Video Tutorial: Creating a Combined Axis Chart in Tableau
In this quick video tutorial, I show you how to creat a combined axis chart in Tableau – a chart that allows you to put two separate measures on the same axis....
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Scaling Tableau Dashboards on High-Res Monitors
Scenario: You’ve just purchased a new laptop with an amazing high resolution display. Woo hoo! However, when you start up Tableau, something looks a bit fishy: Figure 1: Hmmmm … This seems to compound when you open a dashboard: Figure 2: YIKES!! When opening Dashboards, Tableau is scaling the...
Video Tutorial: Creating a Parameter in Tableau
In this brief video, I walk through the four steps to creating a parameter in Tableau: Create the parameter control Show the parameter control Use the parameter in a calculated field Use the calculated field in the view Follow along in the video to see how easy it is!...
Using Big Data to Tackle Big Goals: How Data Analytics Can Help Countries Confront Health Emergencies
I’ve just returned from Vietnam, and I’d like to share a story with you. This story involves hundreds of people from countries all over the world, working together for a common cause. First, let’s talk about a very common, little pest known as the aedes aegypti. Aedes...
InterWorks Blog Roundup – September 2016
Ahhh, September! School is in full swing for the youngsters and the weather is finally starting to cool down. That said, the InterWorks blog is just heating up. Check out all our content from last month below: News InterWorks Rakes in Metro 50 and Best Places to Work...
How to Make Centered Scatter Plots and Quadrant Charts in Tableau
Have you ever wanted your scatter plots or quadrant analysis charts to be centered instead of skewed to one side of the axis? Perhaps you’ve even found yourself wanting to keep the axis centered as you interact with quick filters or dashboard actions. Well, you’re...
PYD17 – Advanced Analytics with Alex Lentz and Michael Treadwell
Consultant Alex Lentz and Alteryx Ace Michael Treadwell join Ben to talk about what predictive analytics is and philosophies and techniques for taking your data to the next level with R and Alteryx. Subscribe to Podcast Your Data through iTunes, Stitcher, Pocket Casts or your favorite...
Questions from Tableau Training: How Can I Transform My Crosstab into a Flat List?
Here’s a question I got from Quoc about how to work with the structure of the data source he was receiving: “How can I transform my crosstab into a flat list?" He wanted to take a table that looks like this: And make it into a flat list...
The Tableau Wedding Planner
According to www.theknot.com, the average wedding in the United States costs approximately $30,000. With about two million weddings a year, this results in a multi-billion dollar industry. Every time someone says yes, plans must be made. Whether you are getting married at a courthouse, your...
Investment Planning in Tableau: Part 2 – Bollinger Bands
In the first post of this series, we reviewed how you can calculate compound annual growth rates in Tableau. This week, we’ll look at time series data using Bollinger Bands. A technical stock analyst named John Bollinger developed the technique and trademarked the name. Bollinger bands simply...
Alphabet Soup: Understanding Tableau 10 File Extensions
This article is updated with the new icons from Tableau 10 and expanded for additional file types. Previous article for Tableau 9 here. Acronyms, acronyms, acronyms – They dominate the internet, social media, everything. IMHO, probably too much. And, yes, Tableau is no different. It’s all...
Questions from Tableau Training: Can I Create Text Hyperlinks on a Dashboard?
Here's a question I often get in my Tableau training classes: "How do I create friendly text hyperlinks on a dashboard that open to an external webpage?” You may know how to bring a text object onto a Tableau dashboard, but what if you want your users...
Questions from Tableau Training: How Can I Use My Current Report to Create a Viz?
Often times during training, students approach me with a pretty understandable issue. "I already build this report. How can I use my current output to build a visualization in Tableau?" My initial response is: “Let’s see if we can access the original data. Using the transactional database will...
Off-Label Uses for Measure Names and Measure Values in Tableau
Sometimes, I feel like I’m cheating the system when I find a neat way to use something that Tableau has to offer. Other times, I feel like a genius for doing an end run around them. Is that bad? Well, either way, I’m here to...
InterWorks Blog Roundup – August 2016
Greetings, friends! As you may already know, the InterWorks blog is jam-packed full of IT and data goodness. Whether you come here for Tableau, Alteryx, data warehousing, Dell, VMware, you name it, we’ve got a little something for everyone. We’re not ALL business, of course;...
Investment Planning in Tableau: Part 1 – CAGR
Every decade, I spend a few weeks planning the next 10 years. This thinking normally encompasses career and investment goals. This time, I decided to expand my time horizon. I’m 57 years old, so I wanted to start thinking about what my personal financial situation looks...
Open Data Viz: San Francisco Restaurant Scores
The City of San Francisco's Health Department is always busy making sure our local restaurants are meeting food safety standards. Thanks to SF Open Data, scores and violations for every restaurant are available to anyone. Naturally, I wanted to take this data and give it life...
I Gantt Believe It’s Not a Reference Line!
One of my favorite viz types in the history of the whole wide world of Tableau is the bullet chart. I’m not sure I’ve ever produced a workbook that didn’t make use of this awesome “progress to goal” option because it’s simple, easy-to-understand and visually...
5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Tableau Consultant
Remember Jeff Foxworthy? He did the whole “you might be a redneck” shtick. As a business using Tableau or working with data on any level, there are times when you might need a Tableau consultant. If you’re looking to grow your analytics culture into a full...
2016 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
Jump to the viz! August in America brings record temperatures and signals an end of six painful months without American Football. Sports news websites begin to surge in traffic; even ESPN, despite their broad coverage of global sports, gains significant ground in its Alexa rankings once...