Building Tableau Community: Lessons from ABN AMRO
Tableau user adoption is a common topic not only internally at InterWorks but also throughout the community. You can find many interesting blogs, videos, podcasts and discussions about it. User adoption has many aspects, including building Centres of Excellence, building community and scaling, sharing best practices and so on. We started to collect interviews in […]
Snowflake: Query Execution at Its Finest
I’m sure we can all relate to the following scenario: A client or boss requests a change to a query, so you plop your hands on the keyboard and start cranking out some SQL. At the end of your last revision, you’re about 75% sure that it’s the correct change. Just prior to executing your […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Filter Blacklist
We’ve all been there: You grind away on a dashboard and spend hours to perfect the look and feel. Slowly, you notice the creeping spinning circle running longer and longer – “but that’s a problem for future me,” you tell yourself. Then comes the demo. Suddenly, you’re talking a lot more than you expected in […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Filter and Parameter Apply Button
If you’ve evolved to the point where your dashboards are crunching gobs of data and are powerful enough to warrant numerous filters and parameters to drill down for myriad uses, you may have been annoyed with waiting for each filter to be applied before being able to set the next one. Not only do we […]
2018 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
It’s August again, which means it’s still hot, but football is here! Personally, I’ve been enjoying a ton of baseball and the gobsmackload of home runs we’re seeing. The World Cup was also simply outstanding start to finish, but football in America means only one thing: 22 warriors on the gridiron. Expectations are high for a […]
Need a Car? Welcome to the InterWorks Dealership!
I love cars. The way they sound, the way the smell and the way they feel when you’re cruising down long roads. But sometimes, finding the right car for the experience can be troublesome. Car shopping is a lot like dating. There is a lot of fish in the sea, but when you find the […]
PYD64 – Sarah Burnett
Sarah Burnett’s career in data has taken her all over the world – from New Zealand to London and now to Singapore. Sarah co-leads the Singapore Tableau User Group (with Datasaurus Rex) and is a Tableau Social Ambassador. Jia returns to talk with Sarah about her data (and literal) travels, her involvement in the data community […]
Building Filters in Alteryx for Tableau, Part 1
Recently, I was required to prepare data in Alteryx and output it into a .Hyper file to create a Tableau workbook. The data that was being utilised looked at past sales and potential future sales. The dataset was a very large dataset, over 20 million rows long and 100 columns wide. Once the workbook was […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Export CSV Feature
Until now in Portals for Tableau, we’ve basically forced you to allow your users to download a crosstab of each dashboard by using the Export CSV button. If you didn’t want to let your users access this button, the only solution was to hide it with custom CSS. After a few requests for this custom […]
A Quick Tip to Improve Line Chart Labels in Tableau
Labels on line charts can get messy. To reduce clutter, we are often are faced with reducing the labels to only the end of the line or simply removing the labels altogether. Here’s a simple trick that provides some flexibility with labels on lines. This quick method replaces the line vertices with the line labels, […]