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DZV & Filter Actions 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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2026 | Week 8 | DMZ & Filter Actions

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Dynamic Zone Visibility and Filter Actions in #Tableau for #WOW2026 Week 8. Thanks @hipstervizninja.com for the challenge.

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Exploring Table Calcs vs LODs 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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2026 | Week 7 | Exploring LODs and Table Calcs

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Building the same chart with table calcs vs LODs in #Tableau for #WOW2026 Week 7. Thanks Erica Hughes for the challenge

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Can you account for nulls in your averages? 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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2026 | Week 6 | Can you account for nulls in your averages?

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Dealing with nulls when calculating averages in #Tableau for #WOW2026 Week 6. Thanks @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social for the challenge,

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KPI Trend Monitor With Period Comparison 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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2026 | Week 5 | KPI Trend with Period Comparison

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Can you create a dynamic moving average chart? 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; …

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2026 | Week 4 | Can you create a dynamic moving average?

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Can you create KPI cards with viz extensions? 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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2026 | Week 3 | Can you create KPI cards with viz extensions?

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Creating KPI cards in #Tableau for #WOW2026 Week 3 using @ladataviz.com viz extensions. Thanks to Kyle Yetter for the challenge.

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Can you create a fake Viz in Tooltip? 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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2026 | Week 2 | Can you create a fake viz in tooltip?

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Can you make a bar chart race? 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 …

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 47 | Can you make a bar chart race?

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Building a bar chart race in #Tableau for #WOW2025 Week 47. Thanks @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social for the challenge

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Can you create a dynamically zooming map? 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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 46 | Can you create a dynamically zooming map?

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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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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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 45 | Population Pyramids

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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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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 …

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 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 …

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 43 | Can you build a ranked heat map tile?

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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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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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 42 | Dynamic Dimension Colouring

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

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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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 40 | Can you create this zoom & reset scatter plot?

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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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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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 39 | Can you create a drill-down?

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

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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…

#Tableau | Solution Guide | #WOW2025 | Week 38 | Can you build an L-Shaped bar chart?

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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…

Solution Guide | #Tableau | #WOW2025 | Week 37 | Let's practice table calcs!

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

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