Introduction This weeks challenges come from a fellow Data School Coach, Robbin Vernooij. He created this back in 2019, but I thought it was a pretty cool dashboard and gets you to think about Sets in a good way! Click to open in Tableau Public Requirements Dashboard Size 1000×800 Connect the data together You can …
#WOW2024 W49: Can you create a scatter plot investigation? Read More
Introduction This weeks challenge came to me through a Data School consultant trying to figure something out. We figured for their workbook it would take a full rebuild, but it gave me inspiration to try and do it from scratch. So today I present to you a KPI dashboard, where you can only pick a …
#WOW2023 Week 37: SDG Goals showing a maximum of 6 Read More
Introduction This week we have a special guest, Venkatesh Iyer. Venkatesh is currently a Senior Analytics Consultant at phData–and has recently written a number of blogs that bring novel solutions to the community, including: How to improve the performance of count distinct How to Create a Drill Down Table in Tableau How to paginate in …
2023 Week 32: Can you show all values when filtering? Read More
Introduction To round out my beginner #WOW2021 series and as a nod to the most wonderful time of the year (#TC…duh), I wanted to re-imagine a couple of blasts from the Tableau Conference past…so while no points for originality here, my hope is that the principles of these tricks of the trade will help reduce …
Introduction The ability to efficiently find the proverbial needle in a haystack is worth its weight in gold. How many times has a key stakeholder asked you to give them a shortlist of products (insert the focus of your analysis) to focus on for business improvement/optimization opportunities…and they’ve asked you to get back to them …
2021 Week 31: Can You Find the Needle in the Haystack? Read More
Introduction This week’s challenge is pulled directly from a work challenge I encountered recently. The ask was to build a filtering system that would allow the user to initially filter data and then add a secondary requirement of inclusion. Using the Superstore data set, the functionality we wanted to achieve was: Allow user to filter …
2021 Week 10 | Tableau: Can you build a must include filter? Read More
Introduction Creating the perfect dashboard requires time and patience, do we put the same amount of effort into creating dashboards ready made for mobile. This weeks shows how best to build a desktop dashboard for the automatic mobile layout. As mentioned by Bridget Cogley. Tableau’s automatic phone layout follows the a-z pattern. So top left …
2020 Week 21: Can you design for an automatic phone layout? Read More
This week’s workout comes from a recent conversation I had. The goal was to figure out the best periods of sales (whether that was best days, best weeks, or best months) and to understand more context around those dates. Was the increase in sales driven by holidays or other external events, or perhaps it was …
Week 44: Can you build a Sales Calendar with top 3 highlighting? Read More
This week we’re building a chart I was asked to create at work. A stakeholder drew this exact chart type and said, “make the chart look exactly like this!” At first glance I wasn’t sure I would be able to do it. After a little playing around I was able to re-create it! Challenge Click …
Introduction This challenge is hosted on Andy’s website – check it out here Click to open in Tableau Public Attribute When you publish your solution on Tableau Public make sure to take the time and include a link to the original inspiration. Also include the hashtag #WOW2017 in your description to make it searchable! Share After …
