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Why InterWorks is Different, According to a New Guy
This time last month, I was rounding out a 10-year career spent among several large organizations. During my first week at InterWorks, I met people with an ecletic mix of experience and common passions...
View ArticleTableau Server - Patching OpenSSL - HeartBleed Bug
A major vulnerability was recently patched in OpenSSL. Tableau Server 8.1.5 currently uses a vulnerable version OpenSSL. The patched version of OpenSSL is 1.0.1g. Here's a quick guide on how you can...
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'The Price Is Right' Visualized in Tableau: Top Money Winners and What Game...
One of my favorite game shows to watch is “The Price Is Right.” I’ve always been a huge fan of the games, and I love watching the hilarity of contestants as they run down the aisle after hearing their...
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InterWorks Boosts Alteryx Commitment as Inspire 2014 Gold Sponsor
With Inspire 2014 just around the corner, InterWorks is preparing to showcase their arsenal of Alteryx services. This is InterWorks’ first year to attend, and they’re boldly taking on the role of Gold...
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Comparing Tableau Dimension Members without Custom SQL
What do you do when a request can’t be solved by traditional reporting tools, and adding new tables or views to your database can take weeks? Situation A new manager joins the group. While you’re...
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How I Went from a Ranch to InterWorks Web Developer
When I was young, everyone always told me to pick something you're good at and make a career out of it. I always responded with, “what if you’re good at many things?” If any kid responds to you like...
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Kevin Durant Wins MVP, Even If You Cook the Books.
For the 2013-2014 NBA season, Kevin Durant is clearly dominating the list of League MVP candidates. Whether looking at straight stats, overall performance or any number of arbitrary, cooked-up...
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Using a Parameter as a Filter and Retaining the 'All' Value
The PuzzleThe client wants to see a rolling five-quarter view of Sales and Profit. Easy.She also wants to have a second pane on a dashboard that shows Sales and Profit of those five quarters rolled up...
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Customizing Map Overlays in Tableau
Some of you may have come upon this problem:You can’t see where the states or their boundaries are. Why is that you may ask? Tableau overlays what are called “Map Layers.” These layers allow you to...
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Set Your Tableau Viz Permalink to Add a Lightbox and Drive Web Traffic
You've created a brilliant viz. Everyone is sharing it on social networks, but they're not finding their way to the blog post that explained it all. Instead, they land on the default Tableau page. You...
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InterWorks Surpasses World-Class Customer Care Benchmark for ShoreTel Services
We received a letter yesterday from Don Joos, President & CEO of ShoreTel. In it, Don shared some high praise for all that InterWorks does to take care of ShoreTel customers. Here’s just a bit of...
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To Extract or Not to Extract? - 7 Guidelines for Tableau Data Extracts
Fine-tuning the performance of your Tableau Server environment can seem at times to be more alchemy than science, particularly with the ever-changing diversity of the needs and requirements of your...
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EqualLogic and VMware: Reclaim Unused Disk Space for EQL Volume
For many businesses, using thin provisioned volumes is best way to optimize a virtual machine environment. This can be applied at both the hypervisor level and both the storage area network level. In...
View ArticleSophos UTM: Fix [Info-141] Http proxy not running - restarted
For anyone using the Sophos Web Protection Content Filter, you should make the following change to the regular expressions in the "Sophos Services[Allow Sophos Services]" exception list.Change...
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Tableau Terminology 101: Pills, Shelves and Dashboards, Oh My!
Tableau software is incredible in its own right, but it’s even more amazing once you actually understand all the words they throw at you in training. Most of it is pretty intuitive, and that’s exactly...
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Monitor Your Tableau Server without the GUI
If you enjoy monitoring your Tableau Server cluster by constantly refreshing the admin view (image below), this might be for you. Whether it’s the repetitive clicking or the severe lack of sleep that’s...
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Questions from Tableau Training: Speeding Up Presentation Views when Using...
Making presentations from Tableau can be a winning occurrence when you are able to make the production interactive. The world of the slide deck, with static images relaying only one objective, can be a...
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How I Went from Jack of All Trades to InterWorks Principal Consultant
I was one of those kids who always changed what they wanted to be when they grew up. “Architect!” I might say one day. A few days later, I might change that to Imagineer, scientist, artist,...
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Tableau 101: Mouse Control
Want to improve your efficiency in Tableau? One of the best pro-tips you can learn is how to properly utilize mouse functions in the tool.I know, I know … your first response was probably: “Really? We...
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How I Went from Golf Pro to InterWorks Systems Administrator
It has always been interesting to ask people what they wanted to be when they were a kid and compare it to the career they actually embraced as an adult. Growing up, hands down, I was going to be a...
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