The next item in our Filtering checklist is: "Avoid quick filters or actions that drive context filters. These require reloading the context table and should be avoided wherever possible." There’s a lot to digest there, so let’s get started. What Is a Context Filter? The filters that you add...
A powerful feature within Alteryx is the Download tool under the Connectors tab. It’s useful for pulling information down from the web. As the amount of data available on the web grows, the value of being able to pull information into a workable format in...
When creating a data visualizations using U.S. weather data, I’m running into a problem. I have weather data in a dense grid from NOAA, but no way to filter individual states. Some data sources show the contiguous U.S. while others are sections of satellite coverage....
The next item in our Filtering checklist is: "Avoid high-cardinality quick filters (multi-select or drop-down lists). High-cardinality quick filters are slow to load and render." Let’s jump right in and see how high cardinality in your quick filters can negatively impact performance. What is Cardinality? In SQL, the cardinality...
InterWorks recently sponsored several employees on OK Freewheel, a statewide cycling tour of Oklahoma. In this post, Scott Matlock recounts his experience riding OK Freewheel's inaugural gravel route midway through the tour. Above: Team InterWorks at the Texas/Oklahoma Border. We decided to ride our bikes across the...
During a VDI deployment with VMware Horizon, I discovered that one of the applications in the environment was saving important user information inside the ProgramData folder. Even though the end-user was utilizing persistent disks, the ProgramData folder by default gets saved on the C-drive and...
The recent floods in Texas and Oklahoma hit home for me. I live outside of Dallas and InterWorks has three offices in Oklahoma. We’ve seen double our normal rainfall this year, leading to major floods impacting metropolitan areas. People have lost homes and family members. All...
One of my biggest fears when going on a long bike ride is running out of fuel and bonking (a.k.a hitting a wall). It’s a horrible feeling. Your legs feel like jelly, and it seems as if one more rotation of the pedals is impossible....
Every day, we are flooded with data visualizations. Whether it’s a bar chart in a newspaper, an infographic you see online or a pie chart you see in a quarterly earnings report, people are turning numbers into pictures all around us. For those of us...
Speed counts, people! Today’s report consumers expect their dashboards to run as fast as a web page. Now that high speed internet is the standard in business, that’s a lot to compete with. This is why it is essential to optimize each and every dashboard...
Every once in a while, new technologies come along that alter your thinking. In 1982, the spreadsheet radically changed how everyone created budgets. In 2007, Tableau Software changed the way I looked at data. For the first time, the hardware had enough power to analyze large...
In some of my recent posts, I’ve talked (and visualized) about some of the reasons why I love the Tableau community. My first post about the topic was a “thank you” to the Tableau community in general while my second post analyzed community member stats. Continuing...
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