Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms was recently released, and we weren’t surprised with the results. Tableau Software and Alteryx, both of which are InterWorks partners, made the Magic Quadrant for the second consecutive year. What’s more impressive? Both have done...
DIVVY Bike Share Program (http://divvybikes.com/about) sent out a cattle call for beautiful and informative data visualizations from their actual rider and bike databases. (http://divvybikes.com/datachallenge) In my quick response, I took a look at the very basic output from the data with no reshaping or modelling. Even...
The 2014 Winter Olympic in Sochi are coming to a close. Since I haven't seen many vizzes surrounding these current games, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to create a Tableau viz about everyone's favorite statistic: the medal count. You can check out the...
This is the second in a three part series related to the four types of pills in Tableau. As mentioned previously, the four data types are discrete dimension, continuous dimension, discrete measure, and continuous measure. The first part of this series discussed the differences between...
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. All of us at InterWorks are ecstatic to announce that we’ve been working on some pretty slick new tools surrounding Tableau. Given that we’re the ultimate Tableau evangelists, it only makes sense that we’re obsessed...
As a developer who interacts with SQL Server often, the queries I write for the data I need are often slow. Take the query below as an example: This seems like a very simple query without much room for optimization. In fact, it does not take...
Most data analysis is concerned with understanding what the data tells us - for example understanding if business is growing or not and discovering how sales are developing in different territories or across product lines. But sometimes the story the data is not telling can be...
I’m writing this from my brother-in-law’s home in West Milford, NJ. It’s a welcome break from hotel rooms. This afternoon and evening I’m looking forward to giving another speech to the New York Tableau User Group. Spending the last few months speaking at Tableau User Groups...
Do I have a healthy pipeline of sales opportunities? Ensuring a healthy pipeline of opportunities is a key concern of any Sales Manager. In this post I would like to share with you a way of visualizing your pipeline that has proven highly valuable in practice....
I've had many jobs over the years, including dishwasher, radio DJ, pizza delivery guy, prison guard and IT help desk, but in my mind I've had only two careers. Today I'm a database and Tableau consultant, but that isn't where I started. Following up our "Life as...
Take control of metadata while developing a visualization by employing these CALCULATED FIELD techniques. They make a workbook self-documenting, improve ease of navigation and enable searching of calculated fields. These methods will provide structure during development as well as documentation for future desktop publishers: Apply Metadata...
However strange it may seem at the surface, converting from a higher-education music instructor to a data geek was fairly seamless. Consider this: For as many years as I was teaching, I was gathering data. Tons of data. This included student attendance, grades, rubrics, advisement,...
Recently, we shared a blog post entitled, "Life as an InterWorks Consultant: Oh, the Places You Will Go." In that post, we announced that we would be doing a follow-up series outlining the varied backgrounds which InterWorks consultants come from. Here's my story. Life in Casino Operations Shortly...
I recently upgraded my version of Tableau Desktop to 8.1. While on holiday, I decided to play with the program a bit to mess with some of the new features. In lieu of any ground-breaking analysis, I decided to have fun. I submit for you a...
In Part 3 we created all the calculated fields necessary for our basic Mekko. Because we have preset the DTC (Direction of Table Calculation) for each calculated field we can simply drag them on to the view to create the mekko and be confident that the values...
In Part 4 of the blog we learned how to make a basic Mekko Chart. In this part of the blog we are going to add in some totals, thankfully we can use some of our existing calculations to do this. The first is the...
Before we can attempt a Marimekko, we need to understand a few of Tableau's lesser used tools. The first of these is the Polygon mark type which can be selected from the dropdown on the marks card. Since the Marimekko is actually made up of lots...
In Part 1 we learned how to use custom SQL to shape our data ready for use later on in polygons. In this part we will use parameters to allow dashboard viewers to exchange dimensions. This methodology can be applied to any chart type which is sliced...
In Part 2 we simulated a Marimekko using stacked bars but since the boundary for each element / polygon of a Marimekko in Tableau is made up from 4 Cartesian Coordinates we are going to use scales of 0 – 100 % for both X and Y...
Thanks to another new and improved feature in the Tableau 8.1 release, we no longer have to spend time writing out long tedious calculations to reformat date fields! If you haven’t met the new DATEPARSE function, then let me introduce you. First, let me point out...
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