Webinar Replay: Realize Your IT Vision with Blue Medora and VMware
Download the webinar and see how Blue Medora is your perfect complement to the vRealize Suite. The experts from Blue Medora will demonstrate how building a cohesive monitoring strategy using vRealize Operations and the True Visibility Suite can translate to faster troubleshooting and remediation. Learn how to monitor the virtual layer and all of the […]
PYD88 – Snowflake Summit, San Francisco
This week’s episode of Podcast Your Data throws it back to the inaugural Snowflake Summit that occurred last month. Snowflake pulled out all the stops when hosting its first-ever conference and created the most unique and unforgettable experience for attendees. Listen in as Karl Young, Bill Barnes and InterWorks Data Practice Lead Brian Bickell discuss […]
Dashboard Confessions: Wrestling with Impostor Syndrome
One of my first publicly available dashboards is embarrassingly rough. Just two charts (one’s a pie; thank goodness it only has three slices), gaping whitespace, completely emotionless. Like a decent dashboard, it begs more questions, but some of them could actually be answered in that sea of space. Not that every inch of a dashboard […]
Webinar Replay: Zero to Cloud Analytics
Hear from Snowflake, InterWorks and Tableau in this webinar led by InterWorks’ Principal and Data Practice Lead, Brian Bickell. Webinar Takeaways How modern cloud analytics technologies are changing the data landscape How to easily load, integrate and query structured and semi-structured data What it’s like to run large queries in a fraction of the time […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Multi-Tenant Architecture
Several of our clients utilize their portal to show dashboards to numerous clients of theirs in a multi-tenant architecture. Unlike traditional apartment buildings, these tenants shouldn’t really know the others exist. They shouldn’t hear anyone stomping around like an elephant on their ceiling in the middle of the night, nor should they have to make […]
The InterWorks Approach to Great Consulting: Part 1
I have had the opportunity of being part of InterWorks for over 15 years, and one of the top reasons that I continue to love my work is that I get to be surrounded by a lot of great consultants. I have watched many of my colleagues receive a sincere thank you for a job […]
Improving the Sheet-Swapping UX with Parameter Actions in Tableau: Part 2
In my last post, I showed you how to replace a traditional drop-down menu with icons to swap sheets using parameter actions. In this post, we’ll take this a step further and refine how the icons look when they’re selected, removing the black border and adding a blue sidebar. Essentially, we’re taking the chart options […]
What We’ve Learned About Developing Dashboards
The world of tech is always changing and evolving, and to be successful in the industry, professionals must continue to learn, grow and develop their skills and approaches to the challenges they face. With so many different design elements and data variables in the work of communicating data, the possibilities for visualization are nearly limitless, […]
Our Culture: Observations from an InterWorks Kid
At InterWorks, we value our team members’ families, and kids are often seen around our local offices. Our headquarters even has a Kids Club office! So many of us remember going to work with our parents as children—how grown up we felt being there, how special we felt when the adults spoke to us, how […]
Three Tips to Improve Tableau Dashboard Design
Data drives everything, and it’s invaluable when it comes to making effective and informed decisions in your work. The way that data is communicated is crucial, and the functionality and design of a dashboard can either reinforce the data story you’re telling or undermine and complicate it. In this video, InterWorks Experience Consultant David Duncan […]