I hear a lot of reasons people avoid a data warehouse: It takes too long to build, data warehouse projects are expensive and often end in failure, I’m good with a dedicated table to support each of my reports. In future posts, we’ll look more closely at...
Are you an avid cyclist who regularly uses Strava to track segments and claim K/QOM? Are you a data fiend that yearns to analyze and manipulate fitness tracker data in Alteryx for visualization in Tableau? Well, now you can! In this two-part series, I’ll detail the...
As a data-driven society and Tableau junkies, connecting to your favorite data sources easier is definitely a welcome sight. Tableau does this very well with a slew of standard data connectors. But, what if the data you want to connect to is from a web...
Alteryx Inspire, Alteryx’s annual user conference, ended a few weeks ago. As part of the conference, Alteryx recognized four of the most influential leaders within the Alteryx community today. These leaders are known as Alteryx Aces. We are big Alteryx fans here at InterWorks, and were...
The Drawing Tool has been incorporated into CBI Studio by InterWorks. Explore CBI Studio to see what’s new. People working with Tableau come from many different backgrounds. They’re analysts, data journalists, graphic designers or just curious people wanting an upgrade from their spreadsheet. Regardless of who...
Is there a better way to share your passion for Tableau, learn new things by the hour and touch base with the community than visiting a Tableau Conference? I will let you be the judge of that, but after an amazing conference in London we...
I’m the kind of person who binges on real-time charts during election nights, but not this voting season. My interest is waning because of a sense that political divisions have become deeper, less civil, and less thoughtful in recent years. Is that intuition correct, or...
On our tenth show, InterWorks' own Derrick Austin joins Tim and reminisces about always being an early adopter of internet technologies, gets excited about the Internet of Things and the Quantified Office, and explains how bees aren't that scary. Subscribe to Podcast Your Data through iTunes, Stitcher,...
Another great question from one of my Advanced classes as posed by Yelda: "I love box-and-whisker plots, but how do I export that data out? I want to grab the median, the quartiles, everything and put it into a crosstab." Awesome question! Let’s find a solution.bo Box Plots As...
At the start of this Deep Dive series, I stated that there were four standard use cases for parameters: filters, bins, reference lines and calculated fields. What about other areas, such as table calculations? Why can’t we use parameters there? The answer is: You can! You just...
Tableau in the Cloud Tableau and Google already form a potent mix, as Tableau supports a number of Google's data sources with native connectors, such as Google BigQuery, Google Analytics and Google Cloud SQL. But as of last month, Tableau Server is certified for use on...
I first became aware of Mark from his Tableau beta program participation. He was putting out excellent performance test metrics out on the Tableau beta website that were very helpful. I’ve had the good fortune to get to know mark better through the Tableau Conference,...
From my Melbourne Advanced class last week, I received the following question from one of my students, Arpan: "Can I manually set the colors of a stepped gradient?" The quick answer is: Yes, you can! Let’s learn more about this question and potential use cases for the solution. Stepped...
If you want your mind blown, read this article; but don’t start listening to the podcast or watching the videos until you have a couple of hours to burn. AI, Virtual Reality and the Inevitable While I was working out this morning at the YMCA, I started...
Have you ever needed an easy source of coal usage data over time? Maybe your project calls for electricity consumption or petroleum prices. Luckily, the U.S. Energy Information Administration has all of the energy metrics you could imagine! Collecting this data isn’t terribly complicated, but it can be time...
Tableau 10 includes new functions in the JavaScript API that give access to underlying data and summary data in a worksheet. As of this version, you can build dynamic web interfaces or custom visualizations using data from Tableau. I have previously showed how to integrate...
Data architect and analyst JJ Burnam joins InterWorks' Tim to talk music and touring, radio, data communities and agile data warehousing! Subscribe to Podcast Your Data through iTunes, Stitcher, Pocket Casts or your favorite podcasting app....
In the next article of our Deep Dive on Parameters, we will examine reference lines. Remember, there are a lot of ways to add reference lines to your view: the Analysis drop-down menu, the Analytics pane or right-clicking on the measures axis. Also, reference line...
In the next article of our Deep Dive on parameters, we’ll explore how we can use parameters to allow our report users to choose the size of their bins within a histogram. Histogram Review We talked about the histogram in our Tableau Essentials series here. It’s a...
Have you ever needed an easy source of GDP data over time? Maybe your project calls for unemployment rates or federal debt. Luckily, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has a treasure trove of interesting economic metrics like these in a database named “FRED”. Collecting this...
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