He’s back again! Andy Kriebel shares with a problem that you can only use table calculations to solve Requirements Use only table calculations The bar length is the total sales of each state City must be included in the view. Display only one mark per state. Label each bar by the city with the highest …
Week 22: Which city contributes the most sales to each state? Read More
This week’s Workout Wednesday is an emoji map. The original idea comes from a Dark Sky emoji map of the weather. This worksheet has several major elements you’ll have to work through: Data modeling Percentiles Hex bins of geospatial data Working with emojis Customized “legend” Requirements Dashboard size: 600 x 600, 2 sheets (floating and …
This week I was cleaning up my desk and found some old notes where I had been jotting down ideas around visualizing distributions. At the time I was working with a data set where data points were concentrated around specific numbers and I was exploring ways to visually capture the concentration. I love looking at …
I’m back! This week we are going to be doing something simple, but has really great benefits. Often, when we share Tableau Public visualizations online and use “showVizHome=no” in the url, we get a viz that is in the Top Left Corner of our monitor. It doesn’t really look right being over there, we would …
If you’ve ever worked with web Google Analytics then you’ve probably seen the cohort analysis chart. To me its the coolest information provided. This week were back with an intermediate and jedi options. Both look basically the same but the jedi forces your thinking to a higher level! Intermediate Build a cohort analysis heat …
What better way to celebrate the release of step lines and jump lines in Tableau Desktop with a workout aimed at doing them the hard way? Using alternative line charts can be a great way to have more meaningful visual displays of not-so-continuous information. Or continuous information where it may not be best to display …
Sorry for the late post. I’m filling in this week at the last minute. Here is this weeks workout. click to view on Tableau Public Dashboard size is 700 x 600; tiled; 1 sheet Use a date parameter to select a select end date, limit it to all days in 2017. Use a parameter …
Workout Wednesday – Week 16: Sales for the last N vs. same time previous year Read More
Let’s take a closer look at this week’s intermediate problem. click to view on Tableau Public Requirements: Dashboard size is 850 x 600; tiled; 1 sheet Each member of the pictogram is a distinct product name. Each row in the pictogram has 10 members. Members of each new row are included from left-to-right. Sort …
I’m back from a one month hiatus! Hopefully you enjoyed the guest posts from Curtis Harris and Ann Jackson. This week were giving you two options: Intermediate or Jedi. Both are a play on an olympics visualization I put together a month ago. The Intermediate requires just a handful of calculations. The Jedi looks just …
Week 15: Total Products by Sub-Category OR Top 5 Sub-Categories by Total Product Read More
Earlier in the month Luke Stanke asked if I would write a guest post and workout. As someone who completed all 52 workouts in 2017, the answer was obviously YES! This week I thought I’d take heavy influence from a neat little chart made to accompany Makeover Monday (w36y2017) – the Frequency Matrix. I call it a Frequency Matrix, …
