The Beginner’s Guide to Tableau Table Calculations
Tableau’s table calculations, while very powerful, can be both tricky and confusing to work with. There are some great benefits…
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3 Innovative Ways to Use Figma in Your Visual Analytics Projects
What does design software have to do with visual analytics software like Tableau? At Playfair Data, we approach our visual…
The Definitive Guide to Buttons in Tableau
The Button. Seemingly simple — yet so powerful. As humans, we are well versed in buttons and have been trained…
How to Do Currency Conversion in Tableau with Google Sheets
With many organizations operating in different countries, the topic of currency conversion becomes more important for data visualization specialists. Despite…
How to Do Better What-If Scenario Planning with Tableau Set Controls
A long time ago, in a Tableau galaxy far away (aka 2014), I shared how to make a what-if analysis…
How to Make a Biggest Movers Chart in Tableau
A biggest movers chart shows performance for the dimension members with the largest period over period changes, whether those changes…
5 Tips for Mobile First Tableau Dashboard Design
It’s hard to believe, but I recently completed my very first mobile first Tableau dashboard design. That’s right – 90%…
Playfair Data Presents: Preattentive Attributes
In the post and video, Why do you visualize data?, I share my exercise for educating stakeholders on the value…
Data-Ink Ratio Animation and How to Apply it in Tableau
In his 1983 book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte introduced the concept of the data-ink ratio in…