Get Schooled at TC18
Although I’ve attended Tableau Conference as an InterWorks client before, this is going to be my first TC as an IW employee, and I couldn’t be more excited to see my former students and hear what...
View ArticleTableau and Snowflake: A Match Made in Data Heaven
If you’ve followed any of my previous blog posts, it’s pretty obvious that I am beyond excited about Snowflake. I have been working with the cloud data warehouse for about four months now, and it has...
View ArticleLagniappe from Locals: A TC18 Experience Guide for NOLA
Imagine you’re hanging out in Vegas during Tableau Conference 2017, soaking in every last minute of the excitement of conference week. Imagine you’re maybe a little sleepy…it has been quite a week,...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the Remix
This week, InterWorks is unveiling our theme for Tableau Conference 2018: “Remix Your Data Experience.” Deciding on a theme was a process spread out over the better part of a year, and it’s an immense...
View ArticlePYD69 – Tableau Conference 2018 with David Pires Part 2
As Tableau Conference 2018 draws closer, we can barely contain our excitement about connecting with you in New Orleans! To help channel our enthusiasm, here’s the second part of our Tableau Social...
View ArticleQuestions from Tableau Training: Moving Column Headers to the Top of the View
“Tableau is an Excel complement, not an Excel replacement.” Whenever I teach a training class, I make this point multiple times throughout the course. Each tool has its own set of specialties and...
View ArticleThe Spatial Join: New Horizons in Mapping Tools
Hey, party people! Guess what time it is? It’s Mappy Hour! via GIPHY Tableau has been cranking out new mapping features left and right, but few have had me as excited as the spatial join with the...
View ArticleAdvance with Assist: Changing Default Properties on Data
We receive CSV files from our data provider which we pull into Prep. We then unionize them and output a Tableau online server file. The question is: Why can’t we edit the default properties? If you are...
View ArticlePYD70 – Debating Dashboard Design
You want your hard work to get noticed, right? When it comes to designing visualizations and dashboards, getting your work noticed and making it useful have typically come with some sort of sacrifices...
View ArticleLevel Up Your Analytics with Dataiku for Windows
Sometimes you find a tool that blows you away with its capabilities and get eager to utilize it in your day-to-day work with data. Dataiku was one of those for me. It doesn’t run on Windows natively,...
View ArticleMap Out the College Search with Tableau
I went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for my undergraduate degree, and it was one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve ever had. However, it’s surprising to me that I ended up in...
View ArticleHow InterWorks’ IT Service Model Is Different
Most IT service providers have a set menu of offerings you can choose from. They define exactly how their technology will be delivered, and they don’t make exceptions. That makes sense for them, but it...
View ArticleWEBINAR: Analytics for Compliance, Monitoring and Audit
How to get ahead of non-compliance Finance teams typically chase down non-compliant activity after the fact in an attempt to minimise the damage. However, with a modern analytics platform like Tableau...
View ArticleCreating Automation Scenarios in Dataiku
The wheel. The lightbulb. The internet. Dataiku. All revolutionary creations that disrupted life itself. Okay, well, maybe Dataiku won’t disrupt life itself. It will, however, continue to push the data...
View ArticleRecap of Mainland Team Day in Nuremberg
My question to you: When you have the best colleagues who are smart and nerdy, what could be better than spending some time together puzzling out a relevant and useful data solution? To me, there is...
View ArticleFull Moon Rising: Alteryx to the Rescue
It all started when I wanted to make a dashboard on the correlation between the brightness of the moon and crime activity. It’s one of those things everyone has heard in their life whenever crime or...
View ArticleJoin InterWorks at Dataiku’s EGG Conference 2018
We’re so thrilled to be a sponsor of Dataiku’s EGG Conference 2018! This conference draws some of the leading pioneers, leaders and thinkers in the data science industry. Hear some of the brightest...
View ArticleAdvance with Assist: Options for Calculating Percentages
Question: My calculation for percentage isn’t returning the right values, but the data is there. I’m getting the sum of a single product, not the full sum. What do I need to do? Understanding what...
View ArticleThe Key to Embedded Analytics: Portals for Tableau
“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” – Doc Brown, 1985/2015 We’ve all got hopes about the future of technology, and they can’t all be right. Flying cars haven’t arrived, but a lot of good things...
View ArticleHow I Learned Tableau Prep Is Awesome
I don’t blog often, but when I do, I blog about something awesome. This is the case with Tableau Prep. Tableau Prep has been out for a while, but I had not yet given it a hard look until recently. The...
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