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PYD67: Disney Data & Analytics Conference 2018 Recap
Who doesn’t love a little magic? Many of us at InterWorks are HUGE fans of Disney. So when we heard about Disney Data and Analytics Conference, we knew it was one we had to check out. Ben and Robert...
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InterWorks Named 2018 Snowflake Solution Partner of the Year
We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks was just named the 2018 Snowflake Solutions Partner of the Year! Here’s how it went down. Snowflake Computing, the creators of what we believe to be the best...
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Advance with Assist: Using Custom Backgrounds with Polygon Shapefiles
You have a shapefile. You have a custom background. They belong together. Now it’s just a matter of figuring out how to make it work in Tableau … This is a common challenge we get in both Tableau...
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Stuck on a Tableau Chart? Try Drawing It First!
For this week’s #MakeoverMonday project, I wanted to build a divergent stacked bar chart. I used to create these charts every so often in my last job, but I did it by opening up an old Tableau workbook...
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Portals for Tableau 101: Inline Commenting on Dashboards
Are you so accustomed to sharing your insightful opinions on the day’s biggest headlines via Facebook comments that it just irks you not to be able to with your company’s Tableau dashboard? Well, the...
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Portals for Tableau 101: Public Pages and Dashboards
How to Create Public Pages The most commonly used feature of our portal is one that is easily overlooked: it is the ability to protect content behind a login. However, sometimes you have content that...
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Introducing InterWorks Assist Now: Live Support for Your Data Needs
The Evolution of InterWorks Assist InterWorks Assist was launched back in 2016 for clients who needed quick, personal attention to their requests via email. As the offering continued to grow, we...
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Debriefing My Trip to Dataiku HQ
Recently, David Siegel, Rachel Kurtz and I spent the day with the team over at Dataiku HQ in New York to learn about the platform and celebrate the release of the new DSS 5.0. It was a very productive...
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Using Automated Workflows in Tableau Prep
I’m a big fan of Tableau Prep. In the same way that Tableau was introduced to bring data visualisation to the masses, Tableau Prep is trying to bring data preparation to the desks of analysts around...
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Questions from Tableau Training: Conditional Coloring on Sparklines
In the Tableau Desktop III: Advanced course, we teach you how to build sparklines, with the added bonus of using a dual axis to create a circle for the last sales value. This circle highlights that...
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Creating a Narrative for Your Data with Wordsmith and Tableau
Are you as excited as I am for Tableau Extensions? Probably not. I’m pretty excited. I already wrote a blog post about it. Unfortunately, Tableau Public doesn’t support them yet (at the time I wrote...
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How to Calculate XIRR in Tableau with Python
Me: “I’ll take Python for $200, Trebek.” Trebek: “The time it takes for you to create a hand-coded XIRR calculation in Python for use in Tableau’s TabPy?” Me: “What is ‘a long time’?” Trebek:...
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Hiding Data in Tableau with Table Calculations and Level of Detail Calculations
Have you ever wanted to hide some of your data but not filter it? In this article, I will demonstrate how to hide certain pieces of data without filtering them out of the calculation results. I’ll be...
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Tableau User Adoption: Lessons from Swiss Re
When talking about data-driven culture deployment and Tableau user adoption, there are many components that can contribute to the overall process and help make it successful. One of these components is...
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Heatmaps and Heat Maps and Highlights, Oh My!
Let’s talk Tableau. As an accredited Tableau instructor (and a self-proclaimed Hermione Granger), I’ve got a question that just won’t leave my mind: it has to do with heat maps and highlight tables....
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PYD68 – Tableau Conference 2018 with David Pires
Well, Tableau Conference is almost here and we’re so excited to meet you down in New Orleans. In preparation for all that jazz, David Pires, our own Tableau Social Media Ambassador, chats with a host...
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Denver Startup Week 2018: The Best Conference You Didn’t Know About
Another great Denver Startup Week has come to a close with over 16,000 registrants engaging in all aspects of the weeklong event. The event brings together people from all realms into one energized and...
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InterWorks Anticipates 13th Annual InnoTech Oklahoma
That most wonderful time of the year is drawing closer: InnoTech Oklahoma! This year’s event takes place on November 1 and returns to the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City. This annual conference...
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How Rich Are the Crazy Rich Asians of Singapore?
Two months ago, my wife and I got married, moved across the world and started new jobs—all within TEN DAYS! Stressful, but all of that was worth it because we now live in Singapore, an amazing country...
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InterWorks Is Ready to Mix Things Up at Tableau Conference 2018
It’s almost time. The biggest event on our calendar in October. No, it’s not Halloween. It’s not Daylight Savings. It’s not any single sports events. It’s not even your birthday, should it fall in...
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