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SOPA Congressional Picture
House Resolution 3261, more commonly known as SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, is garnering a great deal of attention lately, especially as major websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit are blacking out their services in protest of the controversial legislation. For proponents of SOPA,...
Data Connections – Making life easy for your fellow colleagues
In my experience most technical IT types love to name databases and data fields in weird and wonderful ways. A good example is this gem I encountered recently "ATV", take a guess at what that means. If you create a data field called "ATV" and...
Instruction for Tableau Dashboard Hidden in Tooltip
Are you creating a Tableau dashboard and need to leave instructions for users on how to use the dashboard, but you don't want to take up valuable space for these instructions? If so, this post is definitely for you. Using a Created Field, we will...
Three Little Phrases
There are a few phrases I find cropping up regularly in the office that I think are useful and I'd like to share with you: "Great answers breed even better questions" This is the power of iterative analytics; the results of the analytical process provokes more refined, more...
Non-Traditional Data Sources in Tableau
Tableau gives us a lot of ways to connect to data. We can easily connect to Excel, Access, SQL Server, Oracle … the list goes on and on. One place that’s not in that list is email. We get a lot of data that’s been...
Quick Connect to Excel Spreadsheet from Tableau
There are a couple ways we can connect to data in Excel … today I want to show you one that many people overlook. You can simply drag an icon for a file that Tableau recognizes (Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel or a Text File like...
DFW.TUG Year End Retrospective
Last night was the Dallas – Fort Worth Tableau user group’s annual holiday party. They say there aint no party like a data geek party, I think the 15 data geeks in attendance last night would agree! One of my favorite traditions is the year end...
Enhanced 2011 Final Harris Poll Results Tableau Style
As the last week of the college regular season football schedule ended, the big debate was if Oklahoma State did enough to earn a spot in the BCS Championship game. As an Oklahoma state fan, I believe they did, after they demolished a pre-season...
Improved Waterfall Chart in Tableau
A waterfall chart is visualization that helps illustrate the cumulative effect of multiple data elements. The waterfall chart isn’t my favorite visual, but I've softened to it lately. It's hard to not like a chart that is sometimes called the Mario chart due to the suspension of...
Dashboard Failure
Nobody blogs about failure, right? In meetings and during training sessions I often talk about both failure and success. Specifically, I often mention my definition of dashboard failure which is if the user asks: "Can I download this data into Excel?" This will, of course, happen but your...
Three Points to Remember for Success With Tableau and OLAP Cubes
From time to time, clients create proof-of-concept dashboards in Excel or other relational data source and then hit a wall converting it to an OLAP cube. I’m never surprised to see it happen. What most people don’t realize is that Tableau behaves much differently when...
Custom Table Calculations Part 2
This is the second post on Table Calculations in Tableau. The first post covered the Groundwork, pill types, a worksheet layout, and the basics of the TOTAL() function. This post will look at what I consider the functions: INDEX(), FIRST(), LAST(), and SIZE(), partitioning vs....
Groundwork for Custom Table Calculations
Custom Table Calculations is one of the most advanced concepts in Tableau. The main resources Tableau provides can be found at On-Demand Training - Table Calculations (requires sign in) and Top 10 Tableau Table Calculations where you can find a variety of examples and a white paper with additional details....
Nato Operations in Libya – The Guardian
I'm not a great fan of infographics, they don't assist the viewer in understanding the core story being told, so here's my alternative version of a Guardian produced infographic. See below for the original: Although pretty and colourful does it make it easy to understand the...
City of London Spending – Jan 2011 to September 2011
It's always interesting to see where government is spending so here's some data on a platter...
To the point
At the recent Tableau Customer Conference (more on this later) one of the many excellent sessions I sat in on was Tips and Tricks From The Wild. Last up was the Tableau jedi, Joe Mako (@joemako or on Google+). Within the Tableau community Joe is famed...
InterWorks Secures GSA Contract to Offer Tableau Software Training and Database Management Consulting to Government Agencies
STILLWATER, OKLA. – Under General Services Administration (GSA) Contract #GS-35F-0575X, InterWorks is now able to offer Tableau Software training, data visualization consulting, and database design and management services to federal, state, and local government agencies. InterWorks will also offer government agencies additional technology services, including: system...
InterWorks Named “Key Partner” in Worldwide Tableau Partner Program
Stillwater, OKLA – Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, has announced the release of an enhanced worldwide partner program and named InterWorks a “key partner” in the success of the Tableau Partner Program. This confirms InterWorks position as the foremost Tableau...
InterWorks Offers Tableau Training and Business Intelligence Consulting Services in Europe
STILLWATER, OKLA. – The premier Tableau Software training and business intelligence consulting firm in the United States now offers consulting services to customers across the globe. Our experienced, multi-national team of Tableau Certified Professionals will provide customized solutions to customers throughout Europe. Business intelligence consulting services...