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2020 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
While 2020 has hardly been the year anyone could have predicted, sports, uh … finds a way. The NFL is the first major sports league to have a full, normal-ish, season planned and while the pre-season...
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Tableau 2020.3: Best New Features for Dashboarding
Tableau 2020.3 has recently been released with several exciting new features that have been recapped by my colleague Robin Schouten. Two other features I wanted to focus on will be useful to anyone who...
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Virtual Event Recap: The Good and Bad of Dashboard Templates
As COVID continues, so does InterWorks’ virtual Lunch & Learn series. This month’s event covered dashboard templates. Dashboard templates (pre-built dashboards with reserved space for worksheets...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – August 2020
The year may be half over, but we’re just getting started with some great data resources for you! We’ve recently launched several new blog series, taking closer looks at Snowflake and its modern data...
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A Summer to Remember: Interning During a Pandemic
The year 2020 is what you might call … unique, to say the least. For John, Henry and myself—the InterWorks interns—many areas of our lives quickly changed in order to adapt to the current world we live...
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Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: User Control for On-Off Switching
In previous posts, we’ve looked at creating conditional fields for tooltips and using parameters to add user control to tooltips. Here, we’ll combine these to have a tooltip that users can turn on and...
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PYD106 – Snowflake with Kent Graziano
You don’t want to miss out on episode 106 of Podcast Your Data! Join InterWorks Data Engineer Holt Calder and Snowflake Chief Technical Evangelist & Strategic Advisor Kent Graziano for a discussion...
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InterWorks Summer Tour 2020: Taking a Global Summit Virtual
This year has been one of unexpected twists, and even the best-laid plans have been waylaid by 2020, including ours. At InterWorks, one of the highlights of the year is our annual company-wide Summit...
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DataWomen Event Recap: Thriving in Data
This month, InterWorks supported the kickoff of the very first event for DataWomen! DataWomen is a data network that hosts regular webinars, runs a mentoring program, hosts a LinkedIn group and shares...
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Simplified Parameter Actions in Tableau
If you’ve been using Tableau for a while, you have probably used parameters and case statements to swap metrics or dimensions. (If this technique is unfamiliar to you, you can read about the basics...
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So You Want to Make a Starter Pack: InterWorks Edition
The process of designing the department starter packs has been such a treat. Andrea Avey, InterWorks Content Coordinator, originally came up with the idea when we were discussing ways to increase...
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Rooms with a View: Window Switch
2020 has been a slog. So many unexpected and troubling things have befallen our world, and those repercussions are far-reaching. One of the consequences has been lots of time inside of our homes, and...
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Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Adding Images
Bringing an image into a tooltip can be a great way to show additional information in a visually interesting way without overcrowding a dashboard. It could be used to bring in a picture of a product,...
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Mapping Wildfires in Tableau with Online Web Map Sources
It is late summer 2020, and I, like many others on the West Coast, am currently surrounded by wildfires and glued to various online web maps showing the various states of the world burning down around...
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Tableau’s New Data Model: Physical vs. Logical Data Sources
With the recent release of Tableau Desktop 2020.2 came the introduction of a brand-new data model. In versions prior to 2020.2, users would define joins and unions between physical tables in which...
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Increasing Tableau Server User Adoption: Overview
Wouldn’t it be nice if having a great product was enough to get everyone to use it? And maybe even good enough to have everyone use it in a cohesive, organised manner? So nice. But, alas … you’re here...
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Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Background Formatting
A common irritation with tooltip formatting in Tableau is that there is no way of changing the background colour of the tooltip. So, if you have changed the background colour of your sheet to something...
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The Analytics Revolution: Old Stack, New Stack and Best-of-Breed Solutions
Over the last 40 years, we’ve seen a revolution in data analytics, starting with the invention of SQL and the Relational Database by IBM in the late 1970s, the advent of the personal computer (also...
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Embedding Tableau in Salesforce with the Lightning Web Component
Since Salesforce purchased Tableau in August last year, the Tableau community has been waiting with bated breath for news about how the two market-leading platforms can exist and advance together....
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InterWorks Summer Tour 2020: The Great Paper Caper
Last month, we wrapped up our first virtual summit. Think a virtual summit sounds boring? Nothing at InterWorks is ever boring. You can read more about how our incredible team pulled off a virtual...
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