Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

Anyone who works with data would probably say that ensuring accuracy is half the battle.  While a final Quality Assurance…

Filters play a crucial role in allowing users the flexibility to manipulate dashboards to their liking. Multi-select filters can be…

What makes dashboards attractive, engaging, and thought-provoking? While data can craft a compelling narrative, the human eye is naturally drawn…

I recently wrote a tutorial on 3 ways to visualize outliers in Tableau. This tutorial assumes a normal distribution of…

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

URL Actions and webpage objects are not new Tableau features, and a few use cases have been covered previously by…

Welcome to an exploration of Tableau’s Dynamic Zone Visibility, a powerful feature introduced in Tableau Desktop version 2022.3 that brings…

Are you running into file size issues when you attach Tableau workbooks to emails? Has IT asked your team to…

As creators, we can use splash pages to inform dashboard users of something that may affect their journey. In the…

A soundwave chart, which gets its name for its resemblance to a soundwave (shocking, I know), is excellent for measuring…

Low-fidelity (or Lo-Fi) designs are simple sketches that outline the key elements of a dashboard. In many ways, it stands…

If you’ve worked in data analytics or data visualization for any length of time, you’ll know that bar charts are…