PYD61 – Alteryx Inspire 2018 Recap
It’s officially conference season! Following up our TC2018 Europe previews (Part 1, Part 2), we’re wrapping up Alteryx Inspire 2018 with InterWorks’ Alteryx Practice Lead & Alteryx Ace Michael Treadwell and Analytics Consultants Chris Sanders and Russ Lyman. The team came back with some great highlights and interesting takeaways into the future of not only […]
Tableau Server or Online? ServerCare Is the Best of Both.
Tableau Server is the enterprise platform software for publishing, securing and distributing the content (dashboards and data sources) created by Tableau developers. It can be installed on a standard Linux or Windows Server in your data center, private cloud or public cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.). Tableau Online is Tableau’s SaaS offering for Tableau Server. You […]
Sandra Wants Your Data
I had prepared as best I could for the 12-hour drive home from my son’s Boy Scout camp in Colorado. Hours of audiobooks and podcasts would be my muse, keeping me alert while transporting 15 teenage kids back to their trusting parents. A newly released pod-drama commanded my study that Saturday morning the likes of […]
Two Ways to Build Funnel Charts in Tableau
Often in my training classes, I find students who are building dashboards to monitor a linear workflow such as an HR recruiting pipeline or order fulfillment. Tableau is an excellent BI tool to monitor these workflows, and a funnel chart is a powerful, easy-to-build visual that can provide valuable insight into your data. Funnel charts […]
PYD60 – Tableau Conference Europe 2018, Part 2
Tableau Conference Europe 2018 is next week! Besides making last-minute preparations, David Pires finishes up talking to some fantastic people in the data community that you can meet at TC18Europe – Tristan Guillevin, Sarah Bartlett, Rebecca Roland, Simon Beaumont and Tableau’s Sara Fernandes. We hope to see you in London; stop by our booth and […]
Advance with Assist: Filtering Select Dates with DATETRUNC
Welcome to the first edition of “Advancing with Assist.” This week’s question came from a newer user to Tableau who asked: “I only need values before the first day of the current month. Is there an easier way than excluding the month manually each time my data is updated?” The InterWorks Assist team hopped on […]
Tables in Tableau: Jazzing It Up with a Purpose, Part 1
In the world of data visualisation, there is a love-hate relationship with tables, also known as crosstabs. The truth is, as with any other type of data visualisation, tables have a space in the analytical world and are customarily used or even required by some industries, such as finance where the appetite for balance sheets, […]
LGBTQ Acceptance and Media Portrayal
This coming weekend, hundreds of thousands of people will be celebrating Pride in some of the largest gatherings around the world. In the United States alone, revelers in San Francisco, New York City and Seattle will come together to celebrate love, diversity and, of course, progress. Quantifying Progress When mulling over what I wanted to […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – May 2018
It seems like the warm temps are heating everything up, including the InterWorks blog! This month was a smorgasbord of different pieces. We saw event previews and recaps. There were a handful of Tableau vizzes (including an excellent Viz for Social Good piece on diversity in tech). We had some detailed walkthroughs on the power of […]
InterWorks Makes the 2018 CRN Solution Provider 500
We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks was recently named to the 2018 CRN Solution Provider 500! This is the fourth year InterWorks has received this honor, and it only reaffirms our commitment to providing quality IT and data solutions for our clients. For those unfamiliar with the CRN Solution Provider 500, this program honors IT solution […]