Mission Impossible: Improving The Economist’s Data Visualizations
The point of the #MakeoverMonday project is to take an existing data visualization and improve it. But how can you improve anything that “The Economist” creates? They have such a knack for breaking down complicated topics into clean, clear and concise visualizations. So, when I saw that Week 31’s challenge was to makeover charts related […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2018
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. Great balls of blogging fire! July was a busy month on the InterWorks blog … like, 30 posts and 27 different contributors type of busy. Our team didn’t just turn up the volume either, they also turned up the quality. With a laundry list […]
Tableau Tip: Default to Current Week and Allow Week Selection
The idea behind this blog post is to document a novel approach I have come up with to allow for date selection in a report that defaults to the most recent time frame. There are multiple ways this sort of problem can be solved. My solution has likely been done by someone else in Tableau […]
Advance with Assist: Blending with Dimension Not Utilized
Question: “I’ve established the data relationship, but the number still won’t show and I still get this error. What am I doing wrong?” Blending is one of those features that we see many issues with. Some users don’t realize they’ve started a blend while others may have unknowingly blended on a field that Tableau automatically […]
InterWorks Quarterly Event Debrief: Q2 2018
The InterWorks Events Team has been quiet over the last few months, but that’s not due to inactivity! Rather than continuing our Monthly Event Recaps, we decided to give you a wrap up of our events for each quarter. So, without further ado, let’s dive into Q2. Our Brewalytics series throughout the U.S. went off […]
Hidden in Plain Sight: Why You Should Use a VPN
On a recent early-morning bike ride with a good friend and co-worker, I found myself defending my choice to use a VPN on all my personal devices. I realized that my arguments were anything but iron clad and while I could mentally justify the added protection, I could not even begin to explain why I […]
Transforming Data in Tableau Prep
Picture this: You are trying to build a sales dashboard in Tableau Desktop to show your boss how great you are. But hey, there is one issue: The data you have is currently in a structure not suitable for Tableau Desktop. You need to crosstab or pivot the data on several measures and dimensions. The […]
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 […]
