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Advance with Assist: Adding Email Links to Your Dashboard
Question: I’m building a public dashboard and want to get a “Contact Us” link on the screen. How do I make the email pop up? Adding the ability for your end user to reach back out to you via your...
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Analytics Explained: Describing Our World
Descriptive analytics is all about answering simple questions like: How much did we sell last week? Which customers bought the most from us? How much inventory do we have left? It would be wrong,...
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So, You’d Rather Not Die in a Plane Crash?
You’re someone who travels a lot. Perhaps you’re drawn to sandy beaches or snowy peaks, or maybe you’ve just landed a job as a traveling consultant. Jet-setter that you are, you settle into your seat,...
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Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Favorites Score
People like knowing when they share the popular opinion or when they’ve found some undiscovered gem. Sometimes it confirms that they are a normal member of society. Other times, it gives them bragging...
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Spotify Wrapped: InterWorks’ 2018 in Music
If you’re subscribed to a music-streaming service, chances are high that you use Spotify. And if you use Spotify, you probably received a Spotify Wrapped summary of your listening habits for 2018. This...
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How I Went from College Track Runner to Wedding Photographer to Marketing...
I never say no. I get bored easily. I’m an adrenaline junkie. My closet is a mess. And I’ve only finished about four books in my entire life. When I was young, I wanted to do whatever sounded exciting...
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Advance with Assist: Saving User-Selected Filters on Tableau Server
Question: Our users are finding themselves clicking the same filters when they log onto dashboards they have access to. They are curious if there is a way for us to isolate the data for them only. How...
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PYD76 – Year in Review and Preview
2018 was a big year for data but can 2019 be even bigger? Ben, Robert and Michael look back at the year that was and what they are looking forward to the most. Could 2019 be the year for [insert your...
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How I Went from Sales Support to Practice Lead
I never imagined I would one day become an analytics consultant. With the benefit of hindsight, I know it was a great career choice for me but one made more through luck and opportunity than design....
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Offerings from the Tableau Bar Chart Menu
Note: As I was working on this dashboard, Jeff Schaffer posted a very similar idea. Visit this page for his perspectives and variations on this theme. When you need to decide what chart type is best...
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Creating Customized Legends in Tableau
Create a legend. Show a legend. Be a legend. Tableau developers love a succinct workaround, especially when that workaround is more flexible, more intuitive and just as robust as the out-of-the-box...
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Changes in Licensing and Site Roles When Upgrading Tableau Server
It can be a challenge to know exactly what happens in regard to Tableau Server licensing and site roles when you plan to upgrade, especially from a pre-2018.1 version. Here, I tested all potential site...
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Analytics Explained: Understanding Our World
So far in this series, we’ve laid a foundation for the analytics conversation, and we’ve discussed descriptive, or type 2, analytics. Now, we’re going to dive deeper into how we can apply this in more...
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Digital Nomad: A Year in the Life
In the musical Rent, the song “Seasons of Love” asks us how we measure a year: in daylights, in sunsets, in cups of coffee, in inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife? Now, I’m certain with enough...
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A Consultant’s Case for Wordsmith, Now and Later
The world of data has been exploding, and the process of capturing and analyzing data to drive business decisions is now the norm. This explosion has brought with it a rapid pace of innovation. Tableau...
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Advance with Assist: Automating Tableau Workbook Download with TabCmd
Question: I’m only seeing export options for PDF, CSV or PNG. I’m needing a way to export a workbook to a share drive for access by our Creators. Is there an automated way to do this? I’m tired of...
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Viz for Social Good: Girls+Data
According to research from Dear Tech People, based on data from 100 tech companies, while women make up 50% of the American population, they only make up about 37% of the tech sector*. Separately, a...
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Analytics Explained: Modeling Our World
Models are amazing. Built upon the understanding we gained in type 2 analytics, models provide an amazing tool that we can pass to others. No longer is the understanding locked up in our minds, but it...
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Automatically Publish Multi-Lingual Workbooks in Tableau Server
As more and more companies expand across the oceans, it becomes more of a necessity to embrace other languages and expand the consumer base of your data visualizations. This walkthrough will create an...
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Digital Nomad: A Glimpse into the InterWorks Culture
Since I’ve joined InterWorks, I have never suffered from boredom. If I should choose one word that describes my work the best, it would be excitement. Passion, natural curiosity and eagerness to create...
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