Advance with Assist: Mass Parameter Replacement
Question: In my workbook, I’ve created my own problem. I have three parameters that are identical. I’d like to only need to update one, so is there a way to swap these without having to go to every calculation I’ve created with them? This scenario happens on occasion with self-service analytics. You create a new […]
Advance with Assist: Function Compatibility
Question: I’m trying to remove the decimal from my report, but I’m getting unexpected results. With FLOOR or ROUND on my calculation, I still have a decimal. How can I remove it without formatting in the format menu all the time? Questions like this happen to all of us. You expect a certain result, but […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – November 2018
November is known as a month of giving thanks, and we are certainly grateful for the solid content published on the blog this last month! With 26 posts and over 20 contributors, we’ve got a lot to be thankful for, including some great pieces that unpacked Tableau Conference 2018 and a post on our recognition […]
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 […]