The last post in this series showed you how to use the Wildcard union and the Manual union to join four years of sales data that was stored in four different worksheets. In this post, you’ll see how the cleaning step can be used to...
While it isn’t our recommended approach, Portals for Tableau can be hosted in a container environment, such as Docker. There be dragons with this process, so consider this your dragon-slaying guide. Persistent Database and Filesystem Portals for Tableau uses a small database to house your portal’s configuration....
Before you begin building a workflow using Tableau Prep, it’s helpful to know a little bit about the data source(s) you need to connect to. Consider the following: What kind of source are you connecting to? How large are the files? Record counts? Rows/columns? Are...
As designers and analysts, we often overlook qualitative data in favor of easily measured metrics. We focus on things things like money spent, products sold, click-through rates and logins because numbers are easy, and dashboards are sexy. But if our goal is to produce products...
What’s better—asking someone else about your data or asking the data itself? Why not both? In this episode of Podcast Your Data, InterWorks analytics consultant Katie Bridges welcomes Ruhaab Markas from Tableau to discuss the new software feature, Ask Data. Listen in as Ruhaab shares...
Tableau Prep Builder and Conductor are Tableau’s tools for enabling repeatable, documented and scheduled workflows to transform raw data into user-friendly datasets. Tableau Prep Builder’s first live release came in April 2018 in Desktop 2018.1, and since then, we’ve had four major releases and eight...
You might look at Portals for Tableau and think, “Wow! These people must be geniuses with how many great features they keep coming up with!” (I wouldn’t say we’re all geniuses, but I also won’t stop you from saying that). In actuality, we get a...
Planning a holiday can be quite stressful in its own right. However, when I was planning a recent trip to Asia that involved making multiple stops across many countries, it was even more so! My fiancé’s cousin was getting married in Okinawa, so we decided...
Images on your dashboard, combined with visual best practices, make a huge difference when it comes to the impact of your work. My years of experience as an analytics consultant in Australia have told me that dashboards are judged by stakeholders on four criteria: data,...
Pie charts are one of the most iconic data visualisation styles; in the past, they have been the bedrock of many a PowerPoint presentation. When you start to look a little closer, however, as many data-viz purists have, you begin to notice that they have some...
Your data and the insights you glean from it tell a story. It’s important to make that story as strong and streamlined as possible, but figuring out how to craft that narrative and communicate actionable findings can be a challenge. In this webinar, Analytics Practice...
Snowflake and Tableau are tech powerhouses that facilitate the management of ever-increasing volumes of varying data, and we at InterWorks are thrilled to partner with them in creating unique and tailormade data solutions for clients. Want to know how combining these two technologies can help you...
Thoughtful design and intentional timing can make a huge difference when it comes to driving traffic to that dashboard you spent so much time putting together. In this webinar, analytics consultant Brenden Goetz talks through a few of his dashboards that have been recognized as...
Question: I’m trying to use a sheet swap toggle between two chart types, but in the layout container, the sheet is keeping space and not minimizing to the bottom of the screen. Based on the issue and the behavior Tableau was showing, my first assumption was...
Cue the montage… Report Builder 3: All Grown Up You felt things for the plucky new Report Builder feature when it was first released as just an export tool way back in February 2018: In the sequel just a few short months later, you watched as it got...
Today we wrap up season one with the final episode of Quantified. Our topic? How can we be good students of data and what are the steps we can take to start out our data journey right. Please welcome back InterWorks training lead Katie Wagner...
The final example of using distance calculations in Tableau looks at clustering cities based on their relative distance to a selected set of points. This is based on the table calculation method we looked at in the previous two sections, with the formula I called...
The release of Tableau 2019.2 is right around the corner, and today, we are talking to the brains behind the latest update. In this episode, InterWorks analytics consultant Robert Rouse welcomes Tableau engineers Samantha Lin and Phil Naranjo as they give us some insight into...
Question: I’m using the NOW function to show the current date and time in an analysis I’m building for our assembly line, but when I add to my report, it’s showing me all data for all of time. How can I get this to show...
In this next scenario, we are going to look at which distribution center is closest to a selected city. This is highly similar to the previous scenario with a change to the setup for the crosstab’s filtering. We need to have a two-level sort similar...
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