As purveyors of analytics, we often come against the buttresses of change aversion. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the lack of acceptance of Tableau tooltips. How often do you present your end users with a powerful and dynamic viz only to be met with, “But where...
It's a data nerd's favorite time of year! That's right, the 2017 Tableau Conference has come and gone with all the updates and announcements you crave. Don't forget that you can be part of the action via Tableau's conference site, where videos from keynotes and sessions are available...
While working with a recent client, we tried to answer which product categories their business should keep investing in and which categories are not worth the effort of selling. At this point, I remembered the strategic marketing classes I took during my time at university....
Another Autumn another update from the good people at Tableau. Tableau 10.4 acts as the third major update of the software within the 2017 calendar year. Let’s have a look at the main new features of 10.4 on both Tableau Server and Tableau Desktop that...
So, a little about me, the author: I'm a chartered accountant and my background is in building finance functions and creating financial performance analysis reporting functions. I trained in a public practice and, after around six years, moved into industry. I've been working in industry...
With the 2017 Tableau Conference next week, we decided to post a special bonus episode for everyone! On this week’s "Podcast Your Data!," David Pires from InterWorks EU hosts a roundtable discussion on BI trends in large organizations. Panelists include Paul Banoub from London, Paul Chapman...
This week’s PYD! is extra special as we have not one, but two Zen Masters! Okay, one current and one former, but still! InterWorks’ Dan Murray chats with Piedmont Healthcare’s Director of Business Intelligence, Mark Jackson. They’re long-time acquaintances and jump right into the data talk!...
Quick table calculations in Tableau are a great way to understand and visualise relationships between measure values. The most frequently used calculation types (running total, difference and percent difference) are core metrics in most financial management reports. What Are Ad Hoc Calculations? Quick table calculations were created to...
Let me start off by asking two questions: Why should we learn to code? Why use Python? If you type either question in Google, you’ll receive a long list of differentiating, yet persuasive answers. Knowing how to code is an empowering feeling and skill. From my perspective as a data...
As the first post in a series about Tableau Server on Linux, I wanted to share a quick note and some promising results of performance testing in the upcoming release. The TL;DR Tableau Server on Linux = Joy. Median dashboard load times were cut 40-60% compared to...
The ultimate goal of this Deep Dive on Dashboard Design is to guide Tableau Desktop users on how to create a dashboard from start to finish. That conversation would not be complete unless we went the extra mile. I’m talking about publishing the dashboard of course....
If you are not already familiar with cross joins, you may want to read through my first post in this series for another use case. In this article, I will further define and expand on cross joins. What's a Cross Join? Sometimes we are stuck working with...
Tableau ambassador and InterWorks EU consultant David Pires talks with Peter Gilks on this week’s episode of Podcast Your Data! Peter is a statistics veteran after working at Slalom and now Spotify as the Director of Product Insights. He’ll also be attending and speaking at...
When you think about “time,” what do you think of? Google generates time as an analogue clock face. Reading the orientation of the two clock hands is one the first skills we learn, even in the digital age. So, why not utilize this cognitive consonance...
The Drawing Tool has been incorporated into CBI Studio by InterWorks. Explore CBI Studio to see what’s new. When I first started using Tableau, I was most excited to start trying out the map tool. It can take city names, zip codes or country names and turn them into...
Last week, our Australian based Analytics Consultant, Robert Curtis, took part in the annual Tableau Fringe Festival. Several industry leaders took part in the day-long webinar to teach, give advice and share Tableau best practices. Although the webinar was primarily attended by our friends in the...
On this week’s episode, InterWorks Analytics Consultant and Alteryx Ace, Michael Treadwell sits down with Hadley Wickham. As an author, contributor and Chief Scientist at R Studio, Hadley is on the forefront of building better tools for data science. Even if you don’t have a...
Have you ever come across a problem where you would like to visualise the data to understand it better? If the data resides in a table on a website, how would you solve it? Typically, people try to export the table or copy it into...
This is one of the many questions I get asked as a Tableau Trainer. It may seem straight forward enough, but it isn’t! “Is there a way to work out how many active customers we have at any given time?” Prepping the Data Most clients have data that...
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. Zion Spencer is back at it with another Power Tools for Tableau demo video! Our dive into Power Tools: Desktop wraps up with a look at the Workbook Merge tool. You can see the other demos...
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