Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

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

Did you know that pie charts have been around for over 220 years?! They first appeared in 1801 in William…

Being able to apply some basics of layout design to your visual analytics projects can bring a surprising amount of…

Pagination is a useful tactic to add additional user experience to a dashboard while keeping them clean and orderly. Sometimes…

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

As our dashboards get more complex, we can sometimes be limited on space. It’s hard to find a happy medium…

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

Shading vs. Background There are two approaches to changing surface color in Tableau; shading and background. While they have the…

Drop-down menus are nothing new.  Tableau has this capability built in for filters, set controls, and parameters which work great,…