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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · 3d

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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · 5d

Colouring by different dimensions in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 42. Thanks @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social for the challenge.

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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · 12d

Creating a pulse-inspired dashboard in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 41. Thanks Yoshitaka Arakawa for the challenge.

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cc: Lorna Brown Erica Hughes @hipstervizninja.com Kyle Yetter @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social

Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · 16d

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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · 20d

Creating a 'zoom and reset' scatter plot in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 40. Thanks Lorna Brown for the challenge.

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cc: Erica Hughes @hipstervizninja.com Kyle Yetter Yoshitaka Arakawa @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social

Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · 21d

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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · 26d

Building a drill down in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 39. Thanks Kyle Yetter for the challenge.

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cc: Lorna Brown Erica Hughes @hipstervizninja.com Yoshitaka Arakawa @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social

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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Sep 19

#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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Sep 13

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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Sep 11

Practicing table calcs in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 37. Thanks @hipstervizninja.com for the challenge.

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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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cc: Lorna Brown @hipstervizninja.com Kyle Yetter Yoshitaka Arakawa @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social

Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Aug 30

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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Aug 28

Visualising changes in rank in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 35. Thanks @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social for the challenge.

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cc: Lorna Brown Erica Hughes @hipstervizninja.com Kyle Yetter Yoshitaka Arakawa

Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Aug 22

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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Aug 21

Building a waterfall chart in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 34. Thanks Yoshitaka Arakawa for the challenge.

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cc: Lorna Brown Erica Hughes @hipstervizninja.com Kyle Yetter @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social

Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Aug 16

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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Aug 9

Using dynamic spatial parameters in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 32. Thanks Kyle Yetter for the challenge.

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cc: Lorna Brown Erica Hughes @hipstervizninja.com Yoshitaka Arakawa @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social

Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Jul 26

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 30 | Can you highlight a treemap?

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cc: @hipstervizninja.com Emma Whyte Lorna Brown Erica Hughes Kyle Yetter Yoshitaka Arakawa @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social

Can you highlight a treemap?

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…

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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Jul 23

A retro challenge for #WOW2025 Week 30 this week. Recreating Emma Whyte's #WOW2017 Week 12 highlighted treemap in #Tableau. Thanks @hipstervizninja.com!

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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Jul 20

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 29 | Competitor Comparison

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Competitor Comparison

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…

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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Jul 16

Comparing Competitors in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 29. Thanks Erica Hughes for the challenge.

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cc: Lorna Brown Sean Miller Kyle Yetter Yoshitaka Arakawa Yusuke Nakanishi Workout Wednesday

Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Jul 11

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 28 | Can you use Dynamic Colour Ranges?

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Can you use Dynamic Colour Ranges?

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 …

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Donna Coles @donnacoles30.bsky.social · Jul 10

Using dynamic colour ranges in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 18. Thanks @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social for the challenge.

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cc: Lorna Brown Erica Hughes @hipstervizninja.com Kyle Yetter Yoshitaka Arakawa