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DATART – Using Tableau & Superstore to Create Digital Art
As a data analyst, it’s fitting that I love data. The information we can gather, allowing us to learn more about our world, understand complex issues and solve perplexing problems, is absolutely spectacular. With Tableau, we can accomplish these feats with greater speed, precision, and...
InterWorks EU to Join Tableau at CeBIT 2014
InterWorks EU is returning to the world’s largest IT exposition, CeBIT. InterWorks EU joins data visualization giant, Tableau Software to demonstrate the power of cutting-edge visual analysis in Tableau. Both InterWorks and Tableau will be at the ready to provide demos and answer any questions...
How I Went from Architecture to Business Intelligence Analyst
The role of Business Intelligence Consultant / Analyst is a very new field, and as such, it is composed of transplants from other industries. None of us were born with the mindset, "when I grow up I want to be a data analyst!" Most of...
Questions from Tableau Training: Labeling with Table Calculations
Continuing with the ‘Questions from Tableau Training’ series, I was asked a labeling question with regards to a time series chart. The question was: “How you can get multiple labels combined into one tooltip?” The example that we were working on was a time series chart for...
Handling Trend-less Trend Lines with Tableau
If you’re reading this post, you already know that the trend line is the gold standard when it comes to viewing data over time. However, the visual impact of a trend line plummets if the data are too thin. The images below highlight a common...
InterWorks’ Dan Murray Presents to Portland TUG at Nike Headquarters
InterWorks' Director of Business Intelligence, Dan Murray recently went to Nike World Headquarters to speak to the Portland Tableau User Group. Our friends at Nike recorded Murray's presentation and said some nice things about InterWorks and Murray. Portland was one of many stops along the...
InterWorks Partners Tableau Software, Alteryx Rank High in Gartner’s 2014 ‘Magic Quadrant for BI & Analytics Platforms’
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...
Visualizing Public Transportation Data from DIVVY in Chicago with Tableau 8.1
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...
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Medal Count Visualized via Tableau
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...
Group Manager: Missing Required Permissions Manifest Attribute in Main Jar
If you've updated to the latest version of Java 7, update 51, you may be having trouble with some sites running Java. Specifically, you may be having issues with Group Manager for EqualLogic. If you try to browse to the group IP, you are greeted...
Tableau Pills: Continuous and Discrete Data Roles
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...
