As a follow-up to my prior blog post, I wanted to explore an additional use case for aggregation in Tableau: joining together data that might be at different date levels. It’s the same premise—you have two data sources at two levels of detail (e.g. row-level...
When you were in school, did you have pages and pages of your notebook filled up with different variations of your name? Maybe you prefixed it with Dr. Maybe you changed your last name to that of your crush. Maybe you were trying to find...
Question: I’ve published my data source to Server and set the refresh schedule, but the refresh keeps failing with the error message “Connectionless Failure.” What am I missing here to get this working? I’ve seen this message many times over the years. It’s more generic than...
You love Portals for Tableau, so much so that you wish it were easier to get to it on your smartphone. You long for the experience that comes with just tapping a button on your home screen to launch it like many of your other...
I often find myself building dashboards with a parameter to compare baseline data to different scenarios. Because these scenarios are built out in different worksheets, I am faced with the challenge of correctly displaying changes in results compared to each other. In the mocked-up example...
Starting in version 2018.2 for Windows, Tableau Server comes with some very exciting features, especially if you’re a server administrator. Collectively named TSM, Tableau has included new management tools, improved administrative interfaces, and better configuration-change handling. These will impact every aspect of your Tableau Server...
Transitioning your Tableau platform to the cloud has huge benefits, but that process can come with lots of questions and uncertainty about best practices. This webinar features some InterWorks experts who answer those questions and help you chart a path for data migration. Solutions Architect Matthew...
Hosting your analytic platform in the cloud is the next stage of data analytics, and now is the time to migrate that data. InterWorks Solutions Architect Mat Hughes and Data Practice Lead, Brian Bickell, lead a webinar on how deployment can advance your business and...
Do you ever have those watercooler debates at work that never get a real sense of finality? A coworker claims the trade OKC made for Carmelo Anthony was worth it, and you know in your heart that they are completely wrong, but you keep it...
Visualizing financial statements is hard. While not inherently a difficult task, when I speak with many of my clients' financial teams, their data tends to be some of the most sensitive that the company possesses, and for that reason, its presentation is very particularly curated....
Happy New Year to all the readers of the InterWorks blog; 2018 has been a whirlwind of a year! In 2018, InterWorks steadily provided value to our clients in the data space, and as we kick off 2019, it seemed appropriate to prep you guys...
This visualization has a personal aspect for me. In April 2017, I was approached by the Tableau Foundation to volunteer my Tableau skills to teach data literacy and Tableau Desktop to government agencies in Myanmar (formerly Burma) with the hope of empowering them with good information...
Since I have started using Tableau Prep, I can’t overstate how helpful it has been for cleaning, shaping and exploring my data before I start visualizing it in Tableau Desktop. However, one concept eluded me at first, and that was the Aggregate step. Why add...
With the release of Tableau Prep in April 2018, analysts have been given an incredibly valuable tool for their analytical kit. Considering both performance and ease of use, prepping your data before it enters Tableau Desktop has many benefits. I’ve created the following walkthrough to...
Question: I’m building a simple report for my manager. As I add new fields into the report, the first few dimensions that I’ve added are grouping together into a single column. They are separated by commas. I’ve tried adding width to the screen, but that...
When it came to the best solution for integrating Tableau dashboards in 2018, embedded analytics dominated. Once you’ve created the perfect dashboard and it’s been published to Tableau Server, driving traffic to it can be a challenge ...
Table calculations enable you to do amazing things in Tableau. However, these work off of data that has already been aggregated. For example, a moving average is the moving average of the sum of some metric for each period. What if we needed a way...
I have always been interested in personality types. They are helpful in giving clues into how people think and behave. So, I wanted to build a dashboard to allow people to explore how they compare to others who have taken the Myers Briggs Personality Test....
Question: I thought this would be easy and just a check somewhere, but I can’t figure out how to reverse the order of the colors. As new months are added, they go to the left. I want them on the right. What is the magic...
It's something that keeps us all up at night - will the robots take over tomorrow? Okay, maybe you don't worry about it. And neither does Daniel Whitenack. Daniel is a data scientist, professor, podcaster, and innovator in the space of artificial intelligence and machine learning. And...
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