Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

Microsoft’s Power BI is one of the top data visualization platforms on the market. The Power BI platform has products…

Sometimes the sheer amount of data available at our fingertips can make it feel impossible to choose a topic for…

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

In this tutorial, we’ll be covering the Tableau Prep tool and how we can use it to build out data…

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

This is the third post in our series on formatting in Tableau. For other applications, see Tableau Formatting Series: How…

This is the second post in our series on formatting in Tableau. For other applications, see Tableau Formatting Series: How…

This is the first in a three-part series on toggles in Tableau – subscribe to receive future updates. Toggles in…

This content is excerpted from my book, Innovative Tableau: 100 More Tips, Tutorials, and Strategies, published by O’Reilly Media Inc.,…

In the post and video, Why do you visualize data?, I share my exercise for educating stakeholders on the value…

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

This is the first in a five-part series on getting the most out of text in Tableau. For future updates,…