Full Moon Rising: Alteryx to the Rescue
It all started when I wanted to make a dashboard on the correlation between the brightness of the moon and crime activity. It’s one of those things everyone has heard in their life whenever crime or hospitalizations spike (or at least I have): “It must be a full moon.” Being an IT nerd at heart, […]
Recap of Mainland Team Day in Nuremberg
My question to you: When you have the best colleagues who are smart and nerdy, what could be better than spending some time together puzzling out a relevant and useful data solution? To me, there is nothing! Above: The InterWorks Mainland team At the beginning of October, we had another InterWorks Europe team event and, […]
Creating Automation Scenarios in Dataiku
The wheel. The lightbulb. The internet. Dataiku. All revolutionary creations that disrupted life itself. Okay, well, maybe Dataiku won’t disrupt life itself. It will, however, continue to push the data industry in a great direction. So, what is Dataiku? It’s a company that develops collaborative data science software called the Data Science Studio (DSS). DSS […]
WEBINAR: Analytics for Compliance, Monitoring and Audit
How to get ahead of non-compliance Finance teams typically chase down non-compliant activity after the fact in an attempt to minimise the damage. However, with a modern analytics platform like Tableau it’s quick and easy to detect potential violations in real-time by visually analysing your own data. In today’s data-driven world, organisations are using modern […]
How InterWorks’ IT Service Model Is Different
Most IT service providers have a set menu of offerings you can choose from. They define exactly how their technology will be delivered, and they don’t make exceptions. That makes sense for them, but it doesn’t really take the needs of the customer into account. The customers’ needs are usually tied to broader goals, and […]
Map Out the College Search with Tableau
I went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for my undergraduate degree, and it was one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve ever had. However, it’s surprising to me that I ended up in North Carolina, having grown up in New Jersey. When it came time for college, I really had no […]
Level Up Your Analytics with Dataiku on Windows
Sometimes you find a tool that blows you away with its capabilities and get eager to utilize it in your day-to-day work with data. Dataiku was one of those for me. It doesn’t run on Windows natively, but the process to install the virtual system so that I can use Dataiku on Windows was painless. […]
PYD70 – Debating Dashboard Design
You want your hard work to get noticed, right? When it comes to designing visualizations and dashboards, getting your work noticed and making it useful have typically come with some sort of sacrifices on both sides. In this week’s show, Robert, Mike and Ben discuss just this topic: the philosophy behind designing dashboards for fun […]
Advance with Assist: Changing Default Properties on Data
The question is: We receive CSV files from our data provider which we pull into Prep. We then unionize them and output a Tableau online server file. Why can’t we edit the default properties? If you are familiar with this menu, it normally looks like this: Many times when connecting to new data sources in […]
The Spatial Join: New Horizons in Mapping Tools
Hey, party people! Guess what time it is? It’s Mappy Hour! via GIPHY Tableau has been cranking out new mapping features left and right, but few have had me as excited as the spatial join with the release of Tableau 2018.2. This is the mapping tool I’ve been hoping to see in Tableau for a long […]