Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

I recently wrote a tutorial on 3 ways to visualize outliers in Tableau. This tutorial assumes a normal distribution of…

I am excited to announce that I have begun writing a book titled Statistical Tableau: How to Use Statistical Models…

There are many ways to detect outliers in your data but flagging them for your end users may present some…

When designing a dashboard, we often want to give our users the ability to slice and dice the data on…

There are many times when we create a view that makes our users want to dive deeper into the data…

Adding statistics to visual analytics can be an extremely powerful way to give our audience more insight into the data…

When creating a new dashboard, it is important to add context to our data. While Tableau provides a few good…

In the first part of this two-part series, I introduced How to Implement Row-Level Security in Tableau. This method is…

As our dashboards get more complex, we can sometimes be limited on space. It’s hard to find a happy medium…

This is the first post in our series on data security in Tableau. When working with data, security is always…

When analyzing any data over time, it is important to understand the seasonality or natural ebbs and flows of the…

In this tutorial I will demonstrate three ways to use different mark types with transparent sheets to highlight a selection…

While performing data analysis, you might find yourself needing to transform your data to further unlock some insight. One way…