Navigating Bias in the Data Visualization Process
Politics are … tricky. I firmly believe that data has its place in every part of the world. However, I also know that data can be biased, especially in its presentation. So, when designing for data, how does one navigate these biases? I’m not sure anyone has the right answer, but I wanted to share […]
Advance with Assist: Tableau Server – Interactive MicroService Container Degraded
Question: After restarting our Tableau Services due to the gateway going down, the system came back up. However, we now see that the Interactive Microservice Container is degraded. Restarts aren’t fixing the issue. Anything else we can try? In this post, we’ll talk through the troubleshooting process we went through and how we got the […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2020
Order up! We have another month’s worth of hot and fresh data resources ready for you. In this blog roundup, we feature a new Snowflake blog series, a summertime playlist, more webinar recordings than ever and our tried-and-true Tableau tips. With 23 published posts and 30 contributors, we think you’ll be able to find something […]
Tableau for Good: A Social Distancing Floor Plan for Restaurants
The Drawing Tool has been incorporated into CBI Studio by InterWorks. Explore CBI Studio to see what’s new. As a result of the widespread measures taken by various governments around the world to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a lot of business industries have been adversely impacted by these initiatives—none more so than the restaurant […]
Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Data Science
When you think of data science (for the purposes of this blog, this will encompass all machine learning and AI activities), you may think of specific aspects. I would make a wager that most people think specifically about model building. The Data Science Process Data science is more than just building an accurate model. More […]
Advance with Assist: Missing Joins in Tableau 2020.2
Question: We just upgraded to 2020.2 and when I view the data source screen, I no longer see my joins that were in my data source before. Where’d they go? Do I have to rebuild? With the release of 2020.2, Tableau has unveiled many new features, but the largest component of the new release is […]
Geocoding in Tableau Prep with Mapbox
Geocoding addresses in a scalable and sustainable way has always been surprisingly difficult in the BI world, let alone in Tableau. You either need expensive datasets/services, overkill GIS tools, or you must rely on very legally dubious usage of seemingly free (but not really free) geocoding services like GoogleMaps. BI tools like Tableau have always […]
Using Python with Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep has improved considerably since it was launched. It offers a lot of tools to pre-process and transform your data. But sometimes, you need to apply a function that has no equivalent in Prep, want to extract some data using an API interface or even apply some machine learning or natural language processing algorithms. […]
Webinar Replay: Modern User Experience Design in Tableau
Want your dashboards to feel more like the apps and websites you use every day? Join us as we explore how you can improve the user experience by leveraging the features and functionalities of Tableau in new ways. In this webinar, a Tableau expert will guide you through: Two quick tips for improving UI design […]
Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Modern Data Warehouse
Snowflake has long been the Cloud Data Warehouse. The organization has completely changed the game with unique architecture purpose-built for the cloud: allowing scalable storage and compute for data warehousing projects, all within a SQL-compliant database. The benefits of Snowflake’s modern architecture were obvious, and over the past few years, we have been hands-on in the […]