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. […]
Portals for Tableau 101: AWS CloudFormation
You’ve been tasked with installing Portals for Tableau, and your IT prefers using AWS CloudFormations. The bad news is that this is all new to you, so you’re not sure how to proceed. The good news is that InterWorks has a CloudFormation template you can use. Here are steps you can take to set up […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Slideshows
Who has two thumbs and loves Slideshows in Portals for Tableau? You, after reading this blog post! I apologize to those reading that don’t have two thumbs—you can love Slideshows, too. This post will go through the whole process of creating a slideshow that can be displayed on monitors in your conference room or used […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Data Manager Calculated Fields
Do you ever feel like your computer should do more of the heavy lifting? You had to pay good money for it, and it eats a lot of your electricity. Why should you have to work harder than you need to instead of making that freeloading box of wires and lights make your life easier? […]
Why Data in One Place Matters: Data Warehousing with Fivetran
Image above courtesy of Fivetran Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about Snowflake, a cloud data warehouse that brings joy to the world of analytics. While I’ve spent a good amount of time outlining the benefits of the way Snowflake approaches data warehousing, I recently had the idea of discussing why businesses benefit from using […]
How I Went from High School English Teacher to Content Coordinator
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.” Albus Dumbledore via J.K. Rowling I have been a lover of language and wielder of words (and advocate of alliteration … oof) my entire life. When I went to college, I decided to double major […]
Advance with Assist: Extracting Year from De-identified Text String
Question: I have some de-identified data where the date is buried in different starting points within a text string. In Tableau, is there a way to find the year of participation without asking for help from my data engineers? Here’s an example of the string I’m talking about. Any help is appreciated! The good news […]
Questions from Tableau Training: Isolating Rank with Parameters and Calculations
“I have sales information about all 50 states, but I only want to see a single state and how it ranks. Sounds like a table calculation, but there’s a catch. Table calculations in Tableau only compute the calculation on data that is in your view. If I filter so I’m only looking at the state […]