Your journey into Tableau has kicked off - you've watched some videos, put some basic graphs together, played around with dashboards and stories... but how do you practice more to solidify your understanding?
One of the free resources that create a weekly challenge is called Workout Wednesday (https://workout-wednesday.com/). It's been around since 2017 and every week they come up with another interesting challenge to practice your Tableau mind bending skills. From beginner to expert, there is something for everyone. This snippet below gives some more information.
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Participation is simple - recreate the dashboard in the challenge to see if you have mastered the required skills. There are a variety of blogs and Youtube videos of other people working through previous challenges. You can also download the challenge workbook to see how it was created or look at the solution video posted on some of the challenges.
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On the top right corner you can search for a specific topic, look into the background on the challenge contributors, or choose the specific tool you want the challenges for.
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If you're like me (when I first started) and consider yourself a newcomer, you can navigate to their beginner's section called 'WOW Essentials'. It takes you to a page that shows more basic level challenges. This is a great way to practice simpler challenges that focus on a specific aspect like building a min/max chart or using containers.
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With so many options to choose from, I decided to delve into the archives and start from the beginning in 2017. I'll be working on these challenges and creating blog posts to explain my process - including information about new things I learned, things I struggled with and little 'yay' moments of success.
Keep an eye out for #IntoTheArchive on my Tableau Public profile and follow along as I continue building my skills in Tableau.
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/lorraine.ferrusi/vizzes