Visualizing Geographic Data with Set Actions in Tableau
Note: This blog post builds on a previous post and was created in collaboration with analytics consultant Dave Sirey. Set actions are opening up a new world of possibilities in Tableau. Recently, we tried tackling one of the common struggles in Tableau: visualizing geographic data with Alaska and Hawaii. Not only that, but we needed […]
PYD77 – Gartner and Tableau
It’s that magical time again! No, we’re not off to Hogwarts just yet. It’s Gartner’s report on business intelligence tools! Regular host Robert Rouse is joined by Russ Lyman and David Pires to discuss the results of the recently released report, Tableau’s place among the competition and some areas of opportunity they see with the […]
Webinar Replay: Tableau Performance Checklist
Do you ever feel like Tableau Server is crawling rather than running? Do your workbooks seem to be on the sluggish side? There are all kinds of factors that can affect performance. InterWorks analytics consultant and Training Lead Katie Wagner will show you a few ways to help keep your workbooks humming along. Katie discusses […]
Digital Nomad: A Glimpse into the InterWorks Culture
Since I’ve joined InterWorks, I have never suffered from boredom. If I should choose one word that describes my work the best, it would be excitement. Passion, natural curiosity and eagerness to create the best available solution is evident in everything we do. Working with the Best Clients Our clients truly are what makes our […]
Automatically Publish Multi-Lingual Workbooks in Tableau Server
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. As more and more companies expand across the oceans, it becomes more of a necessity to embrace other languages and expand the consumer base of your data visualizations. This walkthrough will create an easy way to take a single workbook that needs to be […]
Analytics Explained: Modeling Our World
Models are amazing. Built upon the understanding we gained in type 2 analytics, models provide an amazing tool that we can pass to others. No longer is the understanding locked up in our minds, but it becomes a concrete reality we can use to further test and refine our understanding. Not only that, but models […]
Viz for Social Good: Girls+Data
According to research from Dear Tech People, based on data from 100 tech companies, while women make up 50% of the American population, they only make up about 37% of the tech sector*. Separately, a study by Microsoft reports that girls’ interest in STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering and math—peaks in early middle school but begins […]
Advance with Assist: Automating Tableau Workbook Download with TabCmd
Question: I’m only seeing export options for PDF, CSV or PNG. I’m needing a way to export a workbook to a share drive for access by our Creators. Is there an automated way to do this? I’m tired of downloading to my machine only to upload to the share drive and delete. I hope I’m […]
A Consultant’s Case for Wordsmith, Now and Later
The world of data has been exploding, and the process of capturing and analyzing data to drive business decisions is now the norm. This explosion has brought with it a rapid pace of innovation. Tableau Software is a giant in the visual-analytics space, Snowflake is on a rise in the data-warehousing business, and Amazon is […]
Digital Nomad: A Year in the Life
In the musical Rent, the song “Seasons of Love” asks us how we measure a year: in daylights, in sunsets, in cups of coffee, in inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife? Now, I’m certain with enough patience and energy, we could track all of this by doing some more rigorous quantified-self work. Unfortunately, I […]