How to Use a Border to Highlight Selections in Tableau
This tutorial explores a way to elevate the user experience of your visualizations by adding borders to highlight selections for…
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How to Connect to Data in Power BI Desktop
Microsoft’s Power BI is one of the top data visualization platforms on the market. The Power BI platform has products…
Why You Should Visualize Your Personal Data
Sometimes the sheer amount of data available at our fingertips can make it feel impossible to choose a topic for…
The Definitive Guide to Dashboard Objects in Tableau
If you have ever built a Tableau dashboard, even a simple dashboard with a single sheet, you know what a…
3 Ways to Drop the Mic with Drop Lines in Tableau
When Playfair Data does visual analytics consulting, we always strive to reduce the time to insight, increase the accuracy of…
3 Ways to Make Beautiful Bar Charts in Power BI
Despite many new challengers over the years in the world of data visualization, bar charts have remained one of the…
3 Reasons to Learn Figma as a Data Analyst
Figma isn’t just for designers. If you’re a data engineer, analyst, Tableau / Power BI user who has been curious…
3 Creative Ways to Add Instructions for Your Users in Tableau
When you publish a Tableau dashboard, you want to ensure that every user, regardless of their data literacy, can easily…
How to Make a Pareto Chart in Tableau 2.0
Pareto Charts are powerful, eye-catching visualizations that help illustrate your most significant dimension members. The 80/20 Pareto Principle states that…
A Quick Start Guide to Tableau Prep
In this tutorial, we’ll be covering the Tableau Prep tool and how we can use it to build out data…
Introducing “Gap” Charts in Tableau
In Practical Tableau, we introduced the concept of a pace chart, an alternative bullet graph that normalizes progress to goal…
3 Tips for Data Quality Assurance (QA) in Alteryx
Anyone who works with data would probably say that ensuring accuracy is half the battle. While a final Quality Assurance…
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