As National Tea Day in the UK is soon approaching (21st April), I thought it would be the perfect time to create a viz dedicated to tea! After browsing online, I found datasets related to the production, exportation and consumption of tea. The first dataset I...
Despite the famous traffic and occasional earthquake, over four million people choose to call Los Angeles home. With warm weather, vast cultural and ethnic diversity, and Hollywood, many people want to pursue their creative dreams here. I am one of those people. Growing up on...
As someone who loves history, Boston was a great place to grow up. With everything from colonial gems like the Old State House and Faneuil Hall to cultural landmarks like Fenway Park and the Boston Common, the city is full of historic sites. Unfortunately, there are...
Traveling requires planning. Where do you want to go? How will you get there? Where will you stay? What will you eat? These are the obvious questions we ask ourselves when planning work trips or beach holidays. But what if I told you there was...
"Technology is definitely intimidating to those who don't work with it on a day-to-day basis. Once you get to the Portal and it's all very intuitive, that fear or that intimidation goes away." Kat Nagar, Director of Compensation and Talent Analytics, and Karl Riddett, Director of...
Not only are Portals for Tableau useful to the people inside your company, they’re also great for sharing information with your partners, customers and any other stakeholder you may have outside of your company. One way that portals have become a go-to product for sharing with anyone,...
"How can I draw a 45-degree angle in Tableau, starting from the lower left-hand corner of my view and ending in the top-right corner?" This question came from Ece during a Desktop III class in Atlanta, as well as Christa and Erik from a Visual Analytics class in Boston....
March wrapped up in a blink of an eye and we have tons to share about our events that happened last month. Throughout the nation, we hosted events both small and large to audiences interested in IT and data. The InterWorks team’s representation did not disappoint! IT Transformation –...
The objective of this comparison exercise was to rebuild the Overview dashboard from the Tableau – Superstore sample dashboard in both Tableau (10.4) and Microsoft Power BI (2.52) with no prior knowledge of the Microsoft analytics package. I decided to conduct this comparison to better understand...
Everyone who knows me, knows I love pinball. To me, pinball is a wonderful mixture of art, physics, design and history that's intertwined into a gameplay that's both analog and digital. It's not just me, the U.S. has had a long love affair with pinball, starting with...
Can you believe that we're already a full quarter into 2018? March brought with it some fantastic content. In addition to our usual Tableau and data visualization fare, we have a handful of blog posts covering Snowflake and Dataiku – two fantastic new technology partners...
With aims to broaden their global customer base, Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) announced today a Dothraki language version. The excitement in the Grass Sea resounding among the Horde user groups was palpable as many lambs were put to slaughter and libations were made to the Stallion...
