Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

As an analyst, dashboard engineer, or even data engineer, we are generating more and more data that needs to be…

Scatter plots are a great way to explore correlations and visually identify outliers in your data.  But what if your…

The Generate Rows tool in Alteryx is a great tool to explore when you need to expand your dataset. When…

Have you ever wanted to sort a Tableau text table or visualization by both measures and dimensions? For example, it…

In this post you will learn how to connect to a secondary data source and use it for easier parameter…

If you’ve been following the Tableau Desktop tutorials here at Playfair Data, it is likely that you also have a…

There are always problem-solving brainstorms at our Tableau training events, and sometimes the solutions are so relevant for all Tableau…

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

The most common question I get from analysts is, “How do I get better at Tableau?”. It’s not easy being…