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InterWorks Desks Around the World
When you’re a global data consultancy, the work environment can vary greatly from person to person. For some InterWorkers, their workspace consists of an expansive desk in one of our offices with...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – October 2018
Double, double, toil and trouble! October didn’t just bring Halloween. With a little help from InterWorks, it brought you lots of new data knowledge to dive into, not the least of which were some...
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InterWorks Is One of the “Best Places to Work in Oklahoma”
InterWorks was recently recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in Oklahoma” once again! We are thrilled to receive this recognition and are even more excited to have a company and culture that...
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Advance with Assist: Removing Options from Filter List
Question: I have a long list of products in my data, but I no longer want the user to be able to select a certain few. I don’t want to exclude the data from my extract, so what other options do I...
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Thoughts on My 2018 Tableau Conference Experience
A week on from the excitement of the 2018 Tableau Conference, I thought it would be good to add to the ever-growing number of blog posts looking back on a week of data, excitement and Tableau. Getting...
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Recapping Our Favorite Sessions from TC18
Tableau Conference is known for a lot of things, not the least of which are the fantastic sessions from Tableau customers and partners. This year featured some of our favorite sessions to date,...
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Why Designing for Data Matters
“Hey, there are some leftover sandwiches from today’s TUG in the kitchen if anyone wants some.” “Well, I was planning on being at that meeting, but I got pulled in to help with the TUG on Thursday.”...
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PYD71 – Duane Pierce
The podcast heads back to Singapore with Jia to talk to Duane Pierce. Duane started the Singapore Tableau User Group, so you could say he knows what he’s talking about. Jia goes behind the...
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Class Notes from TC18 Devs on Stage
What a week at Tableau conference! I had a great time catching up with some former students, and for all of us, one of the biggest highlights was the fabulous Devs on Stage keynote. For those...
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Questions from Tableau Training: Isolating Rank with Parameters and Calculations
“I have sales information about all 50 states, but I only want to see a single state and how it ranks. Sounds like a table calculation, but there’s a catch. Table calculations in Tableau only compute...
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Advance with Assist: Extracting Year from De-identified Text String
Question: I have some de-identified data where the date is buried in different starting points within a text string. In Tableau, is there a way to find the year of participation without asking for...
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How I Went from a High School English Teacher to a Content Intern
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.” Albus Dumbledore via J.K. Rowling I have been a lover of language...
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Why Data in One Place Matters: Data Warehousing with Fivetran
Image above courtesy of Fivetran Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about Snowflake, a cloud data warehouse that brings joy to the world of analytics. While I’ve spent a good amount of time outlining the...
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Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Data Manager Calculated Fields
Do you ever feel like your computer should do more of the heavy lifting? You had to pay good money for it, and it eats a lot of your electricity. Why should you have to work harder than you need to...
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Portals for Tableau 101: Slideshows
Who has two thumbs and loves Slideshows in Portals for Tableau? You, after reading this blog post! I apologize to those reading that don’t have two thumbs—you can love Slideshows, too. This post will...
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Portals for Tableau 101: AWS CloudFormation
You’ve been tasked with installing Portals for Tableau, and your IT prefers using AWS CloudFormations. The bad news is that this is all new to you, so you’re not sure how to proceed. The good news is...
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Makeover Monday: Most Expensive Housing Markets
This week’s Makeover Monday project focused on how expensive it is to own a home in major cities across the United States. The original article presented the data as the number of hours of work it...
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Advance with Assist: Marking the Latest Date on Trend Line
Question: I’ve been making updates to our Tableau visualizations, and I can’t seem to figure out how to create a mark on the latest date. I also would like to know whether that mark is more or less...
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PYD72 – TC18 Recap With Katie Wagner
This week’s podcast takes it back to Tableau Conference 2018. InterWorks analytics practice lead Ben Bausili interviews Katie Wagner, a lead Tableau trainer, about the week in her beloved home state of...
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Tableau Prep Takes the Pain out of Data Preparation
Before we look at data preparation using Excel and Tableau Prep, we need to ask a question. It’s always a healthy discipline to ask questions first and use technology to answer them second. Take a look...
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