Portals for Tableau: The Year’s Biggest Features
2017 was without a doubt the year of embedded analytics. So, we wanted to emphasize the year’s biggest wins for our version of embedded analytics, Portals for Tableau.It may seem small, but this year...
View ArticlePYD48 - Recapping 2017
It’s the final Podcast Your Data! episode of the year, and we’re looking back at an exciting 2017! Robert Rouse and David Pires talk about TC17, new technologies and the year’s best data books. Plus,...
View ArticleThe 2017 InterWorks Blog Roundup
Time really does fly when you're having fun publishing amazing content! 2017 was a huge year for our blog, and it wouldn't have been possible without our fellow InterWorkers sharing their work with us....
View ArticleVideo Recap: Experiencing InterWorks Europe
It’s the end of December and naturally a time to reflect on the past year. I joined InterWorks in May. and the few months since then have been intense but exciting. My latest video above only shows a...
View ArticleLooking Back at the 2017 InterWorks Summit
Two weeks ago in Stillwater, Oklahoma, InterWorks hosted our first combined Company Summit. Why is that important? For the first time, IT, Sales, BI, Ops, HR and Marketing gathered together for an...
View ArticleAnalytics for the Holidays: The Top 30 Christmas Movies in Tableau
"Which is your favorite Christmas movie?" is a question often asked during the holiday season. And an even more convoluted question, "Is Die Hard really a Christmas Movie?" I decided to try and answer...
View ArticleQuestions from Tableau Training: How to Use Specific Dimensions in Table...
In a Desktop II: Intermediate course I recently taught, a student asked, “When would I ever need the specific dimensions option with table calculations?” This is a great question! We know that we can...
View ArticleTableau Deep Dive: Table Calculations - Custom Sorts, Part Two
In part one of this two-parter, I went into a lot of depth on how to use custom sorts within table calculations. I highly recommend reading that article first before continuing with the second part. In...
View ArticleHow to Load Data from JSON to EXASOL
If you’ve been looking for a way to load JSON data into EXASOL with just a click, then you’ll love this post! As data scientists, most of our time is spent preparing data for analysis and modeling. In...
View ArticleHow to Use Docker to Create an Office 365 Mail Relay
I've recently worked with several migrations of on-premises Microsoft Exchange to Office 365. Whenever the mail server moves off-site, some on-site services must be reconfigured in order for it to work...
View Article12 Months of Tableau
As most bloggers are closing their year with a retrospective post, I thought I’d do something similar but with a twist. I’d like to look at Tableau’s last 12 months. In fact, I’ll start all the way...
View ArticleInterWorks Blog Roundup - December 2017
2018 is finally here and we’ve got a lot queued up for the blog this year! One aspect we’re currently focused on is how we can “out do” ourselves. After all, 2017 was pretty epic for our blog and...
View ArticleEvent Debrief - December 2017
Whether you’re a Buddy-the-Elf type or a Scrooge, we could possibly all agree on one thing: December may be the most wonderful time of the year, but it’s also the busiest! From family Christmas...
View ArticleMeltdown and Spectre Vulnerability Information
On January 2, 2018 a major vulnerability was disclosed that impacts nearly all end user and server technology in use today. This notice is meant to urge you to pay special attention to systems that are...
View ArticleImproving Your Dynamic or Repeated Text in Tableau
One of the many helpful features in Tableau is the ability to create dynamic text boxes that update depending on user selection or other events on the dashboard. It’s a common practice to use...
View ArticleHow to Use Kaseya to Detect Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerable Machines
To help detect client Windows machines that are vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre at the OS and Hardware level, we built a Kaseya agent procedure to aid our own admins. This may also help you find...
View ArticleThe Quantified Car: Part Two - Path Maps
In this installment of The Quantified Car series, I want to discuss path maps. We know that Tableau can draw polygon or filled maps, but it can also draw points on a map using circle marks. Path maps...
View ArticleTableau Server on Linux Is Here. Should You Make the Switch?
There’s significant merit to the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” If you’re currently running Tableau Server in your organization on Windows, but considering making the switch to Linux,...
View ArticlePYD49 - Tableau 10.5 Updates
It’s the first Podcast Your Data! episode of the new year, and there is already plenty to discuss. We have a full cast of characters as Robert Rouse, Tony Kau and Brad Fair team up for a roundtable...
View ArticleTableau Releases Hyper in Version 10.5
TL;DR: Hyper is much faster at extracting data. Like, so fast.Not many Tableau releases have had the size and expectations surrounding it like 10.5. The only other release I can think of that had...
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