InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2018
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. Great balls of blogging fire! July was a busy month on the InterWorks blog ...
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Tableau Tip: Default to Current Week and Allow Week Selection
The idea behind this blog post is to document a novel approach I have come up with to allow for date selection in a report that defaults to the most recent time frame. There are multiple ways this sort of problem can be solved. My...
Advance with Assist: Blending with Dimension Not Utilized
Question: "I’ve established the data relationship, but the number still won’t show and I still get this error. What am I doing wrong?" Blending is one of those features that we see many issues with. Some users don’t realize they’ve started a blend while others may have...
InterWorks Quarterly Event Debrief: Q2 2018
The InterWorks Events Team has been quiet over the last few months, but that’s not due to inactivity! Rather than continuing our Monthly Event Recaps, we decided to give you a wrap up of our events for each quarter. So, without further ado, let’s dive...
Transforming Data in Tableau Prep
Picture this: You are trying to build a sales dashboard in Tableau Desktop to show your boss how great you are. But hey, there is one issue: The data you have is currently in a structure not suitable for Tableau Desktop. You need to crosstab...
Flipping the Script: How Starting Small and Specific Changed My Human Trafficking Data Viz
Normally when I build a dashboard, I approach it like a funnel: I start with the big picture first and then narrow into more specific details. This allows viewers to establish context and get the most important insights right from the start and then choose...
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: On-Premises Analytics Tracking
Everyone is familiar with Google Analytics for tracking web usage. However, some organizations have policies that don’t allow for that data to be collected by a third party or don’t like Google Analytics for some other reason. For instance, maybe Google Analytics forgot to send you...
Three Years at Michigan: Harbaugh’s Tenure
I grew up watching college football and always remembered that iconic maize and blue. Now as an adult, Michigan football is somewhat of a family tradition. I watch their games every Saturday during the year with my friends and family, occasionally making the trip up...
Using Alteryx to Create the (Almost) Ideal Dataset for an Ottawa Data Viz
Ottawa: Capital city to our neighbor to the north, Canada. Home to astronauts, comedians, musicians and more. The University of Ottawa educated the greatest game show host of all time, Alex Trebek, who studied philosophy (presumably because he couldn’t major in trivia). But most exciting of...
A Solution to Tableau Line Charts with Missing Data Points
A question that seems to come up every so often as a consultant is around how Tableau doesn’t show data where there is no data. Sounds kinda obvious, doesn’t it? But let’s frame this slightly differently and we can see that whilst this does make...
How to Get the Most from Your Tableau Conference Experience
Two weeks ago, I attended my first Tableau Conference in London. I really enjoyed three fantastic days and decided to write a short blog about it, sharing some tips on how to be well prepared. But first, here's a fun recap video I put together about...
Makeover Monday: The NBA’s Soft Salary Cap
The #makeovermonday project, led by Andy Kriebel and Eva Murray, puts out a public data set each week, challenging data vizzers to find a different way to present the data. It’s a great way to practice your visualization skills and force yourself to work with...
Alternative Fuel Stations Across the US
Was anyone else fascinated with the American sitcom “The Jetsons” growing up? I know I was. The imaginative, futuristic world was so captivating to me, making me wonder if we would ever have holograms or talking robots. I was most intrigued by the flying cars,...
Creating a Dual-Axis Map in Tableau Using Polygons
Note: As of version 2020.4, creating a map with multiple layers is much simpler than the dual-axis method described in this post. Check out the multiple map layer functionality here. If you are just looking for the TL;DR quick solution to mapping two spatial files of...
Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: Tulsa Collision Hotspots
You’re a young adult in Tulsa in 2007 and you’ve got a date at a hip, new froyo place. You think to yourself (because you won’t listen to Mom), “Oh, that construction on 71st is so lame. I’m going to avoid it by speeding down...
5 Steps to Enabling a Multi-Select Parameter Control in Tableau
The multi-select parameter control is a feature many that Tableau enthusiasts would love to take advantage of. While the multi-select parameter option isn’t available natively within Tableau, we’ve enabled the multi-select parameter feature within Portals for Tableau! Big props to Matthew Orr and the Portals...
Advance with Assist: Tableau Power User Leaving the Company
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. Here's the InterWorks Assist question for this week's post: "I have a situation where one of our power users left the company, and I’m having trouble finding the data connections related to them as they aren’t...
Tables in Tableau: Jazzing It Up with a Purpose, Part 3
We have now reached the final part of our Tableau Tables Trilogy. For this part, we will be covering what I call the table/chart combo. Why do this? The reason is quite simple. More often than not, people consume data in a table format, spending...
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Dynamic Filter Updates
Ever wish your Portals for Tableau filters could be dynamic? Or even your portal parameters? You’re in luck! You may have seen Data Driven Filters (also works for parameters) on your portal - it even made our recap of last year’s best features. Now we’re...
Recapping InterWorks’ London Team Day
When InterWorkers meet, we not only talk about Tableau and how to help people better understand their data, we also like to be challenged and challenge each other! This time, right after Tableau Conference Europe 2018, we were invited to join London Team Day. For those...
