A Recap of Data Council Conference 2019
Have you ever noticed that when you complete a trip with Uber, your account is updated immediately? I often interact with apps on my phone only to be left confused by how they can stream my data between their source systems and my phone so seamlessly. Interacting with Uber as a consumer showcases the extraordinary […]
Fall of the Queensland Koala Data Viz
A diverse abundance of wildlife is as quintessentially Australian as Crocodile Dundee’s giant knife or Men at Work telling you to run for cover. During my recent move Down Under from New York, my mother catalogued all the snakes, spiders, sharks and crocodiles that kill for sport, but that isn’t what I mean. Though she’s […]
Understanding Tableau Prep and Conductor: Clean and Join Steps
The last post in this series showed you how to use the Wildcard union and the Manual union to join four years of sales data that was stored in four different worksheets. In this post, you’ll see how the cleaning step can be used to do the following: Change field-data roles Group and replace members […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Containerizing Your Portal
While it isn’t our recommended approach, Portals for Tableau can be hosted in a container environment, such as Docker. There be dragons with this process, so consider this your dragon-slaying guide. Persistent Database and Filesystem Portals for Tableau uses a small database to house your portal’s configuration. This database and its data need to persist […]
Understanding Tableau Prep and Conductor: Connecting to a Data Source with Builder
Before you begin building a workflow using Tableau Prep, it’s helpful to know a little bit about the data source(s) you need to connect to. Consider the following: What kind of source are you connecting to? How large are the files? Record counts? Rows/columns? Are you familiar with the data structures? Do you know of […]
Human-Centered Design
As designers and analysts, we often overlook qualitative data in favor of easily measured metrics. We focus on things things like money spent, products sold, click-through rates and logins because numbers are easy, and dashboards are sexy. But if our goal is to produce products or programs that impact lives, we might be focusing on […]
PYD82 – Ask Data
What’s better—asking someone else about your data or asking the data itself? Why not both? In this episode of Podcast Your Data, InterWorks analytics consultant Katie Bridges welcomes Ruhaab Markas from Tableau to discuss the new software feature, Ask Data. Listen in as Ruhaab shares how to begin this data dialogue.
Understanding Tableau Prep and Conductor: An Overview
Tableau Prep Builder and Conductor are Tableau’s tools for enabling repeatable, documented and scheduled workflows to transform raw data into user-friendly datasets. Tableau Prep Builder’s first live release came in April 2018 in Desktop 2018.1, and since then, we’ve had four major releases and eight minor updates. Over the past year, Tableau has expanded the […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Creating a Homepage Insert
You might look at Portals for Tableau and think, “Wow! These people must be geniuses with how many great features they keep coming up with!” (I wouldn’t say we’re all geniuses, but I also won’t stop you from saying that). In actuality, we get a lot of great ideas from our users! This is common […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – April 2019
Spring is in the air here in the US, and our April showers brought with them tons of data and IT insights from our awesome team. Last month, we released 30 new pieces of content and featured even more individual contributors! Among the many Easter eggs found on the blog, some of those that we’re […]