PYD82 – Ask Data
What’s better—asking someone else about your data or asking the data itself? Why not both? In this episode of Podcast Your Data, InterWorks analytics consultant Katie Bridges welcomes Ruhaab Markas...
View ArticleHuman-Centered Design
As designers and analysts, we often overlook qualitative data in favor of easily measured metrics. We focus on things things like money spent, products sold, click-through rates and logins because...
View ArticleUnderstanding Tableau Prep and Conductor: Connecting to a Data Source with...
Before you begin building a workflow using Tableau Prep, it’s helpful to know a little bit about the data source(s) you need to connect to. Consider the following: What kind of source are you...
View ArticlePortals for Tableau 101: Containerizing Your Portal
While it isn’t our recommended approach, Portals for Tableau can be hosted in a container environment, such as Docker. There be dragons with this process, so consider this your dragon-slaying guide....
View ArticleUnderstanding Tableau Prep and Conductor: Clean and Join Steps
The last post in this series showed you how to use the Wildcard union and the Manual union to join four years of sales data that was stored in four different worksheets. In this post, you’ll see how...
View ArticleFall of the Queensland Koala Data Viz
A diverse abundance of wildlife is as quintessentially Australian as Crocodile Dundee’s giant knife or Men at Work telling you to run for cover. During my recent move Down Under from New York, my...
View ArticleA Recap of Data Council Conference 2019
Have you ever noticed that when you complete a trip with Uber, your account is updated immediately? I often interact with apps on my phone only to be left confused by how they can stream my data...
View ArticleUnderstanding Tableau Prep and Conductor: Facilitating a Join with Aggregation
In the previous three posts in this series, we used Tableau Prep Builder to create a workflow to join six tables from two data sources. Our flow contains 11 steps. The challenge presented with the data...
View ArticleAdvance with Assist: REST Error in Tableau and Snowflake Connection
Question: I’m getting an error when I try to log into Snowflake. It says REST error and no such file or directory. How can I get connected to our new database? Looking at the images above, you may...
View ArticlePortals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Portal Backups
© InterWorks 2019 – All Rights Reserved, Modified ”Tornado Icon” (https://game-icons.net/1×1/lorc/tornado.html) by Lorc is licensed under CC BY 3.0 The new season of Major League Tornadoes is getting...
View ArticleUnderstanding Tableau Prep and Conductor: Building a Viz with Flow Data
In the last four blog posts in this series, we created an 18-step workflow that provides a hyper extract file. I’m going to test my set by building a view in Tableau Desktop. While I could just publish...
View ArticlePYD83 – Tableau 2019.2 Maps
Today we journey on with our series on Tableau’s 2019.2 features. Today we are pinpointing the importance of maps in the world of data. Please join InterWorks Principal and Analytics Practice Lead ,...
View ArticleInterWorks Listed on CRN Tech Elite 250 for the Fourth Consecutive Year
CRN released their 2019 Tech Elite 250 list and InterWorks claimed a spot for the fourth year in a row. The list recognizes the top 250 IT solution providers in U.S., based on the number and depth of...
View ArticleInterWorks Hyped for Alteryx Inspire 2019
We’re just a few weeks away from Alteryx Inspire 2019, and we’re thrilled to offer our support again this year as a Gold Sponsor. From June 10-14, thousands will flock to Nashville, Tennessee, to...
View ArticleWebinar Replay: Top 5 Assist Questions Answered Live
After working with Tableau for a while, it’s likely that you’ve run into a lot of the same obstacles as you go through your data work over and over. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get the answers to...
View ArticleInterWorks Thrilled for First-Ever Snowflake Summit
We’re on the cusp of a historic moment in the data world: the first Snowflake Summit ever! On June 3-6, the best and brightest in data will gather together in San Francisco at this sold-out conference...
View ArticleAdvance with Assist: Mapping with One Data Row in Tableau 2019.2
One of the top questions we see in Assist involves mapping paths from an origin to a destination. Maybe this is shipping information from a warehouse to the delivery address or flights from takeoff to...
View ArticleInterWorks Blog Roundup – May 2019
Last month on the blog, we saw more of our data and tech insights in full bloom. From a deep dive series examining Tableau Prep to looking ahead at some exciting conferences from our partners, the blog...
View ArticleBound for Berlin: InterWorks Awaits Tableau Conference Europe 2019
It’s nearly that time of year again! I am really looking forward to Tableau Conference Europe 2019 this month! Soon, I’ll be flying from London to Berlin, where I’ll get to see my European colleagues....
View ArticlePYD84 – Jonathan Drummey on Visualize No Malaria
Let’s do good with the things we’re good at. On PYD84, InterWorks London Practice Lead, David Pires, talks with Tableau Zen Master and Hall of Famer Jonathan Drummey about his history with Tableau and...
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