Tableau Tip: How to Make Better Relative Date Filters
Have you ever needed to filter to the last 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, etcetera in Tableau? You’ve likely found that it’s easy to add a...Read More
Data Tips & Tutorials
How to Drill into a Single Row of a Text Table in Tableau
Have you ever wanted to drill into a single row of a text table in Tableau? Tableau has some nice hierarchy options that allow you to drill down and...Read More
Tableau Training with Ryan Sleeper is Coming to Chicago, Philadelphia, and Kansas City
Playfair Data is excited to be taking our unique Tableau and data visualization training on the road this summer / fall by hosting all-inclusive,...Read More
3 Creative Ways to Use Tableau Parameter Actions
I have always described Tableau parameters as a Swiss Army knife due to their infinite applications. In case you are not familiar, Tableau parameters...Read More
How to Dynamically Change Number Units Between K / M / B in Tableau
This post will show you how to automatically change number formatting in Tableau between no units for values less than 1000, K for thousands, M for...Read More
3 Ways to Make Splendid Slope Graphs in Tableau
I always say that one specific chart type per analytics scenario will help you capture roughly half the insight. Comparing categorical data? I always...Read More
Data-Ink Ratio Animation and How to Apply it in Tableau
In his 1983 book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte introduced the concept of the data-ink ratio in data visualization. In...Read More
How to Make Unit Histograms / Wilkinson Dot Plots in Tableau
Unit histograms, or Wilkinson dot plots, show distributions of individual data points instead of bucketing them into bins like traditional histograms....Read More
How to do “Button Swapping” in Tableau
You’ve likely heard of sheet swapping in Tableau; a well-known tactic that allows your users to choose what type of chart is shown on a view. With...Read More