PYD65 – Mavis Liu, Tableau Community Forum Ambassador
Mavis Liu has been a steady force since she started in our London office. From consultant to trainer to, now, Tableau Community Forum Ambassador, she’s going places – both literally and professionally. Fellow consultant Eugenia Kis was able to catch Mavis between gigs and get a look at how Mavis got here, her favorite Tableau […]
VMworld 2018: Day 1 Recap
Day 1 has had its share of exciting announcements. Without a doubt, “cloud” was the key focus, and VMware’s partnership with AWS is taking things to the next level. Here are a few key highlights: Today’s opening session included the announcement of Amazon Relational Database (RDS) on VMware. The same solution that allows you to […]
Portals for Tableau 101: PowerPoint Template for Report Builder
If you’ve used the report builder functionality in Portals for Tableau before, you already know that it can build a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of one or more of your Tableau dashboards. What you may not know is that you can set a template for the presentation that is automatically applied whenever you use the report […]
Kicking Off VMworld 2018
Here we go! VMworld 2018 starts today in Las Vegas! VMware continues to be a leader in technology, innovation and InterWorks is excited to again be part of their annual conference. A few key areas of interest (and rumors we hope to confirm) include: Workspace One – The evolution of end-user computing continues with the […]
WEBINAR: Learn How to Build a Suite of Dashboards with the Feel of an Application
When should a worksheet be part of a dashboard? When should a dashboard be part of a larger suite? Max Giegerich discusses how visual best practices and dashboard actions can be used to optimise the users’ analytical journey and demonstrates some useful advanced techniques for mitigating some of the issues. From the overall design to […]
Advance with Assist: Multiple Dashboard Actions with a Single Click
Question: “Tableau isn’t functioning the way I expect it to. I want to click on a chart and have it affect the two other sheets on the dashboard, but it won’t do what I want it to.” To see what was going on with this question, we jumped on a screenshare to dissect the dashboard […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Caching Dynamic Filter and Parameter Options
Portals for Tableau have had the ability to populate the filter and parameter options from the dashboard’s data. This is great if they change for each user or if you just don’t want to type them into the portal when creating the filter or parameter. I feel you. That’s time I would rather spend doing […]
Building Filters in Alteryx for Tableau, Part 2
This post continues from Building Filters in Alteryx for Tableau, Part 1. In this, the foundation filter calculations were built. I advise going through Part 1 before looking at this section. If you would like to follow on with the workflow, it is possible to download this from the first blog post. This post will […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Menus
In Portals for Tableau, we understand the need to customize the look and feel of your portal for the front-end users. We provide a few different styles that you can utilize to give a unique experience for your users. These navigation types are the standard Top Navigation, Top Navigation (No Subnav), Mega Menu, Side Menu […]
Making a Packed Circle Grid in Tableau
Recreating an inspiring visualization is a great way to learn and stretch the limits of a tool. Recently, Andy Kirk reached out to Twitter followers looking to see if it’s possible to make a grid full of circles like this Nobel Laureates graphic using Tableau. Not only is it possible, it is easy to build […]