Monthly blog roundups recap all the content on the blog for each month. These posts provide an easy way to skim through content that interests you.

Time really does fly when you’re having fun publishing amazing content! 2017 was a huge year for our blog, and it wouldn’t have been possible without our fellow InterWorkers sharing their work with us. We published over 220 blog posts with content ranging from new data vizzes, how-to posts, podcasts, awards and everything in between. To say thank you for continuing to read our blog, please enjoy our annual roundup. We can’t wait to see what exciting prospects the next 12 months bring to the InterWorks blog.

Top Tableau Vizzes

• Outrage and Apathy: Presidential Election Voter Participation Visualized in Tableau
• Chicago Cubs 2016 Season in Review
• 12 Generations Mapped in Tableau
• Tableau + Spotify = Musical Data Heaven
• Visualizing Math in Tableau: Multiplication Circles
• 140.6 Miles: How Two People Trained for Six Months to Complete the Boulder Ironman
• Open Data Viz: Japan’s High-Speed Train Visualized
• 2017 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
• Tableau Viz: How Much Heat Can You Handle?
• Building a Washington, D.C. Museum Crawl with Tableau

Most Liked on Twitter

Over the past year, our tweets have collectively gained over one million impressions! And we would not have been able to make that happen without our followers and bloggers who write for us. To celebrate, here are a few posts that were the most popular on Twitter this year:

• Open Data Viz: Trees in NYC’s Concrete Jungle
• PYD40 – Hadley Wickham
• Tableau Deep Dive: Dashboard Design – Optimization & Governance
• Three Competitors, One Iron Viz
• InterWorks Mentors the Next Generation of Analysts at Alteryx for Good

Series Still Going Strong

Our blog series are renowned for offering great tips and tricks to the data community. Robert Curtis launched a fantastic new design deep dive series last year and Questions from Tableau Training continues to be a great resource for Tableau users. Here are a few blog series of 2017, plus a few you can expect to continue into 2018:

• Tableau Deep Dive: Dates
• Tableau Deep Dive: Dashboard Design
• Questions from Tableau Training
• Power Tools for Tableau Spotlight Series
• My Machine Learning Journey
• Tableau Extended
• A Data Science Treatise
• Monthly Blog Roundups
• Monthly Event Debrief
• Podcast Your Data!

Award Roundup

We were honored to be named one of the Best Places to Work in Oklahoma and the country this year. Here are some other awards we were excited to announce:

• InterWorks Named 2016 Tableau EMEA Services and Training Partner of the Year
• InterWorks Maintains Silver Level Bicycle Friendly Business Status
• InterWorks Makes the 2017 CRN Tech Elite 250
• InterWorks Voted ‘Best IT Company in Oklahoma’ for Seventh Consecutive Year
• And the Veeam Gold Partner Medal Goes to…
• InterWorks Named Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces of 2017
• Third Year Straight InterWorks Places on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 List
• InterWorks Named to ‘Best Places to Work in Oklahoma’ List Again!

Culturally Relevant

Having the best people is integral to the InterWorks culture. Here are our favorite moments where we got to experience that culture firsthand on our blog:

• InterWorks Tulsa Breaks in New Cherry Street Office Space
• Reuniting and It Tastes So Good: Thoughts on InterWorks’ 2017 BBQ
• Magellan & Me: Circumnavigating the World for Data, Democracy and BBQ
• Why Would a Technology Consulting Company Ride 450 Miles in the Oklahoma Heat?
• How I Went from Aspiring Broadway Star to Oxford Grad Student to Content Strategist
• The Expected and Unexpected of Being Support Queen for OK Freewheel
• Flying with InterWorks Europe
• An Inside Look into a Road Warrior’s Carry-On
• Video Recap: TCOT Berlin and Watzmann Team Meetup
• A Glimpse into InterWorks’ Onboarding Experience

Honorable Mentions

Because we don’t pick favorites when it comes to our blog, it wouldn’t be right to close out this year without mentioning a few more of our favorite posts from 2017:

• Get to Know EXASOL, the Perfect Database Companion to Tableau
• InterWorks Mentors the Next Generation of Analysts at Alteryx for Good
• InterWorks Gives Back: SkillsUSA and the Road to Nationals
• Unexpected Surprises: IMDB Movie Analytics  
• Open Data Viz: NYC Restaurant Grades
• Tips for Designing Mobile Dashboards in Tableau
• Compare Your Care: Which Hospitals Get Top Ratings?
• How InterWorks and the Tableau Foundation Are Impacting Education Through Data
• A Detailed Review of My iPhone 7 Setup
• A Lite UI Checklist for Dashboard Design
• Visualising German Football with Tableau and Google Sheets
• Tableau Server on Linux: Performance Sneak Peek
• How I Learned to Code and Write Python Script
• The Biggest TC17 Takeaways
• Our Favorite Tweets from #Data17
• Evolving from Excel: Tableau for Finance Teams
• Introducing Viz Templates
• How Tableau is Changing Self-Service Data Governance

Looking Forward

It’s been a huge year for our blog and we couldn’t curate and publish all this wonderful content without our amazing consultants. We already have some great pieces lined up for the start of the year we can’t wait to share with everyone in the data community. Get in touch with us if there is a specific topic you’d like us to cover on our blog. And a big thank you to all our bloggers who truly made the InterWorks blog momentous in 2017!