Tableau 2020.3: Best New Features for Dashboarding
Tableau 2020.3 has recently been released with several exciting new features that have been recapped by my colleague Robin Schouten. Two other features I wanted to focus on will be useful to anyone who builds Tableau dashboards on a regular basis. They might not be the most powerful features in the new release, but they […]
2020 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
While 2020 has hardly been the year anyone could have predicted, sports, uh … finds a way. The NFL is the first major sports league to have a full, normal-ish, season planned and while the pre-season was cancelled, the regular season kicks off September 10th with the Texans at the Chiefs. Reassessing What Matters Most […]
Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Multiple Vizzes
For this tooltip, we have brought multiple worksheets together to give some additional information and improved formatting in our tooltip. The two bar charts are built as normal, and I’ve built two extra sheets for the vertical and horizontal lines in my tooltip: For the vertical separator, I’ve added a dummy calculation to Columns to […]
Webinar Replay – One Hour Tableau Dashboard Challenge
One Hour Tableau Dashboard Challenge: If you learn best by observing others work while talking through their process, this dashboarding webinar is for you! Our team will give a look at how an InterWorks consultant approaches developing a Tableau dashboard from beginning to end. Along the way, you will see some tricks employed to speed […]
Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Data Applications
Snowflake’s cloud-first architecture has unlocked access to data in a way that was previously impossible. For the first time in history, data is accessible, affordable and fast. As users began to receive tangible value from their data-warehousing efforts, it quickly became clear that this data is not just something to be used for metrics and […]
Zero to Snowflake: API Access Using External Functions and AWS Lambda
Welcome back to our mini-series on Snowflake External Functions with AWS Lambda. Before we proceed, please read the previous post on how to set up these functions and how Snowflake interacts with AWS Lambda. API Knowledge Disclaimer If you are unfamiliar with APIs and how they work, don’t worry. This post will not explain APIs, […]
Hands-On Alteryx: An Intro to Regular Expressions for Text Analytics
A regular expression, also commonly known as RegEx (pronounced as /reh-JEKS/), is a powerful text-processing framework that uses a sequence of characters to define a search pattern. It is a widely used method to identify if a pattern exists in a chunk of text, and it helps you extract that information if you need it. […]
Portals for Tableau Is Now Curator by InterWorks
We’re thrilled to share a bit of exciting news: Portals for Tableau, our branded analytics platform, has been officially rebranded as Curator by InterWorks! For those unfamiliar with the platform, Curator lets you create beautiful websites and seamlessly integrate your analytics into one platform for a better data experience. The next logical question is: “Why […]
Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Data Lake
Data lake is one of the terms in our field that has changed a lot over the years. When I think about data lake as a workload that organizations run, my first thought goes back to the Hadoop days. Hadoop promised that processing true big data in its raw form was possible and optimal for […]
Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Highlighting a Data Point
In this post, we’ll be looking at how we can use a tooltip and worksheet actions to highlight, rather than filter, a data point in our target viz. Here, the primary viz shows the sales by Sub-Category, and the tooltip shows where that Sub-Category sits in a bar chart of profit: First, we build the […]