Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

Are you running into file size issues when you attach Tableau workbooks to emails? Has IT asked your team to…

Welcome to our series on bringing tables together in Tableau! This first article is all about the physical layer, including…

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

What does design software have to do with visual analytics software like Tableau? At Playfair Data, we approach our visual…

The Button. Seemingly simple — yet so powerful. As humans, we are well versed in buttons and have been trained…

With many organizations operating in different countries, the topic of currency conversion becomes more important for data visualization specialists. Despite…

A long time ago, in a Tableau galaxy far away (aka 2014), I shared how to make a what-if analysis…

A biggest movers chart shows performance for the dimension members with the largest period over period changes, whether those changes…

It’s hard to believe, but I recently completed my very first mobile first Tableau dashboard design. That’s right – 90%…

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

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

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