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 …
Hello again everyone! This week we are looking to add Reference Bands to our Scatter Plots in order to “group” together like items. Looking at NBA Players Total Games and Points spread. Requirements: Dashboard size 920 x 825 Players are grouped into 5 bins by Avg Points per Game 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29 and 30-34+ …
We’re wrapping up our month of Community submissions with a workout submitted by Zen Master Neil Richards. A great way to end an awesome month facilitated by so many members of the Workout Wednesday community. We’ve definitely been inspired and challenged by your contributions and impressed with the support you’ve given to those completing your …
This week we’re visualizing conflict data provided by ACLED. ACLED, which stands for Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, is a “disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project.” You’ll notice throughout the Tableau Community this week that there are several partner projects going on – all designed to provide awareness on ACLED’s cause. …
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August Community Submission Month Welcome to community submission month. For all 5 of those weeks we’ll have our favorite community submissions as challenges. FYI: You can still submit here. Community Submission Challenge #3: Donna Coles Donna is located in Didcot, Oxfordshire in the UK. She is a Business Analyst for RM Education and …
August Community Submission Month Welcome to community submission month. For all 5 of those weeks we’ll have our favorite community submissions as challenges. FYI: You can still submit here. Community Submission Challenge #2: Rosario Irasema Gauna González Our second community challenge comes from Rosario Irasema Gauna González. Rosario is located in Monterrey, Nuevo …
August Community Submission Month Welcome to community submission month. For all 5 of those weeks we’ll have our favorite community submissions as challenges. FYI: You can still submit here. Community Submission Challenge #1: Sean Miller Our first community challenge comes from Sean Miller. Sean is located in Kansas City, Missouri in the United …
This week’s workout is all about finding signals or patterns in data, specifically using run charts (aka line charts). Variance over time is one of the most common ways to understand a process and often when we’re visualizing the data we use data summarization tools like the mean (average) or median to help aid in …
