Written Visual Analytics Tutorials

If you recently made the transition from Tableau to Power BI, you may find yourself looking for similarities between the…

Dashboards are valuable tools that allow us to visualize and analyze the most important data at a glance. The effectiveness…

If you have ever built a Tableau dashboard, even a simple dashboard with a single sheet, you know what a…

When you publish a Tableau dashboard, you want to ensure that every user, regardless of their data literacy, can easily…

Over the years, Playfair Data has been honored to receive and be nominated for several design awards for our products.…

I often see corporate Tableau “dashboards” built with nothing more than a large text table and a dozen or more…

As discussed in the triple crown framework, the practice of data visualization is very much a psychological exercise. If you…

One of the primary elements you’ll find on almost every high-level corporate dashboard that I ever create is a callout…

I have to admit that I have yet to use Tableau’s story points feature in any of my consulting engagements.…

As a consultant, I’m often asked to consolidate many views on a single dashboard, or even many dashboards within a…

In the post, 3 Ways to Add Alerts to Your Dashboards, the third idea is to create a “heat map…

One of the biggest advantages to using a tool like Tableau is that the software can do much of the…