Using Python to Add External Data to Your Reporting Environment
Python is quickly becoming the first programming language exposed to non-tech folks. While working on my data pipeline, I found a perfect example of how you can use Python to bring external data into your reporting environment – especially when the host of this data doesn’t have an out-of-the-box database connector. Above: What I think […]
PYD66 – Sports and Data with George Chahrouri of Pro Football Focus
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!? It’s officially football season, meaning armchair quarterbacks, pick six packs, and, of course, fantasy football! George Chahrouri of Pro Football Focus joins our panel of sports nuts led by Chris Sanders to talk about collecting data on every player on every play in every game, analyzing that data, and […]
Disney Data & Analytics Conference 2018: Sharing the Magic
We have a few (super) fans of Disney here at InterWorks, including me, so it was natural for us to be curious about what was going on at the Disney Data and Analytics Conference this year. A small InterWorks team took on the hard task of infiltrating the happiest place on earth and finding out […]
Advance with Assist: Parameter Performance Optimization
Question: “I added a calculation that uses a parameter input and my dashboard is a lot slower now. How can I make it faster?” Example Calculation Some common reasons to include user-selected values (parameters) inside of calculations are: Change the measure displayed Set a date for comparison to current values Find points within a certain […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – August 2018
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. The InterWorks blog record books have been broken. With a whopping 46 blog posts and 32 contributors, it’s safe to say our crew delivered the goods in August. For you, this means a whole lot of knowledge just waiting to be absorbed. Tableau vizzes, […]
A Problem-Free Philosophy of Analytics
Hakuna MaDATA, what a wonderful phrase! It adorned the t-shirts of one of our best partners, Snowflake, at the 2018 Disney Data and Analytics Conference. It’s a fitting slogan not because of the “Lion King” themed event, but because it’s very true of what their technology offers. As the joyful cartoon characters sang into my […]
How to Increase Tableau User Adoption Through Good Documentation
Yes, I know. Documentation is not a sexy topic. It is not easy to keep documentation updated. It is not always easy to identify the right level of technicality. Finally, we are all more the dashboard builder and tinkerer in our hearts than we are the nitty-gritty writer of documentation. First, let’s get a motivation […]
Tableau Dashboard Tip: Creating a Dynamic Colour Legend
While attending the Tableau Conference in London, we received many interesting questions. I want to share one of them here. We want to see sales performance over time. What if we sometimes want to compare different sub-categories separately and just want to see the development overall (for all sub-categories together)? Let’s say you have a […]
Questions from Tableau Training: Percent Change from Previous Period on a Map
When asking a recent Tableau class about how they might use Tableau’s mapping features, I had one course member state that a view he currently uses (and is looking to transfer into Tableau) shows the % change in sales from the previous period by either a regional, state or city level of detail. He wanted […]
How to Build a ‘Shape Funnel’ in Tableau and When to Use Other Funnel Types
As Dave Sirey recently wrote about it, “Funnel charts are a great way to track progress through a workflow with multiple steps. They can highlight how well a process is being followed and easily identify any bottlenecks. You can even use table calculations to look at different ways to measure progress to each step (percent […]