The Secret to Tableau Server Optimization: Kenny G
Is your Tableau Server bogged down with endless extracts? Is your VizQL Server struggling to render your complex visualizations? A slow dashboard is a useless dashboard. Performance is critical. Researchers from the Forensic Optimization & Obfuscation Lab have pinpointed the secret to smoothing out Tableau Server back-end processes, and it is Kenny G. In particular, […]
InterWorks Named to the 2018 CRN Tech Elite 250
We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks ranked among the 2018 CRN Tech Elite 250! The award recognizes outstanding IT solution providers across North America based on their technical chops, i.e. the number and level of industry certifications they possess from leading technology vendors. Thanks to InterWorks’ ever-growing partner relationships and competencies, this marks our third […]
PYD54 – Gartner & Self-Service Analytics
Magic is what happens when our panel gets together. Magic and gold. This week’s show is a lot of both as Brad, Ben, Kate and Mat talk about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Tools, self-service analytics as a concept and the different infrastructure options your organization can choose from to meet their needs.
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Dashboard List Filters
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. Looking back early in your career, if you needed to crunch some numbers, you clicked on Microsoft Excel, figured out how to get your data into the spreadsheet, massaged it some and then hand-built some calculations and charts. It was somewhat clunky, but it worked. There was a great sense of […]
Which 14er Should I Climb?
Bagging 14ers is all the rage in Colorado, right up there with counting how many days you’ve skied and how long you waited in line for brunch at Snooze. They are badges of honor that many of us wear to establish our belonging in this growing state. But how do you get started in your […]
Data & Espresso: The Pursuit of the ‘God Shot’
It’s the combination of everything coming together perfectly: a glorious blend of texture, aroma and taste. It is a beverage bordering on the divine that represents the purest essence of coffee. It is an espresso shot that tastes as good as freshly roasted coffee smells. For coffee aficionados, it’s something to strive for and an […]
3 Reasons to Attend to Your Local Tableau User Group
About a month ago, we created a Podcast Your Data! episode about Tableau user groups (TUGs) where Dan Murray hosted Andy Piper (one of the leaders of Atlanta TUG), Kent Sloan (Oklahoma City TUG) and myself (co-leader of The Netherlands TUG). During our discussion, we compared different TUG’s across the globe. Of course, all TUGs are different: Some user […]
InterWorks Partners with Dataiku to Democratize Data Science and Data Preparation
We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks is officially a Dataiku partner! Dataiku is a collaborative data science platform designed to reduce the time and effort it takes to use data science applications in a business setting. We’re excited about the potential Dataiku can have for our clients, and we’re already nerding out over all the fantastic […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: REST API Version Checker
Do you suffer from an irrational fear of robots, drones or mechanical sentient beings? Do you get anxiety when you think of the phrase, “artificial intelligence,” see someone dancing with quick and jerky motions or hear the theme song to “The Jetsons?” If so, you may have a disorder named “robophobia.” You should probably visit a medical professional, and you definitely should […]
Building InterWorks Australia: Start with Rambo, then Form Voltron
There’s a unifying thread among InterWorks employees that you might have noticed in blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and more: We really like this company, we really like the people we work with and we really like all the amazing stuff we get to do each day. And the amazing stuff I get to do each day? My […]