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 […]
Tableau 2020.3 New Feature Highlights

Since Tableau released 2020.3 on the 11th of August, it is high time to highlight some of the new or improved features. In this blog, I’ll highlight the following: Improvements to the New Data Model Improvements to set controls, both introduced in 2020.2 The IN operator Predictive modeling New Data Model – Join Calculations Tableau […]
PYD105 – Community Building: Tableau User Group Discussion

This week’s show is all about Tableau User Groups! Join our host, Ben Bausili, as he speaks with TUG leaders from across the globe. We hear from seasoned TUG leaders like Dan Murray who shares about his European TUG adventures and Eugenia Kis who speaks about the effectiveness of strong user group communities. We also […]