Written Visual Analytics Tutorials

What better way to start the year than for the Playfair Data team to have won yet another award! Our…

This year, I had the opportunity to attend my first Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, one of the leading community…

Desire paths are unplanned trails that form when users circumvent the carefully constructed paths before them in favor of routes…

Creating a great executive dashboard for finance takes careful attention to design principles and a solid understanding of user needs.…

Preattentive attributes are something that you most likely encounter unintentionally every day, whether you are browsing the web, navigating an…

Think of the lyrics from your favorite song – or any song for that matter. I guarantee it contains the…

Tableau Pulse has created a lot of buzz within the Tableau community. Tableau developers around the world are celebrating because…

Why do we use visual analytics tools? Everyone may have different goals with their visualizations, but I think the overall…

If you’re reading this post, it’s highly likely that you either have some familiarity with or are interested in data…

At Playfair Data, we have covered dozens of ways to visualize data, and shared our tips, tricks and best practices,…

Many believe that getting a job as a Tableau engineer means you will be using Tableau Desktop to build data…

Portions of this post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow us on LinkedIn for frequent updates on visual analytics trends and…