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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How to Completely Customize Multi-Select Filters in Tableau
Filters play a crucial role in allowing users the flexibility to manipulate dashboards to their liking. Multi-select filters can be…
The Ultimate Guide to Getting High Resolutions In and Out of Tableau
What makes dashboards attractive, engaging, and thought-provoking? While data can craft a compelling narrative, the human eye is naturally drawn…
Playfair Data Earns Recognitions for Excellence in Visual Analytics and Business Growth
Playfair Data is excited to announce four recognitions underscoring its excellence in the field of visual analytics and its business…
Statistical Tableau: Using MAD to Detect Outliers in Non-Normalized Data
I recently wrote a tutorial on 3 ways to visualize outliers in Tableau. This tutorial assumes a normal distribution of…
How to Create Light Mode and Dark Mode Dashboards in Tableau
Over the years, Playfair Data has been honored to receive and be nominated for several design awards for our products.…
3 More Ways to Make Lovely Line Graphs in Tableau
Line graphs are one of the most widely used visualizations on dashboards today – it’s hard to beat a line…
How to Use Dynamic URL Actions in Tableau
URL Actions and webpage objects are not new Tableau features, and a few use cases have been covered previously by…
Celebrating 5 Years of Playfair+ with 5 Sneak Previews
Playfair+ members (and potential members) – Thank you for your support of our premier visual analytics eLearning platform. Five years…
How to Use Tableau’s Dynamic Zone Visibility to Highlight Selected Measures
Welcome to an exploration of Tableau’s Dynamic Zone Visibility, a powerful feature introduced in Tableau Desktop version 2022.3 that brings…
How to Manipulate Dates in Alteryx
Whether you work with data as a hobby or as your career, it is all but certain that you will…
3 Ways to Optimize Tableau Workbook File Size
Are you running into file size issues when you attach Tableau workbooks to emails? Has IT asked your team to…
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