Picking a Summer Vacation Spot on a College-Kid Budget
Around mid-April, I got the idea to get out of town for a few days to regroup after a long semester filled with accounting and MIS courses. I recently moved into the Data Engineering Intern role here at InterWorks, and I wanted to be ready to dedicate my full energy to the role. I thought […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Project Workbook Links
Portals for Tableau make it easy to publish only the relevant dashboards to your users. However, let’s say you have a project folder on your Tableau Server that all of your users should have access to. Let’s also say you want your portal’s navigation laid out in a workbook > dashboard structure. Lastly, let’s say […]
PYD57 – Big Data, Small Data, No Data & Lego
Today’s episode delves into the problem with averages and how one can gain interesting insight by deconstructing the outer layers – something that kids are notoriously good at by asking the 5 Why’s (though we’re pretty sure they don’t mean it in the same way). We also jump into several books and have our first […]
InterWorks Named Silver-Level Bicycle Friendly Business for 2018
In honor of National Bike to Work Day (and week), we have a special announcement: InterWorks was recently named a Silver-Level Bicycle Friendly Business by the League of American Bicyclists! We’ve earned this distinction in previous years, but we’re excited to keep the tradition going for 2018. What Does Being a Bicycle Friendly Business Mean? […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Dashboard Creation
Welcome back to Portals for Tableau 101! In today’s lesson, we will cover how to add a dashboard to your portal from Tableau Server. If you missed the last lesson, please check it out as we cover how to set up your portal to connect to your Tableau Server. If you’ve stumbled upon this post […]
Tableau Prep: How to Union and Join Your Data to Infinity and Beyond
As you may recall from my previous post, the year is 3015. As the spaceship sales manager for Toyota, I’m gathering data from the marketplace to analyze it, identify trends and eventually make pricing decisions based on my findings. We’ve been struggling to keep up with other manufacturers as of late, and it’s time to […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Navigation Site Switcher
Portals for Tableau make it easy to show all of the relevant dashboards across your Tableau Server regardless of which site they may be in. However, if you really need to just see the dashboards in a certain Tableau Site, it can make it difficult to find in the navigation. Perhaps it has nothing to […]
The Tableau Performance Optimization Flowchart
Everyone looking at a dashboard expects it to load and respond quickly. What defines “fast” varies from one person to another. As we discussed recently on our Tableau Performance episode of “Podcast Your Data!,” something that takes minutes to load could still feel fast compared to the effort it took before automating things in Tableau. […]
How I Went from Management Consultant and Trying to a Start a Restaurant to InterWorks Analytics Consultant
I was born in New York City to two Chinese parents who emigrated from Hong Kong when they were kids. We bounced around different boroughs before my parents decided to set up in what I like to call, Good Ol’ Dirty Jerz (that’s New Jersey). This is where they popped out my little brother, Terrance. […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Tableau Server Configuration
Are you interested in embedded analytics but worried about where to start? Do you love the look of our Portals for Tableau but have little to no experience in programming? Welcome to “Portals for Tableau 101” where I will help guide you through Portals for Tableau with some introductory lessons. Today let’s start at the […]
