Picture this: You are trying to build a sales dashboard in Tableau Desktop to show your boss how great you are. But hey, there is one issue: The data you have is currently in a structure not suitable for Tableau Desktop. You need to crosstab...
Normally when I build a dashboard, I approach it like a funnel: I start with the big picture first and then narrow into more specific details. This allows viewers to establish context and get the most important insights right from the start and then choose...
First-time host and InterWorks' representation in Singapore Jia Liu stomps around with Datasaurus Rex David Murphy. David is from England but seized the opportunity to travel the world and ended up in Singapore, where he works and co-leads the Singapore Tableau User Group. Find out...
Question for this week: My users love the dashboards, but they want to get an email with the dashboard filtered to their specific options without having to click the filter. Can we set up a script to send an email to the user with their dashboard...
Everyone is familiar with Google Analytics for tracking web usage. However, some organizations have policies that don’t allow for that data to be collected by a third party or don’t like Google Analytics for some other reason. For instance, maybe Google Analytics forgot to send you...
For the second post in my continuing series on Snowflake, I wanted to expand on some concepts covered in my JSON post. Last month, I walked you through how to work with JSON in Snowflake and discussed the process Snowflake uses to flatten JSON arrays...
I grew up watching college football and always remembered that iconic maize and blue. Now as an adult, Michigan football is somewhat of a family tradition. I watch their games every Saturday during the year with my friends and family, occasionally making the trip up...
Ottawa: Capital city to our neighbor to the north, Canada. Home to astronauts, comedians, musicians and more. The University of Ottawa educated the greatest game show host of all time, Alex Trebek, who studied philosophy (presumably because he couldn’t major in trivia). But most exciting of...
A question that seems to come up every so often as a consultant is around how Tableau doesn’t show data where there is no data. Sounds kinda obvious, doesn’t it? But let’s frame this slightly differently and we can see that whilst this does make...
"My LOD calculation results are not matching up during QA, and I can’t figure out what’s different. Can we hop on a screenshare to discuss?" We hopped on a screenshare with the client. Upon reviewing the two views with her, everything appeared to be in order...
Two weeks ago, I attended my first Tableau Conference in London. I really enjoyed three fantastic days and decided to write a short blog about it, sharing some tips on how to be well prepared. But first, here's a fun recap video I put together about...
The #makeovermonday project, led by Andy Kriebel and Eva Murray, puts out a public data set each week, challenging data vizzers to find a different way to present the data. It’s a great way to practice your visualization skills and force yourself to work with...
Was anyone else fascinated with the American sitcom “The Jetsons” growing up? I know I was. The imaginative, futuristic world was so captivating to me, making me wonder if we would ever have holograms or talking robots. I was most intrigued by the flying cars,...
Note: As of version 2020.4, creating a map with multiple layers is much simpler than the dual-axis method described in this post. Check out the multiple map layer functionality here. If you are just looking for the TL;DR quick solution to mapping two spatial files of...
THE ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER! Okay, that's not entirely accurate...
This is the second part in a two-part series on securing your personal data on the web. In part one, I discussed securing your email, web browser and search engine with a variety of tools and techniques that will begin blocking unwanted collection of your...
You’re a young adult in Tulsa in 2007 and you’ve got a date at a hip, new froyo place. You think to yourself (because you won’t listen to Mom), “Oh, that construction on 71st is so lame. I’m going to avoid it by speeding down...
The multi-select parameter control is a feature many that Tableau enthusiasts would love to take advantage of. While the multi-select parameter option isn’t available natively within Tableau, we’ve enabled the multi-select parameter feature within Portals for Tableau! Big props to Matthew Orr and the Portals...
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. Here's the InterWorks Assist question for this week's post: "I have a situation where one of our power users left the company, and I’m having trouble finding the data connections related to them as they aren’t...
We have now reached the final part of our Tableau Tables Trilogy. For this part, we will be covering what I call the table/chart combo. Why do this? The reason is quite simple. More often than not, people consume data in a table format, spending...
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