PYD88 – Snowflake Summit, San Francisco
This week’s episode of Podcast Your Data throws it back to the inaugural Snowflake Summit that occurred last month. Snowflake pulled out all the stops when hosting its first-ever conference and created...
View ArticleWebinar Replay: Realize Your IT Vision with Blue Medora and VMware
Download the webinar and see how Blue Medora is your perfect complement to the vRealize Suite. The experts from Blue Medora will demonstrate how building a cohesive monitoring strategy using vRealize...
View ArticleInterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2019
Summertime and the blogging is easy. July proved to be a busy month on the blog for us, featuring 26 new content pieces and over 25 contributors! With three new podcasts dropping, several webinar...
View ArticleThe InterWorks Approach to Great Consulting: Part 2
At InterWorks, we pride ourselves on being unique and having a different take on work than other companies out there. A huge part of our impact comes from the relationships and trust that our...
View ArticleLearning from Brands You Love and Brands You Leave
I’ve been doing marketing at InterWorks for eight years. Truth be told, I’ve had Impostor Syndrome the entire time. I didn’t come from fancy schools. I don’t have a marketing degree. I am fortunate to...
View ArticlePortals for Tableau 101: Filter Blacklists and Averaging
The advanced filtering capabilities are some of the most popular features of the portal product. These are made possible by Tableau supplying a handy interface, called the Tableau JavaScript API, for...
View ArticleA Template for Date Calculations in Tableau
The most common calculations I make in Tableau are date-related. I’ve made hundreds of them with variations for year-over-year, month-over-month, rolling date ranges and a long list of customizations....
View ArticleOptimizing Portal Filters: Sticky Filters
One of the biggest selling points for Portals is the power of their filters. They’re web-friendly, fully customizable, dynamic and even sticky from dashboard to dashboard. We get a lot of questions...
View ArticleThe InterWorks Approach to Great Consulting: Part 3
If you’ve been following along, you know that this blog miniseries is all about dissecting the shared traits that some of my most impactful colleagues demonstrate in their consulting work. My two...
View ArticleTurning “Null” Dates into Blank Values in Tableau
Recently, dashboards I’ve made for a client feature several dates in grid-like views. Sometimes, the date values are null, and while these null values are expected, the client prefers to see blanks in...
View ArticlePYD89 – Designing for Data
Well-designed Tableau dashboards and your data—name a more powerful pair. When it comes to communicating your data insights, don’t settle for conventional methods that lack personality. In this podcast...
View ArticleBasket Analysis Using Parameter Actions and LOD Calculations
The initial request that led me to create this dashboard came from a client working in the sales department of a manufacturing company. The challenge was unique: if a customer requested a product that...
View ArticleOptimizing Portal Filters: Hidden Sticky Filters
Like I mentioned in my last post, this series takes a closer look at creating a fully optimized portal filter setup. This post is a bit of a digression from our end goal, but it’s a great opportunity...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Sign? Team Building with Personality Frameworks
I have ALWAYS loved personality tests. Before Buzzfeed quizzes like “What Season Suits Your Personality?” were common—even before the Myers Briggs or Enneagram trended—I would buy magazines solely to...
View ArticleInterWorks Is the Blueprint: Analytics Strategy
Tableau recently released a wonderful plan of their own called the Tableau Blueprint. We at InterWorks were very excited about this Tableau Blueprint because it echoes much of how we work with clients...
View Article2019 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
I’ve been making and using these Fantasy Football Draft Kits in Tableau for SIX years now, and the demand for this year’s kit has been incredible to see. I love hearing from friends and family, and all...
View ArticleBest in Show: Finding the Top Dogs for Your BI Stack
Business Information (BI) technology is a collection of hardware, protocols, toolsets and methods that is ever-changing. A common refrain has been “Buy IBM, or Microsoft, or Oracle, or SAP” because...
View ArticleThat’s a Wrap: SEAT Conference 2019
This past July, InterWorks had the privilege of attending the SEAT Conference in Daytona Beach, Florida. The conference is geared for the sports and entertainment industries and was held at Daytona...
View ArticleOptimizing Portal Filters: Dynamic Filter Values
Now that we have Sticky Filters set up, this post will continue our journey toward creating a fully optimized portal filter setup by enabling dynamic filter values: Setting up Dynamic Filter Values...
View ArticleAdvance with Assist: Nested IF Calculations in Tableau
Question: I’m needing to add multiple layers of logic in Tableau, but I don’t want multiple lines of AND options written out. How can I use multiple IF statements? Logical calculations take on many...
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