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 […]
Open Data Viz: San Francisco 311 Calls
Living in one of the most populated cities in the country, San Francisco comes with many perks. There is an endless number of events, unique neighborhoods around every corner and good public transportation. Of course, with so many people living and visiting in such a confined city, public amenities are bound to become broken, dirty or in […]
Predicting March Madness in Tableau: 2018 Edition
March Madness is upon us once again! As is tradition, I’ve applied my knowledge of data with my love of hoops to update two March Madness data visualizations in Tableau. These dashboards are largely the same as previous years, only with new data and a few tweaks. I include a little more background on how I built them […]
Visualizing 7 Years of Movement on the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released their annual BI Magic Quadrant, which shows the top players in the BI space and ranks them in relation to each other. InterWorks partner Tableau Software is perennially in the Leader category, and this year is no exception. In fact, both Tableau and Microsoft Power BI greatly outpaced others in the market. […]
PYD53 – Tableau Performance
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! We’re officially two years old. Thank you for being a part of our community for the past two years. We have some exciting updates to the show that we’ll implement in upcoming episodes, the first being our new panel format. Brad Fair and Mat Hughes join host Robert Rouse to talk […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – February 2018
Whether you were busy falling in love in February or you’re just looking for a recap of everything that went down on the InterWorks blog, we have you covered with our February blog roundup. Sure, February is the shortest month of the year, but we put out a wealth of content ranging from the usual Tableau tips […]