Business Information (BI) technology is a collection of hardware, protocols, toolsets and methods that is ever-changing. A common refrain has been “Buy IBM, or Microsoft, or Oracle, or SAP” because these vendors are perceived as safe investments—ways you couldn’t go wrong. The market has evolved...
I've been making and using these Fantasy Football Draft Kits in Tableau for SIX years now, and the demand for this year's kit has been incredible to see. I love hearing from friends and family, and all you random folks out around the internet, about...
Tableau recently released a wonderful plan of their own called the Tableau Blueprint. We at InterWorks were very excited about this Tableau Blueprint because it echoes much of how we work with clients on their data journey. You can read more about the overall Tableau...
I have ALWAYS loved personality tests. Before Buzzfeed quizzes like “What Season Suits Your Personality?” were common—even before the Myers Briggs or Enneagram trended—I would buy magazines solely to take the tests to find out more about myself and then make my family or friends...
Like I mentioned in my last post, this series takes a closer look at creating a fully optimized portal filter setup. This post is a bit of a digression from our end goal, but it’s a great opportunity to discuss a relevant topic we get...
The initial request that led me to create this dashboard came from a client working in the sales department of a manufacturing company. The challenge was unique: if a customer requested a product that was out of stock, they could quickly find alternative products with...
Recently, dashboards I’ve made for a client feature several dates in grid-like views. Sometimes, the date values are null, and while these null values are expected, the client prefers to see blanks in lieu of “Null” on their visualizations. After some troubleshooting, I figured out...
One of the biggest selling points for Portals is the power of their filters. They’re web-friendly, fully customizable, dynamic and even sticky from dashboard to dashboard. We get a lot of questions from users who want to pull the filter options from the dashboard dynamically,...
The most common calculations I make in Tableau are date-related. I've made hundreds of them with variations for year-over-year, month-over-month, rolling date ranges and a long list of customizations. Some of our most popular blog posts at InterWorks are those teaching people how to handle...
The advanced filtering capabilities are some of the most popular features of the portal product. These are made possible by Tableau supplying a handy interface, called the Tableau JavaScript API, for the portal to use to interact with the dashboard. The vast majority of dashboards...
Summertime and the blogging is easy. July proved to be a busy month on the blog for us, featuring 26 new content pieces and over 25 contributors! With three new podcasts dropping, several webinar replays available and even more of the usual tech and culture...
One of my first publicly available dashboards is embarrassingly rough. Just two charts (one’s a pie; thank goodness it only has three slices), gaping whitespace, completely emotionless. Like a decent dashboard, it begs more questions, but some of them could actually be answered in that...
Hear from Snowflake, InterWorks and Tableau in this webinar led by InterWorks’ Principal and Data Practice Lead, Brian Bickell. Webinar Takeaways How modern cloud analytics technologies are changing the data landscape How to easily load, integrate and query structured and semi-structured data What it’s like to...
Several of our clients utilize their portal to show dashboards to numerous clients of theirs in a multi-tenant architecture. Unlike traditional apartment buildings, these tenants shouldn’t really know the others exist. They shouldn’t hear anyone stomping around like an elephant on their ceiling in the...
In my last post, I showed you how to replace a traditional drop-down menu with icons to swap sheets using parameter actions. In this post, we’ll take this a step further and refine how the icons look when they’re selected, removing the black border and...
The world of tech is always changing and evolving, and to be successful in the industry, professionals must continue to learn, grow and develop their skills and approaches to the challenges they face. With so many different design elements and data variables in the work...
Data drives everything, and it's invaluable when it comes to making effective and informed decisions in your work. The way that data is communicated is crucial, and the functionality and design of a dashboard can either reinforce the data story you're telling or undermine and...
During a recent Google search for elegant dashboards, I discovered a great example from Sharon Faber. I really like how Sharon incorporated icons that users can select to change the chart type. This gives users options without wasting space. Rather than burying alternative displays further down...
While InterWorks started in the heart of the United States of America, we’ve long since become an international company. Until now, the portal has been very US-centric. With English being the de facto language of business around the world, maybe it’s not overly apparent. However,...
Here’s a question: When it comes to life, are you the spontaneous type, or are you more of a planner? Hold onto that answer. Now, let me ask you the same question in respect to your work: Do you prefer working on the fly, or...
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