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 […]
Webinar Replay: Powerful Integrations: Tableau, Snowflake, Alteryx and Matillion
What technologies can you pair to enhance the data experience? How can the right blend of tech help you do your job faster and more easily? In this webinar, we hear from Global Database Administrator & BI Analyst at TenCate, Scott Perry, alongside InterWorks’ Dan Murray as they discuss use cases for Tableau, Snowflake, Alteryx and […]
Create a Stacked Impact Super Chart in Tableau
Every now and then, you want to customise your viz in Tableau just a little bit outside of the standard functionalities, without spending more time on customising the viz than building it initially. I recently came across a chart I had never seen before, but it looked good for the data it was used for. […]
Webinar Replay: Analytics for Education
Educational organisations face several challenges when it comes to analytics, including streamlining a variety of data systems, the need to create very user-friendly dashboards, and the necessity of having flexible tools that allow for customizing reports that meet stakeholders’ needs. Such challenges aren’t unique to education, but there are variables and nuances surrounding them that […]
