Category: Strategy
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Dashboards aren’t dead. They’re just explanatory.
The problem isn’t that companies don’t have enough data. There’s never been a time in history when businesses have had more data, and data…
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3 Ways to Navigate AI’s Push vs. Pull Trade-Off
Here’s what nobody is talking about… The maligned AI catchphrase that is a telltale sign that AI slop is forthcoming. But seriously, I wrote…
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3 Reasons the Analytics Maturity Framework Is Broken (and What’s Better!)
During our Decision-Ready Data strategy workshops, one focus area is ensuring practitioners and stakeholders align on the type of analytics being delivered. We’ve shared…
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Visualizing Novel Use Cases with Claude Sonnet 4.6
Like so many others, I have been intrigued by the capabilities of advancements in AI and its potential to make data visualization and analytics…
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Data vs. Analytics vs. Visual Analytics: What’s the Difference?
As tradition holds, Playfair Data shares our analytics trends and predictions going into each new year and recaps it by sharing the Playfair+ tutorials…
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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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Tableau vs. Power BI vs. Oracle Analytics Cloud: 2026 Comparison Guide
Okay, I get it. Searching for “Tableau vs. Power BI” leads to over 25 million results in Google, and that is if you can…
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Winning the Oracle Analytics Cloud Data Visualization Challenge
What better way to start the year than for the Playfair Data team to have won yet another award! Our team competed in the…
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Data democratization is dead. Long live data democratization.
This year, I had the opportunity to attend my first Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, one of the leading community events for analytics leaders…
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3 Ways to Avoid Data Visualization Desire Paths
Desire paths are unplanned trails that form when users circumvent the carefully constructed paths before them in favor of routes they perceive to be…
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5 Lessons Learned from Designing Executive Dashboards: the Financial Analysis Swift
Creating a great executive dashboard for finance takes careful attention to design principles and a solid understanding of user needs. In this tutorial, we’ll…
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Preattentive Attributes Comparison
Preattentive attributes are something that you most likely encounter unintentionally every day, whether you are browsing the web, navigating an app on your phone,…
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The Parallels Between Storytelling and Data Visualization
Think of the lyrics from your favorite song – or any song for that matter. I guarantee it contains the words “I”, “you”, or…
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How to Enable Tableau Pulse and Ensure a Successful Launch
Tableau Pulse has created a lot of buzz within the Tableau community. Tableau developers around the world are celebrating because it can enable your…
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Exploring the History of Data Visualization
If you’re reading this post, it’s highly likely that you either have some familiarity with or are interested in data visualization. Today we’ll explore…
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The Benefits of Data Visualization for Data Scientists
At Playfair Data, we have covered dozens of ways to visualize data, and shared our tips, tricks and best practices, but it’s important to…
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Tableau Careers You Didn’t Know About
Many believe that getting a job as a Tableau engineer means you will be using Tableau Desktop to build data visualizations. While this is…
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How to Make a Pareto Chart in Tableau 2.0
Pareto Charts are powerful, eye-catching visualizations that help illustrate your most significant dimension members. The 80/20 Pareto Principle states that roughly 20% of causes…