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InterWorks Blog Roundup – August 2018
The InterWorks blog record books have been broken. With a whopping 46 blog posts and 32 contributors, it’s safe to say our crew delivered the goods in August. For you, this means a whole lot of...
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Advance with Assist: Parameter Performance Optimization
Question: “I added a calculation that uses a parameter input and my dashboard is a lot slower now. How can I make it faster?” Example Calculation Some common reasons to include user-selected values...
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Disney Data & Analytics Conference 2018: Sharing the Magic
We have a few (super) fans of Disney here at InterWorks, including me, so it was natural for us to be curious about what was going on at the Disney Data and Analytics Conference this year. A small...
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PYD66 – Sports and Data with George Chahrouri of Pro Football Focus
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!? It’s officially football season, meaning armchair quarterbacks, pick six packs, and, of course, fantasy football! George Chahrouri of Pro Football Focus joins our...
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Using Python to Add External Data to Your Reporting Environment
Python is quickly becoming the first programming language exposed to non-tech folks. While working on my data pipeline, I found a perfect example of how you can use Python to bring external data into...
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Questions from Tableau Training: Union File Names as Years
There is an example we do in the Tableau Desktop Intermediate course to look at how to union your data. In the example, we use Tableau’s Union function to append different sheets, labeled as different...
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Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Workbook Tabs
Portals for Tableau have had the ability to show a sort of live view of the workbooks and dashboards within those workbooks as a part of the navigation for a while now (see this post for more info);...
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A Quick Exasol Script for Building Python UDFs
A client recently had a challenge wanting to use Exasol’s User-Defined Functions with a Python script, but they were having a hard time coming up with the right syntax to get it working properly....
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Viz for Social Good: United Nations Development Program
Yet another great project came out this month from the folks at Viz for Social Good. This time around, we’re exploring data from the United Nations Development Programme to help build a crisis risk...
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To TSM and Beyond: The New Frontier of Tableau Server in 2018.2
Automating Tableau Server Backups Tableau recently released the latest evolution of their analytics platform: 2018.2. Unless you have been living under metaphorical data analytics rock, you should...
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Creating a Scorecard in Portals for Tableau
Scorecards are used to observe KPI’s over time, are incredibly valuable for real-time business insights and are available for use in Portals for Tableau! This post will go into how to create the...
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Remixing Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the 21st Century’ with Tableau
A couple of summers ago, I read a short 577-page book on the dynamics of wealth and income inequality by the French economist Thomas Piketty. This book had kind of become a huge deal in the field of...
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A Use Case for Tableau Prep: Using a ‘Master Table’ to See All Records
Here’s the scenario: I work at Global Superstore. We sell products from lots of different sub-categories. I can always reference this from our Master Inventory File: I get weekly sales data sent to me,...
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My Thoughts on the 2018 Quantrix Dimension Conference
Four years ago, I wrote a blog post speculating about future business intelligence workflow and tools for business information systems that would provide the capabilities of high-priced legacy...
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Visualizing Canada’s ‘Species at Risk Public Registry’ in Tableau
The good people over at the Species at Risk Public Registry, sararegistry.gc.ca, which is part of the Government of Canada, provide website visitors with a list of species monitored by the Ministry for...
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Tableau Extensions: Natural Language Generation with Wordsmith by Automated...
Tableau 2018.2 brought us a few new features, including the Services Manager, spatial data join and Dashboard Extensions. All of these features are neat and handy for their relative use cases, but...
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Portals for Tableau 101: Data Manager
If you haven’t used the Data Manager in Portals for Tableau before, you may not have a good grasp of what it does. In a nutshell, it is a simple form builder. You can think of its groups as forms,...
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Learning Technology on the EDGE
The consequence of a dynamic environment is the need to know it all, or at least the perceived need to know more than anyone else. That is what makes one consultant shine over all the others – a...
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Data Always Tells a Story: Salary Disparity in Major League Baseball
The Journey Begins In my 18+ year career, I’ve been around data in many different forms and fashions. From roles as a DBA to those in innovation and business intelligence, data has always been integral...
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The Top 5 Features in Dataiku 5.0
Data users rejoice! Dataiku 5.0 has been released, and it brings with it fresh new features. Dataiku has always been an amazing tool for building data products as a team. With the release of Dataiku...
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