Written Visual Analytics Tutorials

The scatter plot is a chart type that has many uses in visual analytics. They’re used to visualize relationships between…

Biggest movers charts in Power BI are powerful charts that show the performance of dimension members with the largest absolute…

When it comes to comparing discrete categorical values, rarely is there a better choice than the bar chart. Invented by…

As far as I’m concerned, boring chart types are always in style. The problem-solving principle of Occam’s Razor states that,…

The “Balance Scale chart” came to life during a team brainstorming session while building the Financial Analysis Swift as we…

Pareto charts are powerful visualizations that help determine your business’ best performers. In this tutorial, I’ll create a Pareto chart…

For a while now, I have been thinking of ways to show how a single dimension member ranks over several…

Spider charts, also known as radar charts, are an engaging and perhaps underutilized chart for visual analytics. While this advanced…

A Semi-Sunburst chart in Tableau creates a visually striking effect that catches the viewer’s attention. If you need to add…

Choosing and designing charts is a deceptively challenging aspect of data visualization. It can seem obvious when someone else made…

A Tableau heat map is a chart type that allows users to quickly identify patterns in marks by using the…

If you read the first installation in this series on how to make Power BI bar charts more engaging, this…