Five Big Takeaways from the 2018 Culture Summit
Anytime it is 110 degrees in Oklahoma, it’s a good time to get the hell out. I was lucky enough to attend this year’s Culture Summit in beautiful (and much cooler) San Francisco, California. This cross-industry conference focuses on ways to increase employee engagement and build high-performing teams. It’s sponsored by some of the engagement […]
Flipping the Script: How Starting Small and Specific Changed My Human Trafficking Data Viz
Normally when I build a dashboard, I approach it like a funnel: I start with the big picture first and then narrow into more specific details. This allows viewers to establish context and get the most important insights right from the start and then choose how deep to dive into the details. But when I […]
PYD63 – Datasaurus Rex David Murphy
First-time host and InterWorks’ representation in Singapore Jia Liu stomps around with Datasaurus Rex David Murphy. David is from England but seized the opportunity to travel the world and ended up in Singapore, where he works and co-leads the Singapore Tableau User Group. Find out what motivates him, what are some similarities and differences being […]
Advance with Assist: Custom Subscriptions with Tableau Server Custom Views
Question for this week: My users love the dashboards, but they want to get an email with the dashboard filtered to their specific options without having to click the filter. Can we set up a script to send an email to the user with their dashboard needs being clicked automatically? Over the years, I’ve seen […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: On-Premises Analytics Tracking
Everyone is familiar with Google Analytics for tracking web usage. However, some organizations have policies that don’t allow for that data to be collected by a third party or don’t like Google Analytics for some other reason. For instance, maybe Google Analytics forgot to send you a birthday card last year and you haven’t forgotten. Whatever […]
The Basics of Loading Data into Snowflake
For the second post in my continuing series on Snowflake, I wanted to expand on some concepts covered in my JSON post. Last month, I walked you through how to work with JSON in Snowflake and discussed the process Snowflake uses to flatten JSON arrays into a format that can be easily queried. For this […]
How to Fully Remove Microsoft Azure AD Connect
Microsoft’s Azure AD Connect is a great tool that allows admins to sync Active Directory credentials from local domain environments with Microsoft’s cloud (Azure/Office 365), eliminating the need for users to maintain separate passwords for each. While not a common occurrence, there may be reasons that you would need to remove Microsoft’s Azure AD Connect […]
Three Years at Michigan: Harbaugh’s Tenure
I grew up watching college football and always remembered that iconic maize and blue. Now as an adult, Michigan football is somewhat of a family tradition. I watch their games every Saturday during the year with my friends and family, occasionally making the trip up to Ann Arbor to watch them play in one of […]
Using Alteryx to Create the (Almost) Ideal Dataset for an Ottawa Data Viz
Ottawa: Capital city to our neighbor to the north, Canada. Home to astronauts, comedians, musicians and more. The University of Ottawa educated the greatest game show host of all time, Alex Trebek, who studied philosophy (presumably because he couldn’t major in trivia). But most exciting of all, Ottawa is home to an excellent open data catalogue. […]
A Solution to Tableau Line Charts with Missing Data Points
A question that seems to come up every so often as a consultant is around how Tableau doesn’t show data where there is no data. Sounds kinda obvious, doesn’t it? But let’s frame this slightly differently and we can see that whilst this does make sense, it can be a bit of an annoyance. Let’s […]