“Data for data’s sake is a path to disaster” As is so often the case, various colleagues, friends and random members of the data culture offer up ideas regarding the use of Tableau, data and design. Sure, some of these “Huh, I wonder if I can...
Our business intelligence consultants are constantly engaged in tackling challenge after challenge. The individual capabilities of each are impressive enough, but what they accomplish together is what makes them such an effective team. We’ve decided to share some of the solutions they’ve created together in...
In light of the Tableau 8 launch today, I decided it might be a great time to share one last tip for Tableau 7, for those who might not be upgrading right away. Here we go.All starts with a question: Can I use a URL action...
This week I had the pleasure of speaking in Boston at EACUBO with a friend and business associate, Ted Curran (Executive Director of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University). EACUBO aims to promote high-quality, professional development opportunities to higher education officers. This, year Ted and I...
InterWorks will join Tableau Software on the nationwide Tableau 8 Tour to promote the newest release of Tableau. InterWorks Inc in the US will be sponsoring the US tour dates, and InterWorks Europe will be sponsoring the Manchester and London dates. The coast-to-coast, 42-stop tour...
I’m en route to San Jose for some work with a new client then a weekend in Salt Lake City for a few laps on the Great White Icicle! I usually try to have some kind of grander plan for my blogs, but...
En route to Portland, Oregon to celebrate Chris’ 30th birthday! Another quick blog post here to walk through a technique I use often with my clients who have a Tableau Server setup. This is a great technique to really take advantage of two of Tableau’s...
Week two of the RBS 6 Nations Championship is now in the books. 3 excellent matches were scheduled over this past weekend, with the highlight expected to be the highly billed championship decider in Dublin between Ireland and England. Game Previews: The first match taking place on...
6 Nations Week 1 Individual Game Scoring Analysis Welcome to my first ever Blog as part of InterWorks Europe. It's an exciting time here at InterWorks Europe which just so happens to coincide with the Annual 6 Nations Rugby Championship. Rugby for me is a passion, being...
If you're a Tableau Server administrator or publisher of content to Tableau Server, then you probably at some point wondered how popular your dashboards and views are. Tableau fortunately has a simple answer to that with their Server Admin views. If you've ever wanted to...
In general, Tableau Server is relatively easy to administer. This is in large part due to having very few configuration items you can adjust. The less you can tweak, the less chance you’re going to break something. Sometimes this leaves much to be desired, but...
With 2012 behind us, we charge full-speed ahead into the new era of Visual Analytics and Big Data. First, let me define these terms and discuss them briefly, then I'll break down how to put together your Business Intelligence (BI) ecosystem and organization structure going...
I'm enjoying the fire here in Telluride, Colorado and thought I'd put up a fun blog post while nursing my sore arms. I had the idea for this a few weeks back while working with a great new client in Columbus, Ohio and have finally...
Last week in Houston a student from another Tableau class submitted a question about how to properly create date calculations. For users across the experience spectrum, date calculations can be confusing and frustrating. Often students are intimidated by all of the available functions such as...
In this video I describe the concept of Source Code Control and demonstrate how you can use source code control (in this case Redgate’s SQL Source Control) to manage changes in your SQL Server database. Are you using any form of source code control in...
A common question I've received from new Vertica users is, "How do I enter newlines into a string literal, or use other backslash sequences like 't'?" This is especially common from users transitioning from systems like MySQL that do not use SQL standard-conforming string literals,...
After the amazing show Tableau Software put on for us at this year's Tableau Customer Conference, the BI community was abuzz with excitement about the upcoming Tableau 8. Fortunately, we weren't kept waiting long. Beta access is widely available at this point. My colleagues have...
Social Media data is one of the fastest growth areas in the BI world. The dashboard below shows one of the possible ways you could use Facebook data. This dashboard focuses on the demographic, who, where, how many and what they think. The data for this...
In one of most recent projects I was asked to show a running sum of a measure over all of time. However they only wanted to see a particular window in time of this running sum that was calculated since the start of time. This was...
Back with another blog post fast on the heels of #TCC2012! Now that we’ve seen Christian’s and Chris’ amazing introduction to Tableau 8 in the TCC Keynote, here are some of the Tableau 8 elements the team and I are looking forward to. Overall, this looks...
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