There’s been a lot of coverage of wildfires in the United States this year, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, where some of the largest fires are consuming hundreds of thousands of acres. To bring some context, I scraped data from the US Forest Service’s website...
A week or two ago, we received notice from the folks over at Inc. that InterWorks would again be listed on the annual Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies. For those counting, this will be our eighth year making the cut, and we came...
Approximately 8.2 million people live within the five boroughs that make up New York City. Every year, thousands of accidents occur due to a multitude of contributing factors. NYPD collects information about each of those accidents and provides it for public use on nycopendata.socrata.com. We...
The rule that we’ll cover today is: "Limit custom SQL in live connections as they can be inefficient. Where possible, create a view on the database server to implement your custom SQL and connect Tableau to your view." In other environments and in other tools, using your...
Over the last twenty years, video games have become a cultural force in America. From movie spin-offs to t-shirts at Target, it's almost impossible not to be touched by the gaming industry every day, even if you don't consider yourself a "gamer." In this period...
Tableau Driver's Ed is a new blog series in which we explain InterWorks' unique take on Tableau Drive, a new methodology for enabling self-serve BI in the enterprise. For the full list of posts, check out the Tableau Driver's Ed channel. “Data, I think, is one of the most...
Nutanix Community Edition was released on June 8. It is a free, community-supported edition of the Nutanix platform that can be installed on most hardware. Needless to say, the techs here at InterWorks were extremely excited to test it out. We instantly started looking for...
It’s entirely possible that one must be a country music fan (Kenny Chesney, generally, and his song “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem,” specifically) to understand the reference in the title. I’ll grant that up front! But whether you are or aren’t a fan, when you...
The final topic in Filtering addresses when and when not to use user filters and how it can slow down your visualization: "Don’t be lazy with user filters. Security by user filters can impact performance on Tableau Server as the server cannot share connections and query...
.syntaxhighlighter code{font-size:0.9em!important;} The Problem During a recent engagement a client asked a question I hear occasionally regarding Tableau which basically boiled down to: "How do I show marks for the percentile ranks of my customers by Sales?" The client wanted to aggregate their measure, we're using Superstore Sales here,...
Keeping track of the growing number and types of database products is a full-time chore. This week I spent a few days in Vail, Colorado at the Pacific Crest Global Technology Forum. This is the 17th year that Pacific Crest Securities has sponsored the event—bringing...
Earlier this year, a good friend of mine, who is responsible for me working at InterWorks, wrote a blog post about his personal weight loss journey and how he uses data to enhance his training efficiency. Brian's post really made an impact internally at InterWorks. We saw someone very...
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