How to use Parameter Actions in Tableau to Create a Dynamic Date Ranges | #WorkoutWednesday | 2019 | 42
How to use parameter actions in tableau to create dynamic date ranges
Tag Archives: line chart
How to create a radar chart in Tableau | #WorkoutWednesday | 2019 | 07
This is a fun one. I like it when the #WorkoutWednesday add a little whimsy into their challenges and that’s just what Lorna did with her’s this week. Since her challenge came during the week of Valentines Day, she resurrected an old #MakeoverMonday dataset about valentines day spending and challenged us to make a radar
How to use Set Actions to compare period over period changes
Tableau Ambassador, former #IronViz champion and an all-around good guy, Curtis Harris is back with a fun #SetAction themed #WorkoutWednesday challenge for week 47. Let’s take a look and here are the requirements: Nice and simple. Should be fairly straightforward. Whenever I go about these challenges I like to build out the skeleton first. Then
How to color between two lines in Tableau
This week for #MakeoverMonday, Andy gave us some Census data to play with and this infographic to make over What works well Good title and subtitle Nice appealing colors Line colors are Labeled clearly I like the point values on the ends only What could be improved I’m not loving the bottom side-by-side chart. I
How to use Set Actions in Tableau for drill down
So here we are! 2018.3 is here and with it, along with many new AWESOME features are set actions! And boy, are they gonna change the game. [I realize that we say that with nearly every release but seriously, set actions are gonna be big] 2018.3 was released Monday night and wouldn’t you know it,
Highlighting All Points in a Year
A good challenge that was not as hard as I was making it.
Product Hierarchies
Week 6 of #WorkoutWednesday has us taking a looking at a dot plot across a product hierarchy. Here’s our challenge Requirements The dashboard size is 600px by 800px You must use Category and Sub-Category in your product hierarchy. Right-align each member in the hierarchy. Sort each level in the hierarchy descending by sum of sales.
The MLB Racial Gap
February is going to be a busy month for the blog. Tableau is teaming up with other organizations and communities to help #VisualizeDiversity in honor of #BlackHistoryMonth. Week 1 – #MakeoverMonday Week 2 – Storytelling with Data Week 3 – #VizforSocialGood Week 4 – #DataforDemocracy So this first week we’re looking at a visual from the
Distracted Drivers
This year, acclaimed author of “Storytelling with Data”, Cole Knaflic is challenging her followers to a specific data visualization challenge each month. January’s challenge is using annotations on a line chart to tell a story. I chose to focus on fatal traffic incidents involving distracted drivers. Read about my thought process and analysis in this post.