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Donna Coles
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Creating a dynamically zooming map in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 46. Thanks Kyle Yetter for the challenge.

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November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 45 | Population Pyramids

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Population Pyramids
Sean used a new HR dataset from the #RWFD website for this week’s #WOW2025 challenge. The data provided contained 1 row per person. I started by creating a bin based on the Age field, which I…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Building population pyramids in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 45 using data from #RWFD. Thanks @hipstervizninja.com for the challenge.

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November 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 44 | Can you build a satellite chart to represent values exceeding 100%?

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Can you build a satellite chart to represent values exceeding 100%
For this week’s challenge, we’re using the data from a previous challenge and visualising it using Sam Parson’s ‘satellite’ chart idea – see here. Modelling the …
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November 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 43 | Can you build a ranked heat map tile?

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Can you build a ranked heatmap tile?
Erica had a guest coach, Valerija Kirjackaja setting the challenge this week, asking us to use table calculations to build this heatmap table. I built an initial version of the heatmap only, which …
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October 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Building a ranked heat map in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 43. Thanks Valerija Kirjackaja for the challenge

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October 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 42 | Dynamic Dimension Colouring

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Dynamic Dimension Colouring
For this week’s challenge, Yusuke asked us to provide a solution to allow charts to be coloured by different dimension, but he sprinkled a few extras in just for good measure :-) Defining the…
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October 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Colouring by different dimensions in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 42. Thanks @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social for the challenge.

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October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Creating a pulse-inspired dashboard in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 41. Thanks Yoshitaka Arakawa for the challenge.

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October 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 40 | Can you create this zoom & reset scatter plot?

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Can you create this ‘zoom and reset’ scatter plot?
For this week’s #WOW challenge we’re focusing on parameter driven axes ranges. Building the basic viz After connecting to the dataset, add Sales to Columns and Profit to Rows. Add Custo…
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October 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Creating a 'zoom and reset' scatter plot in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 40. Thanks Lorna Brown for the challenge.

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September 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 39 | Can you create a drill-down?

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Can you create a drill-down
Kyle set the challenge this week to recreate a drill-down, but with the stipulation that no parameters were to be used. I immediately figured this would be a challenge requiring set actions, and in…
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September 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Building a drill down in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 39. Thanks Kyle Yetter for the challenge.

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September 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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#Tableau | Solution Guide | #WOW2025 | Week 38 | Can you build an L-Shaped bar chart?

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Can you build an L-Shaped bar chart?
My inspiration for this week’s #WOW challenge came from Sarah Palette’s post on X from last year, and has been something I’d been meaning to try for ages, so figured a #WOW challe…
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September 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 37 | Let's practice table calcs!

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Let’s practice Table Calcs!
For this week’s #WOW2025 challenge, Sean went ‘back to basics’ with a focus on table calculations. Let’s jump right in. After connecting to the data, add Team to Rows and Ti…
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September 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Practicing table calcs in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 37. Thanks @hipstervizninja.com for the challenge.

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September 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 36 | Can you build a colour-coded filter?

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Can you build a colour-coded filter?
Erica collaborated with Giulio D’Errico for this week’s #WOW2025 challenge, which contained lots of features, though the main challenge was to display filter on Region, which along with the R…
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September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Building a colour-coded filter in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 36. Thanks Erica Hughes & Giulio D'Errico for the challenge. Had to use unicode characters though..

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September 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 35 | Can you visualise yearly rank changes in Sub-Category sales?

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Can you visualise yearly rank change in Sub-Category sales?
Yusuke set this interesting challenge : to combine a ‘bump’/’slope’ chart visualising the change in rank whilst also visually displaying the Sales value for the relevant Sub…
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August 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Visualising changes in rank in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 35. Thanks @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social for the challenge.

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August 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 34 | Can you break down YoY Profit into its drivers?

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Can you break down YoY Profit into its drivers?
It was Yoshi’s turn to set the challenge this week. The requirement was to build a waterfall chart, and I have to confess I did end up having to have a sneak peak at Yoshi’s solution to…
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August 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Building a waterfall chart in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 34. Thanks Yoshitaka Arakawa for the challenge.

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August 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 33 | Can you recreate this marginal histogram?

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Can you recreate this marginal histogram?
For this week’s challenge, Lorna visualised the output of a crazy golf game she had with the latest Data School cohort, and thought it would be a fun challenge to share. While the data set is…
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August 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 32 | Can you use dynamic spatial parameters?

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Can you use dynamic spatial parameters?
Kyle set this challenge while I was on my holidays. And because I was away and short on time, I’m cheating a bit this week. I’m not going to provide a full solution guide, but am writin…
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August 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Using dynamic spatial parameters in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 32. Thanks Kyle Yetter for the challenge.

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August 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM