Visual Analytics and Tableau Blog

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

Setting goals and measuring progress is a common activity for many people. Maybe someone wants to read 25 books, travel…

Radar charts are great for catching attention! However, keep in mind that they are difficult to interpret. So combining a…

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…

Traditional Gantt charts display a mark at a start date and size the mark by duration, showing a visual connection…

I often see stock ticker gauges that show a trend for a symbol or index, but where the entire chart…

The humble bar chart still reigns supreme when it comes to visualizing differences between categorial, or discrete, data – but…

Connected scatter plots can be an extremely powerful chart type when trying to compare relationships between two measures and how…