When historians look back on the 20th Century, it can be summed up best by four major milestones: The Allies win the war America puts a man on the moon The invention of the personal computer “Star Wars” All of these are truly remarkable feats, but I’ll...
Key Performance Indicators are one of the most common things people need to display in a dashboard. This usually involves comparing current values or historical trends against a target value. Tableau makes it easy to show current values and trends in one dashboard, but this...
Let’s take a look at our next guideline from the Rendering category: "Minimize the file size of any images or custom shapes where possible. As a general rule of thumb, keep images under 50kb." Let’s get started, shall we? Images & Custom Shapes In regards to rendering, images and...
I recently found a data set that was perfect for testing out the new Data Interpreter in Tableau 9.2. While discussions about Syrian refugees were ramping up, I sought out data about the situation, which led me to the UNHCR page dedicated to this crisis....
At the beginning of my career with InterWorks, I knew only a fraction of what I do now about the Tableau Desktop tool. One of my very first posts mentioned the new Mac connector in 8.2. Upon the release of Tableau 9.2, I’m back to...
In the previous article on Tableau Drive, we explored the necessary partnership between the leadership of the business and IT that must be forged to successfully implement the Tableau Drive methodology. We briefly visited the role of each group in this partnership. Today, we’ll more...
I love that old song, mostly because it drives my teenagers crazy when I sing it out loud (and loudly) whenever we are out and about. Protip: Teenagers will do almost anything to avoid being embarrassed. I’ve had my car washed, my kitchen mopped and...
A common question that often comes up in trainings is: “How can I add conditional formatting to my visualizations?” Conditional formatting can be a useful way to call attention to textual data. Common cases of conditional formatting involve using Color or Symbols (That’s symbols for all...
It's finally here. I'm not talking about Thanksgiving, I'm talking about the single greatest weekend of college football in the state of Oklahoma: Bedlam. The contest pits the state's two largest universities, Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma, against each other on the...
A common question that often comes up in trainings is: “How do I utilize the Pivot feature in Tableau to make building charts easier?” What does it mean to pivot data? A pivot is a transformation of data structure from a wide view (many columns) to a...
A common question that often comes up in trainings is: “How do I add gaps between the bars of my visualizations?” The first thing to know is whether or not your graph should have spaces between the bars or not. If you are trying to visualize ordered...
Last week, we shared a link to InterWorks and Princeton University's sponsored session at Tableau Conference 2015. Today, we'd like to share even more sessions from some of InterWorks' friends and clients. Below, you can discover how Arby's and Cars.com have used Tableau to forever change...
Two weeks ago, I shared "TCU @ Oklahoma State by the Numbers." TCU had a solid advantage over OSU in most statistical categories leading into that game, yet OSU defied the numbers and came out with a convincing win. Last week, OSU scraped out a hard-fought win on the road at Iowa State...
The ability to create macros that can be shared and used in other workflows as tools is one of the greatest features of Alteryx. Each macro works like a user-defined function that you would create in another language, like R. A standard macro takes a...
One of my favorite chart types in Tableau is the dual-axis chart. It’s a thing of beauty! Most often in client engagements, this chart type will be used to compare a base metric with a series of user-selected secondary metrics via a parameter. The best...
Above: Princeton's Heather Campbell presenting at TC15. We did a lot of fun things at Tableau Conference 2015, but one of our favorites was presenting a session with our friends over at Princeton University. InterWorks' Kate Treadwell took the stage with Princeton's Director of Analytics & Data...
For a variety of reasons, businesses do not always tie their fiscal year to the standard calendar year. There are numerous explanations of why this might be beneficial to an organization, and they all seem to lead several of my clients to the exact same...
Many of us embed visualizations in our websites, and they likely look great on our own monitors, but what about on your boss’s giant, 28-inch iMac monitor? How do they look on a projector? How do they look on an iPad? In today’s world of varying...
A common question that often comes up in trainings is: “How do I run a 'difference between two dates' calculation only considering business days?” In order to focus on business days, we need to adjust our calculated field to define what a “Business Day” is. First, we need...
Let’s take a look at the next item on our rending category. "Limit the use of detailed text tables with lots of marks." Ah yes, the fabled Text Table. Mark Counts Let’s start this discussion by reviewing mark counts. We covered this in the previous Rendering article in the...
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