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Outer Joining Multiple Excel Tables in Tableau 8
ScenarioOur sales team collects information and forecasts possible sales using a data-table called ‘Opportunities’. If a sales opportunity converts to an actual sales lead, the customer and his...
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Tableau Software Partners with DataSift, Google BigQuery
Tableau, DataSift and Google BigQuery are intent on taking social media analytics to the next level. The three recently forged a partnership that will enable users to seamlessly integrate their data...
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InterWorks Ranked #3 in 'Best Places to Work In Oklahoma' Competition
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. – okcBiz Magazine ranked InterWorks #3 in their recent Best Places to Work in Oklahoma competition. This marks the third consecutive year in which InterWorks made the top 10 in the...
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Everpix
Download:TT_Everpix.mp3Are you still organizing the photos on your smartphone with albums? There is a better way. Let’s face it: we’re taking more photos than we used to, and the idea of the photo...
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InterWorks to Attend HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Force
STILLWATER, OKLA. – A large contingency of InterWorks team members will attend the upcoming HP Vertica Big Data Conference in August. Included in the group are several InterWorks database developers...
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Editing Connections in Tableau
A Quick Way to Reengineer Worksheets & Workbooks for New Data - Imagine you are receiving updated versions of the same or similar set of data. Possibly, you are sent an excel file each week with...
View ArticlePowershell: How to encrypt and store credentials securely for use with...
I recently worked on a quick and dirty Powershell script to send me email notifications when content on a web page changed. To send the email, I also went for the quick and dirty method and just used...
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Creating Email Notifications for Complete Tableau Extracts
Is your Tableau extract done? Don’t wait to find out! Send yourself (or a group) an email. If you haven’t already, make sure you’ve done this and this. Oh, and make sure you’ve got PowerShell v3...
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Apple's New Patent
Download:TT_ApplesNewPatent.mp3Apple just recently got its hands on a swanky new patent for a distinctive bezel technology. Just so we’re all on the same page here, the bezel of a mobile device is the...
View ArticleBig Changes in Vertica 6.1 SP2 (6.1.2)
About a month ago, HP Vertica released its latest service pack, HP Vertica 6.1 Service Pack 2 (version 6.1.2). It may sound like a small release, but the service pack actually includes a couple of...
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Microsoft Outlook - Exchange is unavailable, Outlook must be online or...
The Issue:I ran across an interesting issue today while setting up a new laptop in which I was getting an error while trying to add a new email account. During the process Outlook informed me that,...
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InterWorks Named Silver Sponsor for HP Vertica Big Data Conference
InterWorks was recently named a Silver Sponsor for the inaugural HP Vertica Big Data Conference.The conference will address current challenges, upcoming trends and Vertica success stories in the Big...
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Tableau Online - Cloud-Based Tableau Server Hosting Now Available
Tableau Server is officially online.Users can now take advantage of their data from virtually anywhere with Tableau Online, a hosted (SaaS) version of Tableau Server. The benefits of a comprehensive,...
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Tableau Table Calculations and Reference Lines: Extending the Default Panes
Some fun Table Calculation questions came in this week. With four hours in the air heading home to New York from Portland, OR, I thought I’d quickly add these to the learning library. Here’s the first...
View ArticleProper Care and Feeding of Vertica (Part One)
(This is a multi-part series about the proper care & feeding of a Vertica cluster. There’s simply too much content for one post, so I’ll be splitting this up into a three-part series. Check back in...
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jKal: Yet another jQuery datepicker plugin
jKal is a simple jQuery based datepicker plugin. I built this for a project with a very specific need, and felt it worked well enough that it might be of benefit to others. jKal ScreenshotjKal works...
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20-Minute Tableau Viz: Legal Medical Marijuana
I saw an interesting post and data set this morning from ProCon.org. The information was in tabular form, so I copied it and extracted the data into Tableau. 20 minutes later, I had a fully-interactive...
View ArticleExploring Tableau Workbooks with PowerShell, Part 1: Opening Workbooks
In this mini-series I'm going to show you some cookbook style examples for using PowerShell to explore your Tableau workbooks. Follow along, this is going to be fun!Tableau workbooks (TWB files) are...
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Viewfinder Beta
Download:TT_Viewfinder.mp3A team of ex-Googlers based out of Seattle and New York is debuting a new application that not only serves as a photo utilization tool, but a private social network of sorts...
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Google Chromecast
Download:TT_googleChromecast.mp3Google just released a simple (and incredibly cheap) tool to stream video from your mobile device to your TV. It’s called Google Chromecast, and priced at thirty-five...
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