Deborah Simmonds

#TinyTableauTip guest host series isn’t over yet — returning guest host Jennifer Dawes has a slick trick:
one formula + color + dual axis = both Min & Max highlighted in a line chart.

Bonus: she shows how to hide the “No” option from your color legend.

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Nearly time for #WITWOW Episode 5!
Here, Annapurani Vaidyanathan and I discuss the tug-of-war between work & life, and how to keep your ambition without losing yourself.
✨ Actionable takeaways inside.
🎧 Episode drops soon!

video of a heatmap showing English Premier League Ranking 1992-2024. The heatmap is created using map layers which are turned off and on again to demonstrate elements applied to each layer. The first layer shows all teams coloured sequentially with darker cells indicating lower finishing positions in the league. The second layer colours teams that finished in first place in yellow, and relegated teams in red, the third layer labels the yellow cells with C for champion and R for Relegated.

#WOW2025 W10 Can you rank by multiple measures? An absolute joy to lead the EMEA #JLLdatafam through this challenge yesterday. Then CJ Mayes levelled us up with a 4th option using map layers! Thanks @donnacoles30.bsky.social great challenge! 😍
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May 25 was when #StarWars first aired in theatres in 1977 and it continues to be one of my fav modern pop culture 💖. Here's the #SecretsOfTheViz version 📊 of how I came out with this idea, and I hope you enjoy this #datafam as much as I did making it⭐

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I just published my #TC25 Tip Battle workbook to Tableau Public! You can check it out now and explore all three tips!

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What happens when you are wading through chaos, while trying to make a podcast to help people find balance? Well you publish a little later than planned for a start! Nearly there now...thanks to my fabulous co-host's patience, support and focus ♥️ #WitWoW

Great advice! Just what I needed to find today ♥️

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Honoured to have been invited to share this passion project with Annapurani Vaidyanathan! Women in the World of Women - a #podcast that aims to empower women to shape the future. Follow the link below to hear our teaser, and subscribe to the channel ♥️

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#TinyTableauTip If you wan't to find the Leap Year in @tableau, use the following calculation:
IF ([Year] % 4 = 0 AND [Year] % 100 != 0) OR ([Year] % 400 = 0) THEN "Leap Year" ELSE "Non-Leap Year" END

Starting to Figma it Out I still remember the feeling when I first opened Figma. I was totally overwhelmed. The clean interface was promising, but where do you even…

New year, new skills! 🎉 My first blog post, “Starting to Figma it Out,” is live!

If you’re a #Tableau user looking to level up your dashboard designs with #Figma, this guide is for you. From gradients to rounded corners, let’s get creative, #datafam! 🚀

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#datafam #WOW2024 Wk52: Can you create a Stem & Leaf plot? I had all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order 😅 Bit of reverse engineering set me right! Fantastic challenge, thanks @yusukenakanishi.bsky.social
😍 2024 done! 🎉
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Photo of 3 x Nightingale magazines, the journal of the Data Visualization Society's journal. Issues 03: Guidelines, 04: Emotion, and 05: Nature

#datafam - so lucky to have received the best surprise present EVER! Thank you @mattedible.bsky.social for supporting my crazy ideas, listening, challenging, and sneakily finding gifts that you know I'll absolutely love ♥️ Happy holidays!!! @tableaupublic.bsky.social @datavizsociety.bsky.social

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...and special thanks to @carolineswiger1.bsky.social
for always being there to cheer me through to the end of some of the hardest challenges 🤩✨⭐️

...and that completes my personal challenge to do 51 weeks of #WOW2024 in a row! What a super year of challenges! Huge thanks to all the contributors, and especially to Erica Hughes who also let me set a challenge! ❤️

Filter for One Value OR All Others Erica set the latest challenge, testing us on our ability to master tricky filter scenarios – in this case either show the info for one specific value of a field, or only show the other value…

If you want to give it a go too, and don't know where to start, find Donna Coles' fantastic blog here:
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#WOW2024 #Tableau Wk 51: Filter for 1 value or All Others. No spoons left, so used this as an opportunity to learn from the amazing Donna Coles blog post. Thanks, I'll be using this technique! 😍

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Revolutionize your Tableau experience!

I've recorded my presentation at #datafam Europe since many of you could not attend the event in London.

Discover Viz Extensions / Figma to Tableau / and the new Filter Manager!

Video available on my YouTube channel (link below)

Screenshot showing a clip of my Tableau Public profile, with week 50, 2024 Workout Wednesday challenge as my 200th published viz on Tableau Public!

My 200th published viz!!!! #datafam how did that happen?!

WOW2024 #datafam Week 50: Can you build a Christmas Tree? 2 x versions, one as it is supposed to be, and a bonkers tessellation using a 1 sheet trellis.
Thanks @YetterDataViz @WorkoutWednsday for keeping my brain active with these fun challenges😍
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#WOW2024 #Tableau Wk49: Scatterplot Investigation. There are a lot of elements to this challenge, relationships, data prep, sets, set actions, shapes and ending in overlays...WOW 😍 great challenge @robinvernooij.bsky.social! Took a lot longer than I was expecting 😅
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#WOW2024 #Tableau Wk 48: Can you make a candle line chart? Interesting way to view the data, emphasising the scale of the change to the previous month. Enjoyed this challenge, thanks @hipstervizninja.com @WorkoutWednsday ♥️
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Hey there #DataFam! Welcome to week 48 of #WOW2024...

So what are doing this week? We're gonna play different mark types on dual axis. This week's challenge is something I'm calling a "candle line" chart.

Check it out and have fun recreating it! 🚀🚀🚀
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#WOW2024 Wk47 #Tableau
- Top 5 Product Sales vs Other Products. Very enjoyable challenge by Erica Hughes ♥️ Uses an interesting way to look at the avg product level sales by category! Link to my Level 3 response below

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After two years of writing and 18 years of life, this is out next March: my memoir about my autistic son James, how songs became our shared language... and how music & its magic affect us all. Pre-order here! linktr.ee/maybeimamazed

Thank you!

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#PreppinData #Tableau Wk 46 2024: DataFam Europe special. My 2nd EVER time using Tableau Prep. Thanks
@_Lorna_Brown
for encouraging me to participate, I ❤️ this challenge! Thanks also to my anonymous helper for battling the entire hour with me 😂 Many steps, but correct output!

#WOW2024 #Tableau Wk 46: DataFam Europe. Wow, this was tough! Got it functioning, but its a bit clunky! Is this payback for my tricky guest challenge pre TC24?! 😅
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