Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

What does design software have to do with visual analytics software like Tableau? At Playfair Data, we approach our visual…

The Button. Seemingly simple — yet so powerful. As humans, we are well versed in buttons and have been trained…

Drop-down menus are nothing new.  Tableau has this capability built in for filters, set controls, and parameters which work great,…

For most Tableau authors, typography is not the first thing they think about when they develop a dashboard. Luckily, Tableau…

Being able to apply some basics of layout design to your visual analytics projects can bring a surprising amount of…