March Madness Brackets Visualized in Tableau
(Cues Music) “It’s the most wonderful time, of the year ...
Channel
Data
One Weird Trick for Smarter Map Labels in Tableau
Tableau is great at mapping, but sometimes labels don’t show up where you want them. Labels on marks that are too close to each other are hidden by default to prevent overlapping text. That’s a good thing. When you have several in a small area...
URL Parameters in Tableau
Why would you need to use URL parameters in Tableau Server? Below is an example of a list of order dates.Thanks to Tableau's massive amount of built in date functions we can do just about anything with them but what if we want to find...
InterWorks and Alteryx Team Up for Training, Peanut Butter and Jelly Said to Be Jealous
What happens when you install Alteryx on 15 machines, fill the room with data experts from a variety of industries and add an excellent trainer? You get the Alteryx Fundamentals Public Course. Not only do you gain perspective from other classmates, but the trainer is...
Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index Visualized in Tableau
Are you happy where you live? Have you thought about moving to another state? Gallup-Healthways recently released their latest Well-Being Index report, outlining well-being across every state in America. The report is a downloadable PDF, available here. It takes some effort to filter through, which is...
The Tableau Cookbook: Donut Charts
Donut* charts offer a quick, high-level view of data dimensions that have few members, and together, contribute to a whole. Essentially, it's a pie chart with a hole. It's not glamorous, but it's quick and informative. The extra level introduced by the donut hole allows...
DATART – Using Tableau & Superstore to Create Digital Art
As a data analyst, it’s fitting that I love data. The information we can gather, allowing us to learn more about our world, understand complex issues and solve perplexing problems, is absolutely spectacular. With Tableau, we can accomplish these feats with greater speed, precision, and...
How I Went from Architecture to Business Intelligence Analyst
The role of Business Intelligence Consultant / Analyst is a very new field, and as such, it is composed of transplants from other industries. None of us were born with the mindset, "when I grow up I want to be a data analyst!" Most of...
Questions from Tableau Training: Labeling with Table Calculations
Continuing with the ‘Questions from Tableau Training’ series, I was asked a labeling question with regards to a time series chart. The question was: “How you can get multiple labels combined into one tooltip?” The example that we were working on was a time series chart for...
Handling Trend-less Trend Lines with Tableau
If you’re reading this post, you already know that the trend line is the gold standard when it comes to viewing data over time. However, the visual impact of a trend line plummets if the data are too thin. The images below highlight a common...
InterWorks’ Dan Murray Presents to Portland TUG at Nike Headquarters
InterWorks' Director of Business Intelligence, Dan Murray recently went to Nike World Headquarters to speak to the Portland Tableau User Group. Our friends at Nike recorded Murray's presentation and said some nice things about InterWorks and Murray. Portland was one of many stops along the...
InterWorks Partners Tableau Software, Alteryx Rank High in Gartner’s 2014 ‘Magic Quadrant for BI & Analytics Platforms’
Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms was recently released, and we weren’t surprised with the results. Tableau Software and Alteryx, both of which are InterWorks partners, made the Magic Quadrant for the second consecutive year. What’s more impressive? Both have done...
Visualizing Public Transportation Data from DIVVY in Chicago with Tableau 8.1
DIVVY Bike Share Program (http://divvybikes.com/about) sent out a cattle call for beautiful and informative data visualizations from their actual rider and bike databases. (http://divvybikes.com/datachallenge) In my quick response, I took a look at the very basic output from the data with no reshaping or modelling. Even...
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Medal Count Visualized via Tableau
The 2014 Winter Olympic in Sochi are coming to a close. Since I haven't seen many vizzes surrounding these current games, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to create a Tableau viz about everyone's favorite statistic: the medal count. You can check out the...
Tableau Pills: Continuous and Discrete Data Roles
This is the second in a three part series related to the four types of pills in Tableau. As mentioned previously, the four data types are discrete dimension, continuous dimension, discrete measure, and continuous measure. The first part of this series discussed the differences between...
InterWorks Unveils Power Tools for Tableau
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. All of us at InterWorks are ecstatic to announce that we’ve been working on some pretty slick new tools surrounding Tableau. Given that we’re the ultimate Tableau evangelists, it only makes sense that we’re obsessed...
Slow SQL Server Query? Here’s How to Build a Proper Covering Index
As a developer who interacts with SQL Server often, the queries I write for the data I need are often slow. Take the query below as an example: This seems like a very simple query without much room for optimization. In fact, it does not take...
When Silence isn’t Golden
Most data analysis is concerned with understanding what the data tells us - for example understanding if business is growing or not and discovering how sales are developing in different territories or across product lines. But sometimes the story the data is not telling can be...
Observations from the ‘Tableau Your Data!’ Tour
I’m writing this from my brother-in-law’s home in West Milford, NJ. It’s a welcome break from hotel rooms. This afternoon and evening I’m looking forward to giving another speech to the New York Tableau User Group. Spending the last few months speaking at Tableau User Groups...