Category: Engineering
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3 Totals Hacks to Transform Your Tableau Bar Charts
I’ve recently had a fantastic run of totals-based discoveries. I’ll admit – I’ve overlooked the humble Totals feature. At the Tableau Conference, a friend…
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Year in Review / Top Playfair+ Tutorials of 2025
What a year 2025 has been! With 29 new written tutorials, 18 new video tutorials, and many public and private training events held throughout…
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3 Ways to Make Stunning Scatter Plots in Oracle Analytics Cloud
The scatter plot is a chart type that has many uses in visual analytics. They’re used to visualize relationships between two measures, reveal trends,…
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How to Make a Biggest Movers Chart in Power BI
Biggest movers charts in Power BI are powerful charts that show the performance of dimension members with the largest absolute period-over-period change. Typically, report…
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3 Ways to Make Beautiful Bar Charts in Oracle Analytics Cloud
When it comes to comparing discrete categorical values, rarely is there a better choice than the bar chart. Invented by our company’s namesake, William…
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How to Insert Custom Images in Power BI Matrix Visuals
Matrix visuals are extremely popular and easy-to-use charts in Power BI. Their familiarity to spreadsheets makes them easy to adopt, especially for beginners. While…
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3 Ways to Make Lovely Line Graphs in Oracle Analytics Cloud
As far as I’m concerned, boring chart types are always in style. The problem-solving principle of Occam’s Razor states that, the simplest solution is…
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Formatting Tips for Power BI Matrix Visuals
If you’ve ever used Power BI in any capacity, I am confident you’ve come across a report with at least one matrix visual. Matrix…
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How to Create Balance Scale Charts in Power BI
The Balance Scale chart is a Playfair Data innovation that was originally created for our Financial Analysis Swift in Tableau. Recently, we were able…
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Introducing Balance Scale Charts in Tableau
The “Balance Scale chart” came to life during a team brainstorming session while building the Financial Analysis Swift as we discussed different chart types…
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How to Make 80/20 Pareto Charts in Power BI
Pareto charts are powerful visualizations that help determine your business’ best performers. In this tutorial, I’ll create a Pareto chart in Power BI to…
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Icon-Based Navigation in Power BI
Icon-based navigation in Power BI is one of the most effective ways to improve the user experience of your reports. Using an icon as…
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Introducing Sankey Bump Charts in Tableau
For a while now, I have been thinking of ways to show how a single dimension member ranks over several measures. I ran across…
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Toggle Visuals With Bookmarks in Power BI
Bringing a Power BI report to life through interactivity is a great way to improve a report’s user experience. What better way to do…
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Nested Parameters in Power BI Desktop
Parameters are a great way to customize your Power BI Desktop reports. Using parameters in your reports allows users to change their analysis with…
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How to Make Sensational Spider Charts in Tableau
Spider charts, also known as radar charts, are an engaging and perhaps underutilized chart for visual analytics. While this advanced chart may not be…
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How to Build a Semi-Sunburst Chart in Tableau
A Semi-Sunburst chart in Tableau creates a visually striking effect that catches the viewer’s attention. If you need to add a secret weapon to…
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How to Create Multiselect Parameters in Tableau
Binary Parameters are a new technique that allows you to store multiple Boolean selections in one parameter, essentially creating a multiselect parameter. The basis…
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Beginner’s Guide to DAX in Power BI: Creating a Date Table
In the same way that you can’t bake a cake without flour, you can’t use Power BI Desktop without Data Analysis Expressions, also known…
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Understanding Advanced Tableau Calculations Like Standard Deviation, Moving Average, and More
Tableau is a useful tool for an analyst to have in their repository, with its drag and drop interface allowing practitioners to easily dive…
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Power BI Service vs Power BI Desktop
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the words, “Power BI”? Is it Power BI Desktop or the Power BI service?…