Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

This tutorial explores a way to elevate the user experience of your visualizations by adding borders to highlight selections for…

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

When Playfair Data does visual analytics consulting, we always strive to reduce the time to insight, increase the accuracy of…

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

In Practical Tableau, we introduced the concept of a pace chart, an alternative bullet graph that normalizes progress to goal…

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

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

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

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…

At Playfair Data, our designers, data specialists, and Tableau engineers team up for every client consulting project to curate practical…