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How To Use Tableau Repository to Monitor Your Tableau Server
Looking to optimize your Tableau Server? If you are reading this, you are most probably on the right path. But how do you know where to start? Just like our health, before any treatment can be prescribed, a diagnosis is required. When it comes to...
A Tableau Style Guide Made in Tableau
One of the reasons I gravitated towards a career in data visualization was just that — the visualizations. My background is in the visual arts and to see data, facts and numbers, concepts and correlations, all brilliantly designed and represented in colorful graphs activated both...
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for Tableau
As data grows more and more entrenched into everyday business decisions, the importance of questioning our data and how we interpret it becomes vital. At InterWorks, we work with all different types of data, organizations and decisions. We know the impact that data can have,...
Title Case Formatting in Tableau with the PROPER() Function
Exciting news for Tableau users! With version 2022.4, Tableau has introduced the highly anticipated PROPER() function. This function makes it easy to transform string data into title case format, where the first letter of each word is capitalized, and all other letters are in lowercase. It...
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Support (In-Place Upgrade from 18.04 guide)
Tableau have now launched support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS just in time for 18.04 coming to the end of hardware and update support on April 30, 2023. Extended Security Maintenance will last into 2026, however the desire to move to a supported operating system will...
Image Roles: Tableau Desktop 2022.4 New Feature
Launched in Desktop 2022.4, "Image Roles" allow you to add an additional semantic field to give end users another way to view their data. This allows you to include images at speed and scale by utilising a URL link within your data to feed straight...
InterWorks Blog Roundup — March 2023
Clocking in at 28 blog entries this month, March was easily one of the most jam-packed months we've had on the InterWorks blog. I feel like I've written that exact same intro several times since I took over compiling these monthly roundups, but the number...
Tableau 2023.1: Improved Tableau Server and Cloud Security with Tableau Mobile
In today’s digital age, mobile devices have become an integral part in everybody’s day to day life. This has allowed users the ability to easily explore and retrieve data visualisations and information via Tableau Mobile. Several major versions ago, Tableau introduced App Lock, with Biometric or...
Tenure Calculations in Tableau
For those businesses that have a portfolio of clients, or a variety of members or students, a frequently asked question is, "For how long have I worked with my clients? For how long have these people associated with my business or service?" In order words,...
Tableau Accelerator Data Mapper – Tableau 2023.1 – New Feature
What are Tableau Accelerators? In essence, Tableau Accelerators are pre-built Tableau dashboards which organisations can use as templates to quickly visualise their data without the need for extensive development time. These dashboards are excellent starting points for new projects or can be used to achieve a...
Filtering in Tableau While Keeping a Specific Category
Check out the workaround described here on Tableau Public: Tableau Filtering - Keep Null Out of List | Tableau Public TL;DR – With this workaround in Tableau, you can always include a category in a viz while not including it as on option in a filter,...
Dynamic Axis Titles – Tableau 2023.1 – New Feature
Tableau has launched a new feature in their latest release of 2023.1, allowing developers and end-users to benefit from axis titles to change based on parameters or calculated fields. As usual nowadays, it works in Tableau Desktop and in Tableau Web-edit. In this blog, we...
User-Centered Dashboard Development: Refine
In our previous post we previewed this phase, "Refine," since it goes hand in hand with the "Develop" phase. They dance a tango, one leading the other as they move together towards creating a dashboard ready for production. The goal of the "Refine" phase is...
InterWorks Blog Roundup — February 2023
February may be the shortest month of the year, but it's definitely been one of the busiest here at InterWorks! There's 28 days in the shortest month, but we've got a whopping 25 blog posts here for your review. You'll notice that there's a new...
A New Look at Spotify Data Using Dataiku, Tableau and Python
I’ve always loved Spotify’s year-in-review analysis. But, as a data nerd, I yearn for the underlying data – the stories I know are there but don’t have access to. While I know Spotify makes a lot of this data accessible through it’s API, I have...
Customizing Your Tableau Governance: A (Well) Documented Solution
You’ve arrived at the final blog in our series of three on unique governance solutions in Tableau. So far, we’ve seen two ways that the core Governance Principles can be molded to support different priorities when it comes to governing your Tableau site. It’s safe...
Tableau Bridge: Security
Welcome to the final post in our Tableau Bridge series! We started with a simple question of What is Tableau Bridge? We got a bit technical with installation, data source requirements and Pooling, and then created our first schedules. In this last blog, we’ll review how...
Tableau Bridge: Scheduling and Confirming Successful Refresh
So far in our Tableau Bridge blog series, we’ve identified What is Tableau Bridge and whether you need it for your deployment of Tableau Cloud. We then dove into Setting Up Tableau Bridge and the considerations needed to ensure success in refreshing your private network data, including...
Tableau Bridge: What Is Pooling?
You may have heard about the concept of Pooling when it comes to Tableau Bridge, but if you haven’t, you’re probably wondering, "What is this? Does it mean we’re going swimming?" We wish, but no! The purpose of Pooling is to distribute or load balance...