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...
Most people in your company are not database experts. They are interested in something other than databases and ELT programs. They want information that supports their work needs. Human beings are visual creatures, and interactive dashboards are visual data expressions. Dashboards enable everyone to see, understand...
The plans, quotes and project deliverables your selected consulting partner helped you develop should include a proof-of-concept project recommendation based on your combined due diligence. The proof-of-concept (POC) sprint is a crucial subproject that tests your platform and software selections. The first dashboards your end users...
Data workflows are like hiking boots — good-fitting ones can take you anywhere. Ill-fitting ones spawn misery. As you document the existing workflows in discovery meetings, these details will influence your software selections — the tools for the data workflows. The amount and type of work...
If you’re new to User-Centered Dashboard Development (UCDD), please check out the earlier posts in this series (also found at the bottom of this post) to get acclimated, then come back here! We’re almost to the end of our UCDD Framework and today will cover phase...
An essential part of any business intelligence system plan is to collect information on the vital data workflows within your company. An ounce of discovery is worth a pound of remediation. -Adapted from Benjamin Franklin During discovery, identify the business processes that comprise operations and provide data outputs....
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...
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,...
In the previous post (that you can read here), we started doing some analysis on airline reviews. We did very basic data preparation, used the Dataiku Sentiment Analysis plugin and evaluated the model with the help of a confusion matrix. In this blogpost, we will...
A strategy vision roadmap (SVR) is a document that details the purpose of the project, expected benefits, training plans, project timeframe, proof-of-concept testing and validation. The SVR summarizes the overall project plan while also time-phasing all significant sub-projects (sprints) necessary to complete all the deliverables....
In this post, I'll cover team composition, focusing on technical and operational staff that will form the core of your team. The need for more detailed information about your business drives the desire to deploy a BI system. Typical goals include achieving better reporting, more detailed...
One thing I noticed: there's one last step that I always take before heading out into the street with two overflowing grocery bags. Just before the exit, I push the handicap door opener on my right. And it stays open long enough for me and...
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...
This blog post series aims to provide the unfamiliar leader or participant with a view of what is required to successfully deploy a business intelligence (BI) system to ensure success. Deploying a BI system is challenging. Why would you want to undertake a project to...
If you’re new to User-Centered Dashboard Development (UCDD), please check out the earlier posts (also found at the bottom of this post) to get acclimated, then come back here! Above: "Three… Two… One… Blast off!" The time is here to launch our dashboard to our end...
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...
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...
In previous articles in this series, we have demonstrated how to set up Azure Functions to leverage Snowpark for Python. This allows us to interact with Snowflake from an Azure Function, unlocking a wide range of opportunities for scripting activity. In this article, we will focus...
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...
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...
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