Monday to examine potential conflict of interest between President Trump’s personal holdings and his campaign staff and government officials using data from Propublica. We’ll also be giving you a few formulas so you can focus on the important parts of the challenge: “stacking” the squares and placing the …
