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Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

by Nikhara Inderlal | Apr 27, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to the final part of this series of the ‘Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI’ tutorials. If you have been following along my series of blogs, you should be familiar by now with planning to create your first visualisation and the four Ws that...
Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 2

by Nikhara Inderlal | Apr 27, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to the second part of my series on the ‘Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI’. If you haven’t already had a look at Part 1 of this series, click on the link below. Data Visualisation Best Practices - Part 1 Otherwise, we will be...
Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 3

Visualisation Best Practices for Tableau or Power BI – Part 1

by Nikhara Inderlal | Apr 14, 2025 | Nikhara Inderlal, Uncategorized

Welcome to my first tutorial on the best practices for visualisations. Whether you’re creating your first visualisation (viz) on Tableau or on Power BI, these key tips and lessons are applicable to you. We use visualisations to better understand data by mapping out...
Replacing the Tableau data source without losing the colour format of your charts

Replacing the Tableau data source without losing the colour format of your charts

by Jude Shu | Jan 10, 2023 | Jude Shu

Recently I ran into this issue after I replaced the data source, the colours for some of my charts would change to the Tableau default. It is frustrating having to change each chart back to its colour scheme every time I change data sources and I did not want to touch...
Pre attentive attributes: the key to catching the eye

Pre attentive attributes: the key to catching the eye

by Stephen Hughes | Aug 15, 2022 | Stephen Hughes

Visualisation in data is about making it easy to identify points of interest within the data set. These could be trends, relationships, outliers and other KPIs. Because of this, it is always important to remember to make the marks on your visualisation easy to...
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