Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Switching Vizzes
You are probably already aware of sheet swapping within a dashboard in Tableau, whereby a parameter is provided for the user to select the visualisation they want to see ...
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Virtual Event Recap: Five Essential Tips for Table Calculations
As the world remains in quasi-quarantine, we’ve been staying connected and learning in our home offices thanks to InterWorks’ virtual Lunch & Learn series hosted by our APAC team. This month’s event covered five essential tips on table calculations. Table calculations are a special feature inside...
Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Conditional Formatting
In this new blog series, we’ll be looking at a few advanced techniques for tooltips. To get to grips with the basics, why we use tooltips and how they can add to your views, refer to this blog from my colleague Brooks Barth. You can...
Navigating Bias in the Data Visualization Process
Politics are … tricky. I firmly believe that data has its place in every part of the world. However, I also know that data can be biased, especially in its presentation. So, when designing for data, how does one navigate these biases? I’m not sure...
Advance with Assist: Tableau Server – Interactive MicroService Container Degraded
Question: After restarting our Tableau Services due to the gateway going down, the system came back up. However, we now see that the Interactive Microservice Container is degraded. Restarts aren’t fixing the issue. Anything else we can try? In this post, we’ll talk through the troubleshooting...
InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2020
Order up! We have another month's worth of hot and fresh data resources ready for you. In this blog roundup, we feature a new Snowflake blog series, a summertime playlist, more webinar recordings than ever and our tried-and-true Tableau tips. With 23 published posts and...
Tableau for Good: A Social Distancing Floor Plan for Restaurants
The Drawing Tool has been incorporated into CBI Studio by InterWorks. Explore CBI Studio to see what’s new. As a result of the widespread measures taken by various governments around the world to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a lot of business industries have been adversely...
Advance with Assist: Missing Joins in Tableau 2020.2
Question: We just upgraded to 2020.2 and when I view the data source screen, I no longer see my joins that were in my data source before. Where’d they go? Do I have to rebuild? With the release of 2020.2, Tableau has unveiled many new features,...
Using Python with Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep has improved considerably since it was launched. It offers a lot of tools to pre-process and transform your data. But sometimes, you need to apply a function that has no equivalent in Prep, want to extract some data using an API interface or...
Webinar Replay: Powerful Integrations: Tableau, Snowflake, Alteryx and Matillion
What technologies can you pair to enhance the data experience? How can the right blend of tech help you do your job faster and more easily? In this webinar, we hear from Global Database Administrator & BI Analyst at TenCate, Scott Perry, alongside InterWorks’ Dan Murray as...
Create a Stacked Impact Super Chart in Tableau
Every now and then, you want to customise your viz in Tableau just a little bit outside of the standard functionalities, without spending more time on customising the viz than building it initially. I recently came across a chart I had never seen before, but...
What’s in a Name vs. When Is a Name? A Data Viz
Depending on your age (and many other factors), when you read the phrase “What’s in a name?” you may think of one of two things: A soliloquy from Shakespeare where Juliet bemoans, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any...
Take Control of Your Chart Labels in Tableau
Oftentimes, we want to show the labels on charts, but there may be cases where we need more flexibility than the default options Tableau provides. For example, we may only want to label the most recent data points or select points of particular interest. In...
Our Favorite InterWorks KPI Designs from 2019-2020
Even though we’re nowhere near the end of 2020, my colleague, Skylark Macadamia, recently began thinking back on what some of her favorite InterWorks KPI designs have been over the past year. The UX and Design team at InterWorks has worked on numerous Tableau projects...
Portals for Tableau Feature Expansion: Content Tracking
While we definitely recommend using a web analytics tracker, such as Google Analytics or Matomo, to track usage of your portal, the portal itself does record each time a user visits a piece of content. It uses this information to generate things like recommended content,...
InterWorks Supports the Launch of New DataWomen Community
We’re pleased to announce that InterWorks is supporting the launch of a new data community! DataWomen is a network that will host regular webinars, run a mentoring program, host a LinkedIn group and share awesome content and links for other groups. Learn more at the...
Webinar Replay: Tableau 2020.2 Feature Demo: New Data Model
The latest version of Tableau, 2020.2, introduces a game-changing new data model. This feature provides you much more flexibility and changes the way you can work with the data sources. We will explore the differences in user experience when compared to previous versions. Furthermore, we will...
Recapping the Data Science Go Virtual Conference 2020
This year, I was asked to present a workshop at the Data Science Go Virtual Conference. The DSGO attendees included 2500+ new data scientists, and my presentation was geared toward the 200+ who were interested in learning to use Tableau for data visualization. I was...
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Content Favoriting
[cue music] Tiles on pages and bar charts on dashboards, Publishing files and tagging with keywords, Centralization through external links, These are a few of my favorite things… Keep Track of Your Favorite Things In the beginning, Portals for Tableau focused on, well, Tableau content. When it came to favoriting things...
Webinar Replay: Tableau Prep: Daten-Organisation mit Self-Service
Sie glauben, Datenvorbereitung sei nur etwas für erfahrene Data Engineers? Wir sind da anderer Meinung! Lernen Sie Tableau Prep kennen: eine self-service Datenvorbereitung, die Sie für eine anwenderfreundliche und vertraute Benutzeroberfläche einsetzen können. So können Sie Daten aus mehreren Quellen nahtlos bereinigen, kombinieren und umformen,...
