New Features in Tableau 2020.1: Dynamic Parameters and Animations
It’s a new year, so like clockwork, there’s a new release of Tableau Desktop currently in beta: version 2020.1. There are a couple of features that immediately grabbed my attention, so here’s a quick example of dynamic parameters and animations. Dynamic Parameters With dynamic parameters, you can now: Refresh a parameter’s list of values based […]
Advance with Assist: Getting Show/Hide Buttons to Appear in Tableau Desktop
Question: I have a dashboard where currently my filters are listed down the right side of my dashboard. I want to use the new Show/Hide buttons, but the menu option isn’t there. What am I missing? One of the newer features of Tableau Desktop includes container Show/Hide features that allow you to gain back space […]
Zero to Snowflake: Structured Data and Snowflake
Data can be stored in many different formats. Before we can import any data into Snowflake, it must first be stored in a supported format that Snowflake can interpret. At time of writing, the full list of supported is contained in the table below: *Note: The XML preview feature link can be accessed here An up-to-date […]
This Old Viz: Toyota Edition
I took a holiday break from vizzing for the InterWorks blog, but we’re back with our second installment of This Old Viz. This time, I went to the internet to find public information, landing on a portion of Toyota’s annual reporting. Sales and Production Version 1 Here is the original spreadsheet from the Toyota website: […]
Zero to Snowflake: Role-Based Security Access
Various people come by our house, whether it be someone delivering mail, an Amazon Prime package or from the utilities. However, there are times when people try to come by who are not wanted. It is our responsibility to ensure that we do not give someone access to our house or let someone in who […]
InterWorks Is the Blueprint: Executive Advocacy & Project Teams
The great thing about the Tableau Blueprint is that the methodology isn’t Tableau-specific. It’s a great framework for successfully envisioning and enabling any significant project within an enterprise. This post will cover some insights we’ve learned over the past 12 years of helping companies deploy Tableau successfully. InterWorks has had our own “blueprint” for helping […]
New Year’s Resolution: Tableau Tips to Go from Junior to Jedi
One of the questions that I’ve been getting a lot lately when I present on analytics is: how do you get good at Tableau? I’m going to give you as close to a blueprint as possible based on my own experiences to quickly build skills that will take you from a padawan to a power […]
Data Goals for 2020
Surprise, surprise … another year in the books. I genuinely contemplated copying and pasting the opening paragraph of last year’s blog, but here I am writing an original opening to close out the decade. Start strong, finish strong, right? And as we begin a new year, we’re taking a closer look at how we can […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – December 2019
And just like that, another decade is in the books. But don’t worry; this good thing doesn’t have to come to an end. Find all of the content we released last month in this blog roundup. While it may have been a quieter month on the blog this December, we were busy in the real […]
Zero to Snowflake: Python and Snowflake
As a Snowflake user and a Python enthusiast, I was very happy to learn that Snowflake has created its own Python package to connect to Snowflake and execute commands. As these commands are executed locally and transmitted to Snowflake, the full SnowSQL functionality is available for use. Prerequisites Before you can install the Python connector […]