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Advance with Assist: What You Need to Know about Aliases
Question: I know I’m doing something wrong. When building views, my alias in one view overwrites my alias in another. I know I’m missing something here. Can you fill in what I’m missing? When building...
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A Deep Dive into Tableau’s Format Pane
If you have ever been in one of my Tableau training courses, you have probably heard me refer to Tableau’s format pane as “the Bermuda Triangle of Tableau” because it can be easy to get lost. What is...
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What It’s Like to Run Support for an IT Company
I recently caught up with Eli Sprague, global IT support manager at InterWorks, and spoke with him about his journey with the company, the ins and outs of working in technology, and what work in an IT...
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WEBINAR: The Better Way to Migrate Tableau Workbooks on Server
Migrating Tableau workbooks and data sources from one server environment to another can be a complicated task that requires significant time and expertise. The good news is that is doesn’t have to be...
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How to Build a Persistent Staging Area in Snowflake Using Matillion
There are things in this world that data engineers love and hate. For example, they love green and hate red. Green is good, but when you see red, the ETL job is dead! Data engineers also love seeing...
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PYD73 – Henry Zhu
A little change of pace this show. Today, Robert talks with Henry Zhu, one of the core maintainers of Babel, about open source and what it means for people and software, community, and development....
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Webinar Recap: A Better Way to Migrate Tableau Workbooks
I’ve worked with Charlie Sanders for several years now, and I recently got the chance to catch up with him on this lunchtime webinar. Charlie is a principal consultant here at InterWorks, and he also...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – November 2018
November is known as a month of giving thanks, and we are certainly grateful for the solid content published on the blog this last month! With 26 posts and over 20 contributors, we’ve got a lot to be...
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Advance with Assist: Function Compatibility
Question: I’m trying to remove the decimal from my report, but I’m getting unexpected results. With FLOOR or ROUND on my calculation, I still have a decimal. How can I remove it without formatting in...
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Unlock Tableau’s Generated Latitude and Longitude
Calculated fields are awesome. They can be used to discover incredible insights in your data by using fields from your original data source. But there is one limitation to calculated fields: using...
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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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Advance with Assist: Mass Parameter Replacement
Question: In my workbook, I’ve created my own problem. I have three parameters that are identical. I’d like to only need to update one, so is there a way to swap these without having to go to every...
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Tableau Prep Workflow Automation Made Simple
So, you have this dashboard. It’s a super cool dashboard. You’ve also got an elaborate Tableau Prep workflow to feed your dashboard. Unfortunately, time didn’t stop as soon as you finished this...
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What’s in a Name (Badge)? A Snapshot of InterWorks Summit
InterWorks creates a culture that makes it feel like a small company: tightknit, authentic and unabashedly quirky. But in reality, we’re a company of 250+ employees scattered throughout the globe!...
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Portals for Tableau 101: Hosting Images for Themes
As you probably know by now, Portals for Tableau can have a completely custom theme. Each portal can look completely different from every other portal. On top of that, a single portal can look...
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PYD74 – Daniel Whitenack and Artificial Intelligence
It’s something that keeps us all up at night – will the robots take over tomorrow? Okay, maybe you don’t worry about it. And neither does Daniel Whitenack. Daniel is a data scientist, professor,...
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Advance with Assist: Sorting with MONTH in Reverse
Question: I thought this would be easy and just a check somewhere, but I can’t figure out how to reverse the order of the colors. As new months are added, they go to the left. I want them on the...
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A Quick and Easy Way to Get Active Directory Counts
When investigating an existing domain for a potential upgrade or clean-up, it’s necessary to gauge the number of Active Directory (AD) objects in order to decide how many domain controllers are needed....
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Explore Your Personality Type in Tableau
I have always been interested in personality types. They are helpful in giving clues into how people think and behave. So, I wanted to build a dashboard to allow people to explore how they compare to...
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Finding the Elusive Underlying Moving Average
Table calculations enable you to do amazing things in Tableau. However, these work off of data that has already been aggregated. For example, a moving average is the moving average of the sum of some...
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