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Create Your Own Alteryx Tools with Macros
If you’ve spent any time using Alteryx by now, you probably have a directory full of useful modules. One of the greatest features about Alteryx is that once you have created and tested a module, you...
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Saving and Customizing Table Calculations in Tableau 9.0
When I build Tableau workbooks, I like to create quick table calculations (such as percent of total) and save those as a calculated field in the Data pane. That way, I don’t have to create that table...
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Brain-Dump ... er ... Update on Data-Aware Storage from DataGravity
Things have been extremely busy at InterWorks lately and I haven't hit my blog series on the DataGravity Discovery Series array in awhile. Our storage system is fully in production and is purring along...
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InterWorks Voted okc.BIZ’s 'Best Information Technology Company' for Fifth...
After spending the past few months tallying votes, okc.BIZ recently announced the winners of their annual “Best of Business” competition! The competition recognizes Central Oklahoma’s best businesses...
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10 Questions for InterWorks CEO Behfar Jahanshahi
10 Questions is an ongoing blog series in which I interview some of the brightest folks in the world of data. This is the nineteenth post in the series. For the full list, see the 10 Questions blog...
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The Tableau Performance Checklist: Filtering - Minimize Quick Filters
The Tableau Performance Checklist series is designed to help you streamline your dashboard performance and Tableau Server configuration. Each post expands upon one item listed in the master Tableau...
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Hiring: It’s 'HELL YES' or 'NO'
Here at InterWorks, maintaining a small group of amazing people is very important to me. Having 500, 1,000 or 10,000 employees just for the purpose of leveraging that army to hit a billion in revenue...
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10 Questions for Tableau Twitter Connector Mike Cristiani
10 Questions is an ongoing blog series in which I interview some of the brightest folks in the world of data. This is the twentieth post in the series. For the full list, see the 10 Questions blog...
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You've Got Questions, the Tableau Community Has Answers
In some of my recent posts, I’ve talked (and visualized) about some of the reasons why I love the Tableau community. My first post about the topic was a “thank you” to the Tableau community in general...
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Effective Data Governance with Tableau and DataGravity
Every once in a while, new technologies come along that alter your thinking.In 1982, the spreadsheet radically changed how everyone created budgets. In 2007, Tableau Software changed the way I looked...
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The Tableau Performance Checklist: Filtering - Avoid 'Only Relevant Values'...
The Tableau Performance Checklist series is designed to help you streamline your dashboard performance and Tableau Server configuration. Each post expands upon one item listed in the master Tableau...
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Three Steps to Making a Better Data Viz
Every day, we are flooded with data visualizations. Whether it’s a bar chart in a newspaper, an infographic you see online or a pie chart you see in a quarterly earnings report, people are turning...
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Don't Bonk at OK Freewheel 2015; Use This Calorie Replacement Calculator
One of my biggest fears when going on a long bike ride is running out of fuel and bonking (a.k.a hitting a wall). It’s a horrible feeling. Your legs feel like jelly, and it seems as if one more...
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Visualizing a Flood of Data for the Tableau 10x Contest
The recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma hit home for me. I live outside of Dallas and InterWorks has three offices in Oklahoma. We’ve seen double our normal rainfall this year, leading to major floods...
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Using Symbolic Links to Redirect ProgramData Files and Folder for VDI...
During a VDI deployment with VMware Horizon, I discovered that one of the applications in the environment was saving important user information inside the ProgramData folder. Even though the end-user...
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Where the Pavement Ends
InterWorks recently sponsored several employees on OK Freewheel, a statewide cycling tour of Oklahoma. In this post, Scott Matlock recounts his experience riding OK Freewheel's inaugural gravel route...
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The Tableau Performance Checklist: Filtering - Avoid High-Cardinality Quick...
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Matching States to Data Points Using the Alteryx Spatial Match Tool
When creating a data visualizations using U.S. weather data, I’m running into a problem. I have weather data in a dense grid from NOAA, but no way to filter individual states. Some data sources show...
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Pulling Stock Data for Visualization in Tableau
A powerful feature within Alteryx is the Download tool under the Connectors tab. It’s useful for pulling information down from the web. As the amount of data available on the web grows, the value of...
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The Tableau Performance Checklist: Filtering - Avoid Quick Filters That Drive...
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