Tableau Quick Tip: Top N and Bottom N Filters
For anyone attending a Tableau training on the second day, we will often teach how to create a Top N filter. This is a very commonly used tip by Tableau authors. Often the analysis asks us to filter...
View ArticlePYD53 - Tableau Performance
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! We’re officially two years old. Thank you for being a part of our community for the past two years. We have some exciting updates to the show that we’ll implement in upcoming...
View ArticleVisualizing 7 Years of Movement on the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released their annual BI Magic Quadrant, which shows the top players in the BI space and ranks them in relation to each other. InterWorks partner Tableau Software is perennially in the...
View ArticlePredicting March Madness in Tableau: 2018 Edition
March Madness is upon us once again! As is tradition, I've applied my knowledge of data with my love of hoops to update two March Madness data visualizations in Tableau. These dashboards are largely...
View ArticleOpen Data Viz: San Francisco 311 Calls
Living in one of the most populated cities in the country, San Francisco comes with many perks. There is an endless number of events, unique neighborhoods around every corner and good public...
View ArticleBuilding InterWorks Australia: Start with Rambo, then Form Voltron
There’s a unifying thread among InterWorks employees that you might have noticed in blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and more: We really like this company, we really like the people we work with and we...
View ArticlePortals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: REST API Version Checker
Do you suffer from an irrational fear of robots, drones or mechanical sentient beings? Do you get anxiety when you think of the phrase, “artificial intelligence,” see someone dancing with quick and...
View ArticleInterWorks Partners with Dataiku to Democratize Data Science and Data...
We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks is officially a Dataiku partner! Dataiku is a collaborative data science platform designed to reduce the time and effort it takes to use data science...
View Article3 Reasons to Attend to Your Local Tableau User Group
About a month ago, we created a Podcast Your Data! episode about Tableau user groups (TUGs) where Dan Murray hosted Andy Piper (one of the leaders of Atlanta TUG), Kent Sloan (Oklahoma City TUG) and...
View ArticleData & Espresso: The Pursuit of the ‘God Shot’
It's the combination of everything coming together perfectly: a glorious blend of texture, aroma and taste. It is a beverage bordering on the divine that represents the purest essence of coffee. It is...
View ArticleWhich 14er Should I Climb?
Bagging 14ers is all the rage in Colorado, right up there with counting how many days you’ve skied and how long you waited in line for brunch at Snooze. They are badges of honor that many of us wear to...
View ArticlePortals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Dashboard List Filters
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. Looking back early in your career, if you needed to crunch some numbers, you clicked on Microsoft Excel, figured out how to get your data into the spreadsheet,...
View ArticlePYD54 - Gartner & Self-Service Analytics
Magic is what happens when our panel gets together. Magic and gold. This week’s show is a lot of both as Brad, Ben, Kate and Mat talk about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Tools,...
View ArticleInterWorks Named to the 2018 CRN Tech Elite 250
We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks ranked among the 2018 CRN Tech Elite 250! The award recognizes outstanding IT solution providers across North America based on their technical chops, i.e. the...
View ArticleThe Secret to Tableau Server Optimization: Kenny G
Is your Tableau Server bogged down with endless extracts? Is your VizQL Server struggling to render your complex visualizations? A slow dashboard is a useless dashboard. Performance is...
View ArticleInterWorks to Open New Office in Wakanda
InterWorks has found great success in expanding operations to include Europe, Asia and now Australia. InterWorks' CEO and Founder was proud to announce the next venture: Wakanda. According to Behfar...
View ArticlePortals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Cheat Codes and Easter Eggs
Even though Portals for Tableau are serious about business, that doesn’t mean they don’t have a fun side. You may have noticed that we like what we do at InterWorks and that is reflected in our work....
View ArticleTableau Desktop Now Available in Dothraki
With aims to broaden their global customer base, Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) announced today a Dothraki language version. The excitement in the Grass Sea resounding among the Horde user groups was...
View ArticleInterWorks Blog Roundup – March 2018
Can you believe that we're already a full quarter into 2018? March brought with it some fantastic content. In addition to our usual Tableau and data visualization fare, we have a handful of blog posts...
View ArticlePinball Across the US
Everyone who knows me, knows I love pinball. To me, pinball is a wonderful mixture of art, physics, design and history that's intertwined into a gameplay that's both analog and digital. It's not just...
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