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Women in Tech: Honoring Their Work and Wisdom
It’s Women’s History Month, and at InterWorks, we have so much to celebrate. The women of InterWorks are some of the most brilliant, thoughtful and kick-ass colleagues I have ever had the pleasure to...
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Webinar Replay: Essential Tips to Optimize Your Tableau Calculations
We don’t have to re-invent the wheel when it comes to making improvements. It’s about taking what we have done and making minor improvements to improve efficiency. With Tableau to make these minor...
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Advance with Assist: Dynamic Sort with Top N
Question: I’d like to show the top items by a measure but allow my user to select the measure (e.g. swap between top 5 on Sales and top 5 on Profit). AND I want them to be able to change the number of...
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InterWorks Earns Two 2020 Tableau Partner of the Year Awards
For Tableau Partners, the early months of each year are especially exciting. Not only are we starting a new year afresh with new opportunities to help others further their analytics initiatives, but...
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If the Shoe Fits: Designing a Unique Employee Experience
Each year, the Employee Experience team takes the time to pick out three unique gifts we think our employees would enjoy on their anniversary. Normally, the gift is centered around something an...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – March 2021
As 2021 progresses, we’re grateful for a glimpse at what returning to normalcy could look like. While we continue to wait in hope and eager anticipation, we turn to one thing that always serves to...
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Behind the Scenes: Managing InterWorks’ Internal Systems
Recently, I sat down with Tyler Palesano, InterWorks Software Architect and MOAS Admin Extraordinaire, to talk about his internal management role and what it’s really like doing dev and tech support...
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Webinar Replay: Designing for Data
The world of design is extremely fun to navigate. Considering form, color, scale, style and more is what I love doing. Over the years, I’ve found it difficult to discuss these more nebulous terms in...
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Tableau Naming Conventions: Our Best Advice for Calcs, Sheets & More
Creating high-quality work in Tableau is one thing. Creating that high-quality work with less effort and more efficiency is something else altogether. This blog explores our team’s go-to methods for...
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Advance with Assist: Adding ALL Selection to Parameters
Question: I have a parameter list, and I know Tableau can’t allow multi-select with them yet, but if I wanted to add an ALL selection, how would I do that? Maybe someday Tableau will have the option...
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Advance with Assist: Uncaught Type Error in Tableau Server
Question: We are seeing this error on Tableau Server after upgrading to 2020.4. Nothing shows in Desktop, but Server throws the below. Any insight? This question has popped up a few times on the...
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How I Went from Summer Camp Counselor to Employee Experience Specialist
From a young age, my dad always said to me, “Jade, it is not what you know; it is about who you know that matters.” As I recall each interaction with a stranger that has led to a job opportunity or...
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Webinar Replay: What’s New in Tableau 2021.1 (and 2020.4)
In this recent webinar, we talk Tableau releases, past, present and future. This blog is a thorough recap of that webinar, but if you’re looking to just catch the replay, skip down to the bottom of the...
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Advance with Assist: Site Roles Changing on Tableau Server
Question: We have a user whose role changed from a Creator to a Viewer overnight, but no one thinks they did it accidentally. Any way to tell who did this? Fun times for server administrators here…...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – April 2021
May the fourth be with you! We blinked, and suddenly, we’re deep into 2021. It’s been a long year – I’m sure you don’t need us to tell you that – but as a new quarter begins and the seasons change,...
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How to Sort Multiple Tables in Tableau
Sorting a single table is easy in Tableau Desktop, although the degree of control varies from method to method: Click on the Sort button in your top menu. Click on the Sort button next to your...
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A Tableau Prep Primer: Its Ideal Use Cases
Tableau Prep is a part of the Tableau stack, and many of our users can benefit from having it in their BI portfolio. However, there are a few downsides of using this product users should bear in mind....
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Tricks of the Trade: Custom Number Formatting in Tableau
Sometimes, little tricks can save you a lot of time. At InterWorks, we work with clients in industries of all shapes and sizes, so I asked around amongst our many consultants for the tips they use most...
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A Closer Look at Tableau 2021.1: Quick LODs
TL;DR: Quick LOD calcs make LODs easier, which is slightly concerning. However, this could lead to some major time saving and teaching opportunities if the feature is built upon. Great New Feature,...
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Quick Q&A: Why We Like Microsoft for Cloud-Based Productivity
A few months ago, we kicked off a new blog series where we ask some of our IT experts what they like about certain technologies, as well as the vendors/partners behind those technologies. After all,...
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