PYD04 – Michael Treadwell – InterWorks Analytics Consultant
Michael Treadwell, an InterWorks analytics consultant and former train engineer, talks about Alteryx, Python, R and life on the open railroad tracks....
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Creating Responsive Embedded Tableau Dashboards
Many of us embed visualizations in our websites, and they likely look great on our own monitors, but what about on your boss’s giant, 28-inch iMac monitor? How do they look on a projector? How do they look on an iPad? In today’s world of varying...
Exporting Tableau Dashboards to PowerPoint
As Tableau Developers, we hate to see our work flattened and shoved into a PowerPoint file. We love to see our work displayed in it's fullest, greatest ways - full of filters, parameters and tooltips for our users to play around with. Occasionally, though, we have a few...
10 Questions for Tableau Zen Master Chuck Hooper
Chuck Hooper is someone old enough to fully appreciate how far technology has come in the last 50 years. When Chuck got his first real job in technology, IBM had been building computers with hard disk drives for several years. But computers in those days...
InterWorks Named Tableau’s 2014 VAR Partner of the Year for North and South America
Last week, InterWorks' leadership returned from the 2015 Tableau Partner Summit in Las Vegas with an impressive piece of hardware: Tableau’s 2014 VAR Partner of the Year for North and South America award! That makes 2014 the second consecutive year in which we’ve been recognized for...
10 Questions for Tableau Trainer Extraordinaire Sarah Nell
I met Sarah last year while doing book tour speeches in the Midwest. She drove from Milwaukee to Madison to attend my talk there and the next day in Milwaukee. She was a Tableau Consultant at the time working for a Tableau Partner in Milwaukee...
I Hate When Tableau Does That: Calculated Fields Edition
Calculated fields are a staple of almost every workbook I create. There’s always a need to add a field to the original set of dimensions or measures to either enhance a visualization or to add powerful analysis on the fly without having to re-write the...
10 Questions for VizNinja Paul Banoub
I became aware of Paul Banoub a couple of years ago via Twitter and then his blog. Paul started doing interviews of Tableau community members a while ago. I didn’t realize that until I started digging into his website for this post. Paul is generous,...
Power Tools for Tableau Named Tableau Technology Partner
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. Power Tools for Tableau, an extension of InterWorks, officially achieved Tableau Technology Partner status last week. The Tableau Technology Partner list is comprised of organizations that create complementary products to Tableau Software. In short, these partners...
Tableau Essentials: Formatting Tips – Custom Shapes
Today, we’ll look at some formatting ideas that you can use on your next visualization. Specifically, we’ll look at using custom shapes to serve as our marks. Here is a simple table illustrating where players from the 2014 World Cup play their club football: Club Location field...
2015 CFP Championship: Calculating Recruiting Distances in Tableau
A couple weeks ago, I came across a College Football Playoff blog post that mapped the distance of each team’s campus to each player's hometown. While detailed and visually appealing, you could not interact with the map – making it impossible to do more detailed...
Data Art: A Portrait of Wind in the US
Of the hundreds of data visualizations I’ve seen, only a few stand out as exceptionally striking. The design, subject and uniqueness all come together perfectly. One of them is the animated Wind Map at Hint.fm. I can practically feel the air moving along the smooth, sweeping...
Frequently Asked Questions from Tableau Training: Vol. 1
Chances are, several people have the same questions about Tableau as you do. The Questions from Tableau Training series spotlights these questions and provides answers. Questions are pulled straight from InterWorks' Tableau training classes. You can check out the full list of posts on the...
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Bullet Graph
A bullet graph is a very powerful way to compare data against historical performance or pre-assigned thresholds. As you’ll see, we can include a lot of information in a small space with this type of chart that is also Tableau’s answer to those looking for...
Understanding Sequential and Diverging Color Palettes in Tableau
Tableau has two ways of coloring continuous measures: sequential and diverging gradients. The common understanding is that sequential palettes vary the intensity of one color while diverging palettes use two contrasting colors. This is generally true, but there’s much more to the story. Knowing how...
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Box-and-Whisker Plot
Compared to the other chart types, the box-and-whisker plot (also known as the box plot) is a bit more complicated. Before we can delve into an example of how it is used within Tableau Software, we have to explain the logic behind this type of...
What League of Legends Tweets Can Tell Us About Market Opportunities
Imagine this scenario: You’re an entrepreneur who has built a successful mobile gaming company offering a high-tech experience at parties and events. Now it’s time to expand. You’ve seen more than one episode of “Shark Tank” and have learned you must bring data to the...
Designing a Classic Timeline in Tableau
Typical day-to-day analysis is focused on things that have happened in recent days, months or years. We seldom go far enough into the past to make us think about what to do with dates prior to “date zero” (normally, January 1, 1900). That is unless...
Market Segmentation Using Tableau and R – An Example in Baseball
Does your organization use data to better inform its marketing? Have you heard the words “segmentation” or “micro-targeting” thrown around and don’t quite understand what it means? In the spirit of the World Series, I give you an example of customer segmentation using baseball. The goal...
