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Event Debrief - September 2017
September went by in a flash with every day bringing more and more anticipation for the 2017 Tableau Conference. And now it’s upon us! However, gearing up for TC17 isn’t the only thing we were busy...
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How to Create a BCG Growth-Share Matrix in Tableau
While working with a recent client, we tried to answer which product categories their business should keep investing in and which categories are not worth the effort of selling. At this point, I...
View ArticleOur Favorite Tweets from #Data17
Can you believe the 2017 Tableau Conference is already over? Spanning four days with hundreds of sessions and over 14,000 attendees, it really is the data event of the year. It was also the social...
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The Biggest TC17 Takeaways
It's a data nerd's favorite time of year! That's right, the 2017 Tableau Conference has come and gone with all the updates and announcements you crave. Don't forget that you can be part of the action...
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The Netherlands TUG Is Back and Better than Ever
We’ve got exciting news for the Tableau community: The Netherlands Tableau User Group (TUG) is officially meeting again! And we wouldn’t dream of missing out. Hopefully, the short video above and my...
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Making a Case for Tableau Tooltips
As purveyors of analytics, we often come against the buttresses of change aversion. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the lack of acceptance of Tableau tooltips. How often do you present your end...
View ArticlePYD44 - Alberto Cairo - Visual Trumpery
Returning to Podcast Your Data! this week is Alberto Cairo! You may remember him from one of our very first podcasts over a year ago. As the Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the University of...
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Questions from Tableau Training: Top N Highlight Table
While teaching a Desktop I and II Accelerated class last week in Perth, I got an interesting question from a Tableau student named Clint."Can you make a highlight dynamic so that it will highlight just...
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My Machine Learning Journey: Introduction
I finally cracked and decided to shove everything in my personal life aside for the next few months to take on Udacity’s Machine Learning Nanodegree Program. Goodbye video games and ice-cold beer! On...
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Fun with Window Functions in Tableau
Table calculations are one of the hardest functions to understand in Tableau Desktop. A lot of us are guilty of clicking through every single option on the table calculation window until we find...
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Tableau Viz: How Much Heat Can You Handle?
It might sound controversial, but a common practice in my family (and many families throughout Louisiana) was something called "hotsaucing." What exactly is that? When your a kid acts up, you punish...
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Study Tips for the Alteryx Partner Technical Certification
Alteryx has recently revamped their entire certification process. As such, they have introduced a new Partner Technical Certification Program. This is a certification for the employees of...
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How Tableau is Changing Self-Service Data Governance
While the annual data-nerd conference (TC17) was underway, you may have seen me beaming from ear to ear as Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky busted many data myths during his keynote speech. One myth I was...
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How to Build Company-Wide Connectivity with Tableau
Tableau isn't just a useful tool for visualising and analysing data. There's no doubt it has enabled me to improve and optimise my team, but there's another benefit I did not initially appreciate when...
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Tableau Extended: The Product Line
InterWorks has created several blog series targeting Tableau users, including the Tableau Essentials series, the Tableau Performance Checklist and my own Tableau Deep Dives. These articles are among...
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A Data Science Treatise: Part One - Failure
One of my least favorite phrases currently being used in the analytics world is “data science.” This is ironic since “data science” is in my official InterWorks job title. But every time I hear the...
View ArticlePYD45 - Oliver Wise - Analytics and Local Government
Today, we've got a special political edition of Podcast Your Data! InterWorks'Michael Treadwell discusses data analytics in local government with Oliver Wise. As the Director of Performance and...
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Building a Washington, D.C. Museum Crawl with Tableau
Washington, D.C. is packed with incredible places to visit. As someone who didn’t grow up near the U.S. capital, I am constantly amazed during each visit by the access to museums, culture and history I...
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Hot-Swapping Dimensions with LOD Expressions in Tableau
During a recent project, I received an interesting question:“Can we swap what dimension is displayed in a stacked bar chart based on a filter being applied?”I’ve decided it would be easier for me to...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup - October 2017
Has everyone recovered from the 2017 Tableau Conference? We sure haven’t! From the keynotes, Data Night Out and all the informative sessions, we are still riding high from Vegas. There were so many...
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