InterWorks Blog Roundup – September 2018
September is known for school starting and new beginnings, and we have plenty of new blog material to keep you busy! Whether it’s conference recaps, the usual Tableau vizzes and tips, high-level business intelligence philosophy or one of our podcasts, there’s a little something for everyone. Get your learn on! News, Events and Culture InterWorks Blog […]
How to Calculate XIRR in Tableau with Python
Me: “I’ll take Python for $200, Trebek.” Trebek: “The time it takes for you to create a hand-coded XIRR calculation in Python for use in Tableau’s TabPy?” Me: “What is ‘a long time’?” Trebek: “Correct!” That’s right—you can now calculate XIRR in Tableau! But it’s not going to be easy, so buckle up. First, let’s […]
Creating a Narrative for Your Data with Wordsmith and Tableau
Are you as excited as I am for Tableau Extensions? Probably not. I’m pretty excited. I already wrote a blog post about it. Unfortunately, Tableau Public doesn’t support them yet (at the time I wrote this post) and you need Tableau Server 2018.2+ to host them, which many haven’t adopted (at the time I wrote […]
Questions from Tableau Training: Conditional Coloring on Sparklines
In the Tableau Desktop III: Advanced course, we teach you how to build sparklines, with the added bonus of using a dual axis to create a circle for the last sales value. This circle highlights that final point on the line, making it slightly easier to see. One of my participants wanted to take things […]
Debriefing My Trip to Dataiku HQ
Recently, David Siegel, Rachel Kurtz and I spent the day with the team over at Dataiku HQ in New York to learn about the platform and celebrate the release of the new DSS 5.0. It was a very productive and enlightening day—I learned a ton about the power and various capabilities of the platform. Collaboration My […]
Introducing InterWorks Assist Now: Live Support for Your Data Needs
The Evolution of InterWorks Assist InterWorks Assist was launched back in 2016 for clients who needed quick, personal attention to their requests via email. As the offering continued to grow, we thought about how we could make it even easier for clients to access our experts. Introducing Assist Now – the live chat tool that […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Public Pages and Dashboards
How to Create Public Pages The most commonly used feature of our portal is one that is easily overlooked: it is the ability to protect content behind a login. However, sometimes you have content that should be public. Maybe you’ve got a “Contact Us” page, information on how to get access to the portal, or […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Inline Commenting on Dashboards
Are you so accustomed to sharing your insightful opinions on the day’s biggest headlines via Facebook comments that it just irks you not to be able to with your company’s Tableau dashboard? Well, the days of being unheard are over because Portals for Tableau supports inline commenting! This post will cover how to set this […]
Stuck on a Tableau Chart? Try Drawing It First!
For this week’s #MakeoverMonday project, I wanted to build a divergent stacked bar chart. I used to create these charts every so often in my last job, but I did it by opening up an old Tableau workbook and mindlessly copying the calculations and setup of the worksheet without really understanding what was going on. […]
Advance with Assist: Using Custom Backgrounds with Polygon Shapefiles
You have a shapefile. You have a custom background. They belong together. Now it’s just a matter of figuring out how to make it work in Tableau … This is a common challenge we get in both Tableau training and through InterWorks Assist. The best way to illustrate how this holy union is to naturally […]