Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

Tableau’s table calculations, while very powerful, can be both tricky and confusing to work with. There are some great benefits…

For us, Maggy and Nick, Alteryx has become a tool we use every day in our working lives and for…

When designing a dashboard, we often want to give our users the ability to slice and dice the data on…

For most Tableau authors, typography is not the first thing they think about when they develop a dashboard. Luckily, Tableau…

The Generate Rows tool in Alteryx is a great tool to explore when you need to expand your dataset. When…

Dynamic parameters were introduced with Tableau Desktop version 2020.1 and rightfully created a lot of buzz among Tableau authors due…

In this post you will learn how to: (1) create static sets, (2) create dynamic sets, (3) use sets as…

In his 1983 book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte introduced the concept of the data-ink ratio in…

One of the first topics I cover during my live Tableau training events is what I view as the single…