Webinar Recap: A Better Way to Migrate Tableau Workbooks
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. I’ve worked with Charlie Sanders for several years now, and I recently got the chance to catch up with him on this lunchtime webinar. Charlie is a principal consultant here at InterWorks, and he also leads our practice in the central region. We’ve teamed […]
PYD73 – Henry Zhu
A little change of pace this show. Today, Robert talks with Henry Zhu, one of the core maintainers of Babel, about open source and what it means for people and software, community and development. They even talk about some real-time visualizations with Pokemon and the Super Bowl.
How to Build a Persistent Staging Area in Snowflake Using Matillion
There are things in this world that data engineers love and hate. For example, they love green and hate red. Green is good, but when you see red, the ETL job is dead! Data engineers also love seeing the word “success” because it subconsciously triggers flashbacks of successful jobs. No errors. Data objects populated as […]
WEBINAR: The Better Way to Migrate Tableau Workbooks on Server
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. Migrating Tableau workbooks and data sources from one server environment to another can be a complicated task that requires significant time and expertise. The good news is that is doesn’t have to be this way anymore. In this webinar, InterWorks Product Manager Zion Spencer […]
A Deep Dive into Tableau’s Format Pane
If you have ever been in one of my Tableau training courses, you have probably heard me refer to Tableau’s format pane as “the Bermuda Triangle of Tableau” because it can be easy to get lost. What is great about the format pane is that it offers a plethora of options relating to how our […]
Advance with Assist: What You Need to Know About Aliases
Question: I know I’m doing something wrong. When building views, my alias in one view overwrites my alias in another. I know I’m missing something here. Can you fill in what I’m missing? When building reports, sometimes you need a different header name. Right-clicking the header will sometimes reveal a menu option for Edit Alias: […]
Tableau Prep Takes the Pain out of Data Preparation
Before we look at data preparation using Excel and Tableau Prep, we need to ask a question. It’s always a healthy discipline to ask questions first and use technology to answer them second. Take a look at the question, look away from the screen then take one minute to jot down your responses. Try and […]
PYD72 – TC18 Recap with Katie Wagner
This week’s podcast takes it back to Tableau Conference 2018. InterWorks analytics practice lead Ben Bausili interviews Katie Wagner, a lead Tableau trainer, about the week in her beloved home state of Louisiana. She unpacks her TC18 experience, including Brain Dates with data experts, some of her favorite sessions, like Fanalytics, and shares her excitement […]
Advance with Assist: Marking the Latest Date on Trend Line
Question: I’ve been making updates to our Tableau visualizations, and I can’t seem to figure out how to create a mark on the latest date. I also would like to know whether that mark is more or less than the previous date. Is this possible? If so, can you explain how to do it? This […]
Makeover Monday: Most Expensive Housing Markets
This week’s Makeover Monday project focused on how expensive it is to own a home in major cities across the United States. The original article presented the data as the number of hours of work it takes to pay the median monthly mortgage payment. You can read more about the methodology in the original article. […]