InterWorks Receives a Cloud Partner of the Year Award from Ingram Micro for 2018
Recently, Ingram Micro held its annual Cloud Summit, a multi-day conference that brings together not only some of the brightest technology resellers and partners but also some of the biggest, like Microsoft and Amazon. As part of the Summit, Ingram hands out awards to some of their most outstanding partners to honor achievements from the […]
Building Signal-Based Models with Cross-Validation
One challenge in building analytical models involves separating signal from noise. Signal describes the patterns we consider “real” in the sense that we believe they reflect a true relationship between the factors we’re analyzing. For instance, if our data indicates that a person’s height is related to her weight, we’d probably consider that signal. Noise, […]
PYD79 – Tell Me I’m Wrong
Join Ben Bausili, Katie Wagner and Michael Treadwell on this episode of PYD. Together, they tackle some hot topics within the data community, including the 2019.2 Tableau Beta. On this episode, we also premiere a new PYD segment called “Tell Me I’m Wrong.”
P-Values and the Reductio Ad Unlikely
Relying on p-values to reach business decisions is common, which is reason for concern. Conducting analysis that’s too heavily based on p-values and engages in an unfettered quest for statistical significance can lead to decisions that are fundamentally unsound. To understand why, we’re going to go all the way back to Ancient Greece. Reductio Ad […]
Cloud-Based Data Collection with Airtable
Welcome, diligent readers of the InterWorks blog. Today, I am kicking off a great two-part blog. Internally, we have been tossing around conversation about a really unique tool called Airtable. Overview Airtable is a cloud-based spreadsheet-database-formbuilder piece of technology that offers a very unique approach to the way people collect data. In the first part […]
Quantified 102: Data Collection
On this episode of Quantified, host Garrett Sauls welcomes back InterWorks analytics consultant and training lead Katie Wagner to discuss data collection. Katie shares some manual and automated processes for acquiring data, responsibilities and ethics that inherently come with data collection, and important questions we can ask to enhance data accuracy. Join us for our […]
Unpacking the Built-in Scripts of Tableau Server
By now, most of us have utilized the tableau-server-obliterate.cmd script that comes with version 2018.2 and beyond (if you haven’t, you are about to find out what that is). But what do the rest of those built-in scripts do!? These are, by default, located under the C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\Packages\Scripts <version>\ folder. If you navigate via […]
Going the Distance in Tableau: Becoming Fully Dynamic with Table Calculations
Let me start off here by laying out the pros and cons of using table calculations when it comes to measuring distance. Pros: Table calcs do all of the work instead of us having to type out every latitude and longitude coordinate in a calculated field. Cons: Table calculations depend on the structure of the […]
Advance with Assist: Tableau and Named Ranges in Excel
Question: I want to only connect to certain rows in my Excel file, but I’m not seeing how to do that from Tableau. Is there a way to do this? Tableau connects to Excel as if it were a database. By default, it will connect and divide the data up into dimensions and measures based […]
InterWorks Trains the Next Generation of Data Analysts
As alumni of Maastricht University, we love to go back and contribute to the learning path of students. Therefore, Raphael and I were excited to be invited to contribute at the Career and Development Days held on Wednesday, March 13. A Crash Course in Tableau Basics Two groups of 30 students from all over world […]
