Introduction How is it the end of February already? Time flies when you’re having fun. I’m going to apologise first, as I think this week is going to be tough, and with that in mind I’m going to supply extra hints and tips along the way. This will test your Table Calculation Skills and Order …
#WOW2024 | Week 9 | Can you create these KPI Cards? Read More
Introduction Happy New Year to you all! This is the start of #WorkoutWednesday’s 7th year – how amazing is that! Thank you to everybody for your continued support and engagement – it really helps keep this initiative going! For the first challenge of 2024, I’ve updated a visualisation I first built several years ago based …
#WOW2024 | Week 1 | Can you compare salaries to the median? Read More
Introduction Only X months/ a year later, Val is back as a guest coach with another challenge.And if you remember #WOW2022 W35, you know that Val loves a good table! Anicely formatted table, if possible. A table filled with table calcs – even better.This week’s WOW challenges you to create a dynamic tidy-looking table showinga …
#WOW2023 | Week 39 | Target Achievement Report (Guest) 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 For retro month at WOW Towers, I decided to go way back into the archive and focus on a challenge that was set by one of the original WOW coaches, Emma Whyte, in May 2017. The original challenge looked like the below image and provided a visual representation of the results of a blind …
#WOW2023 | Week 29 | Re-viz : Blind leading the blind Read More
Introduction This week we are tackling Antarctic ice data. The changing sea ice will represent significant challenges for ourselves but even more for future generations. One thing we’ve come to realize in the past few years is that changes are coming much faster than we ever anticipated. For this week’s challenge we’re going to use …
Introduction I saw this visualisation floating around my twitter and trending on Tableau Public and thought it would make a great challenge for Workout Wednesday. Big thanks to Jacob for letting me use his visualisation as inspiration today! In this weeks workout, I want you to look at the percent change between two dates, we …
#WOW2023 Week 25: Can you calculate a percent difference between a range of dates? Read More
Introduction This week, I’m introducing the idea of taking bathymetry or contour lines on maps and placing the lines on heat maps. These lines come from identifying the elevation (for contour lines) or depth of water (for bathymetry lines) and creating a map using those values. Here is an example of a contour map from …
2023 Week 20: Can you build a heat map with bathymetry lines? Read More
Introduction Welcome to community month for 2023. Each year since 2018 we’ve hosted a community month–where we invite different people from the Tableau Community. This year I wanted to invite someone who has been a prolific supporter of the data visualization community but hasn’t been recognized by Tableau as an Ambassador or Visionary for his …
2023 Week 14: How short are baseball games in 2023? Read More
Introduction The theme for February 2023 has been alternatives. This week I present an alternative (and trust me, there are many other alternatives) to my least favorite chart: the side-by-side bar chart. The reason this chart is so difficult for me is because it takes up a lot of space and when I am doing …
2023 Week 8: Can you build a comet chart as an alternative to a side-by-side bar chart? Read More
