Alter Your Analysis: Women’s World Cup Match Wins
In this second installment of Alter Your Analysis, I am tackling Alteryx’s Weekly Challenge 169: “Using the values in the attached file womens_world_cup_data.txt, determine which team won the most matches.” A key point: We’re trying to determine the most matches won, not the most finals (go Team USA!). Breaking the Challenge into Tools Looking at […]
Test Prep: Become a Tableau Desktop Certified Professional
Do you like being challenged? Is passing the Tableau Desktop Professional Exam (CP) on your to-do list? Then this blog might be handy. I recently became a Certified Tableau Desktop Professional and want to share a few tips to help you prepare. Getting Started Your best source of information is the official Tableau guide. There, […]
How I Went from Beer Sales Developer to Analytics Consultant
When I was younger, I used to always imagine what my job would be when I grew up. A sales professional like my mom? A financial professional like my dad? Maybe start my own business one day? Maybe I could take our neighborhood lemonade stand national! Combining a Love for Communication and Technology When I […]
Advance with Assist: Swapping Sheets in Tableau 2019.2
Tableau 2019.2 is full of new features. To name a few, vector maps, parameter actions, show/hide dashboard containers and spatial calculations are now at your fingertips. The one I’m very excited for, but not seeing a lot of chatter about, is the ability to now swap sheets in a dashboard. The application of this feature […]
PYD86 – Tableau Blueprint
This week on Podcast your Data, we discuss Tableau’s new blueprint for adopting analytics across an organization. Robert Rouse will be speaking with InterWorks Solutions Lead Karl Riddett about this blueprint and how it can assist you in getting the most from your Tableau experience.
Removing Borders from Tableau Worksheets
Recently, I needed to add a text box with an embedded URL to a client’s dashboard that read “Click to See Report.” The client, who still uses Tableau Desktop 10.5, wanted users to access an external report related to the dashboard content. However, there was a thin black border wrapped around the text when I […]
Webinar Replay: 5 Common Dashboarding Mistakes and How to Fix Them
There’s no greater horror than pouring hours into a new dashboard only for your audience to get snagged on a simple mistake. We’ve all been there. But what if you could stop dashboarding faux pas before they happen? In this webinar, InterWorks Assist Lead Russ Lyman walks through the following: Five common dashboarding pitfalls Practical […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – June 2019
Last month on the blog saw a pretty diverse offering of content. We recapped some of the amazing tech conferences our team recently attended, shared some exciting recognitions InterWorks has received lately and threw the spotlight on some great aspects of our company culture. We’ve got everything from podcasts and Tableau tips to Alteryx resources. […]
A Retrospective: Data in the Clouds, Melbourne
What better place to talk about Snowflake than 89 floors above the hipster laneways of Melbourne amongst the clouds? Following our successful Brewalytics event in Perth, Western Australia, the InterWorks ANZ team continued our data journey in Melbourne. Once again, we were lucky enough to partner with Snowflake and Tableau to deliver Data in the […]
Driving Set Actions with a Fake Filter in Tableau
Question: How do I get a filter to also drive a set action in Tableau? Short answer: You can’t. Slightly longer answer: You can if you fake it. Longest answer: Read the blog below! I got this question from my coworker on our EU team, Stefanie, who was looking to set up a multiselect filter […]
