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How to Handle the Headache of Leading Zeros in Tableau
This question comes up in training almost every time: “My data has leading zeros. When I connect to my datasource in Tableau, it strips them off. How can I get them back?”How, indeed. This solution...
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Using Comments in Tableau
There’s something you can do to make your data easier to work with in Tableau, and I bet you’re not doing it. I love sharing this tip when I teach Tableau. Right-click on any dimension or measure in...
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5 Secrets to Improve Tableau Productivity
I can’t help but analyze every part of my life. At this point, it’s deeply ingrained into my psyche. I even jumped on the latest fitness tracking craze to measure my activity level. For those that want...
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InterWorks and Metric Insights recently put on an educational webinar about utilizing “Push Intelligence” for Tableau. The webinar was so well received that we decided to share for those of you who...
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Kevin Durant and the OKC Thunder Get the Assist from InterWorks
What a wild few days for both Oklahoma basketball fans and our team of IT professionals. The OKC Thunder contacted InterWorks late Friday afternoon with an urgent need to support a high-demand team...
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Workbook SDK Graduates Beta, Workbook Tools Enters Beta
It’s been a busy few days for the Power Tools for Tableau team and the Tableau community as a whole. Our developers have worked their tails off to finish the first of many incredible Power Tools for...
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How I Went from InterWorks Customer to InterWorks Business Intelligence Analyst
For as long as I can remember, I have always loved talking in front of groups of people. Whether it was giving the speech at my high school graduation or taking a public speaking course at Hamilton...
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What Is a Window Function and Why Should You Care?
You might be familiar with aggregate functions in Microsoft SQL Server. Aggregate functions give you a way to get a sum of a numeric value grouped by one or more fields in your result set. For example,...
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Not Applicable is Applicable - Handling 'N/A' in Tableau Mapping
Tableau’s “out of the box geocoding” functionality creates a wealth of opportunities for users to create beautiful maps almost instantly. This is continually one of the most “in-demand” sections for...
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3 Ways to Preserve 'Percent of Total' within Filtered Dimensions
Frequently in my training classes, a student will ask:“I made a view that shows my percent of total sales, but when I apply a filter, the values change. Why is this happening?"Today we’re going to...
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Comment Your Code in Tableau!
In my recent blog post, “Using Comments in Tableau,” I described how to create a comment that would display as a tooltip when you hover over a dimension or measure. There is actually another kind of...
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Metric Insights & Push Intelligence - 4 Ways to Add Insight to Tableau
Metric Insights is booming. They are growing year by year at a blistering rate of 300% in customer acquisition with some of the biggest names in business. These names include Barnes & Noble, United...
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Applying Dashboard Filters to Worksheets in Tableau
Would you like to use more than one view on a dashboard to filter data on a separate worksheet? There’s a solution for that which also prevents Tableau from automatically switching displays when...
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ATTR() - Tableau's Attribute Function Explained
I have a love / hate relationship with the Attribute function in Tableau. I love it for what it does, I hate it for those times that someone asks me to describe what it does. It took me a long time to...
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30 Seconds from SAS to TDE with Alteryx 9.0
Alteryx 9.0 was released back in April of this year and with it came a whole host of new features and tools. It’s party time in the datasource. There is a range of improvements from top to bottom,...
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How I Went from Literature Nerd to InterWorks Operations Manager
My journey has taken me all over the country across a variety of different locations, fields, disciplines and positions. I haven’t always been in BI Operations, and the road that took me here has been...
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3 Reasons You Should Kill Your Data Cubes
A few weeks ago, I finished a speech at Netflix and got into a long discussion with a business information manager from a major technology company. This fellow asked me the best way to get value from...
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3 Reasons Why I Prefer HP Vertica
Since I did a little bashing of cube technology the other day, I suppose that I should explain why I also said that I prefer HP Vertica.Vertica ScalesUsing Tableau with Vertica is like peanut butter...
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Tableau Essentials - The Toolbar
Not everyone is a Tableau guru, at least not yet. With the number of Tableau users skyrocketing, most people are just getting started. To help these Tableau rookies, we’re starting from square one with...
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The Future of Business Intelligence - 5 Things to Consider
Last week, I did a little ranting about data cubes and explained why I like Vertica. This week, I’m going to discuss the near future of business information systems and share some thoughts that you...
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