Written Visual Analytics Tutorials

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…

Despite many new challengers over the years in the world of data visualization, bar charts have remained one of the…

Pareto Charts are powerful, eye-catching visualizations that help illustrate your most significant dimension members. The 80/20 Pareto Principle states that…

Tableau line graphs are one of the most widely used visualizations on dashboards today – it’s hard to beat a…

A diverging unit chart acts in the same fashion as a normal unit chart but adds another layer of insight…