Lorna wanted us to practice layout containers this and also sprinkled in a bit of new functionality – rounded corners! As a result you’ll need to use Tableau Desktop v2026.1 to complete…

Sean based this week’s challenge on a scenario he’d faced with a client and requires the use of dynamic zone visibility (DMZ) and filter actions. I’m going to attempt to be relati…

Erica set the challenge this week, which involved building the same visualisation in two ways – one using Table Calcs only and one using LODs. To test the functionality and validate what&#821…

In this week’s challenge Yusuke wanted us to ensure filtering by date didn’t actually exclude any dimension values (so null values displayed as 0) and average calculations then accounte…

For the challenge this week, Yoshi wanted us to recreate this summary KPI card detailing the latest Profit Ratio, the change from the previous day, and comparisons against equivalent timeframes. De…

Lorna set a table calculation focused challenge this week. Creating the parameters The challenge requires 3 parameters pTimePortion string list parameter containing values week, month and quarter; …

Kyle set the challenge this week to demonstrate the use of some of the free Viz Extensions available for Tableau Desktop and Tableau Public. Creating the Sales KPI Card After connecting the Superst…

It was my turn to set the 1st challenge for #WOW2026, and I went back in time to recreate something from over 10 years ago! I was at #DataFam Europe in December and the marvellous Andy Cotgreave re…

Yoshi & Yusuke presented this week’s #WOW2025 challenge live at the Agentforce World Tour in Tokyo. The key feature of this challenge is utilising the Pages shelf to step through how the …

Kyle challenged us this week with another take on zooming into maps, but this time not using spatial parameters. Modelling the data There are 4 sheets of data within the provided Excel workbook. Th…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This week, Sean decided to revisit a challenge from 2017, week 12, which was originally posted by Emma Whyte, one of the #WorkoutWednesday founding coaches. I’ve been completing the #WOW chal…

Erica set this week’s challenge, focusing on the ability to compare specific entities against themselves and ‘the whole’ without resulting in a mess of coloured spaghetti. 3 level…

Yusuke set the challenge this week which allowed us to try out a new feature of Tableau – Dynamic Colour Ranges. As a consequence, you’ll need v2025.2 for this. Setting up the Data for …

Yoshi set this week’s challenge which focused on 2 areas : the use of tools such as CHAT GPT to help us create Tableau RegEx functions (which are always tricksy), and the build of the chart i…

Lorna set this week’s #WOW2025 challenge asking us to recreate what looked to be a simple line and area chart combination. I have to admit this was indeed a bit tricksy. I built out the data …