InterWorks Blog Roundup – April 2018
In addition to beautiful flora, April brought with it a multitude of excellent posts on the InterWorks blog. Our authors kicked things off with some good April Fools’ fun, created a handful of interesting vizzes ranging from pinball to LA crime, shared some invaluable Tableau tips and even hosted some notable podcasts, including one with the […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Report Builder Emailer
Portals for Tableau’s report builder functionality is great if you are preparing to give a presentation and want to use the visualizations as evidence that what you’re saying isn’t just made up on the spot, and people in the audience should actually pay attention to what you’re saying instead of reading “15+ ways you’ve been […]
Event Debrief – April 2018
InterWorks had huge successes over the past month as we had events across the nation alongside our partners! Check out the slideshow below for some pics from our recent events, then read on for more info on what we’ve been up to. Brewalytics and More On our business intelligence side, April’s events went coast to […]
Tableau Prep: How to Cleanse Your Data and Prepare It for World Domination Analysis
Hello again, data friends. My focus for this blog post will be the variety of formidable data cleansing options available in Tableau Prep (TP for short). I long for the day when data arrives clean – no bogus characters, mismatched naming conventions and or even duplicates. While I’m dreaming, I’d also love to have a […]
How to Properly Render Custom Fonts in Tableau
Times New Roman? How did that happen? That’s not the font I used! As I walked around the room, I noticed that several of my colleagues were seeing my dashboard with an entirely different font than the one I had chosen. It was one of the first major dashboards I had developed, and I had […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Report Builder Cover and Footer Pages
When you’ve had a taste of Portals for Tableau’s report builder functionality, you invariably want more. It started as simply taking snapshots of several dashboards and exporting them as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Then, it was exporting those same snapshots as a PDF file. Next, there was the ability to set a PowerPoint template, control […]
Combining Data with Joins
I rarely ever receive pristine data, and I’d wager that’s true for most of us working in data analysis or business intelligence. Data can come to us from dozens—if not hundreds—of sources, and it certainly requires some preparation to make it useful. One of the most common data preparation tasks is to combine columns from […]
Superior IT Service in a Service-Weary World
I slammed the phone down a bit harder than the last time. I felt my face redden, the tendons in my neck tense and small beads of sweat erupt from just below my hairline. For the third time today, I had been tossed from human to human after listening closely because the menu items had […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: API Relay
You’ve got a Portal for Tableau. You’ve got Dataiku. You’ve also got an ingenious idea to use some of the data science from your awesome new Dataiku project on your portal’s frontend. For instance, you want to provide an interactive form to predict the weather at a user’s location, or maybe something actually useful […]
Tableau Prep: First Impressions from a Data Engineer
Guys and gals, I’m excited – my favorite data visualization tool, Tableau, now has a data preparation and transformation tool. It’s called Tableau Prep (Project Maestro when in beta) and yes, it is awesome. Tableau Prep is a personal data preparation tool that empowers the user with the ability to cleanse, aggregate, merge or otherwise […]
