Analytics for the Holidays: The Top 30 Christmas Movies in Tableau
“Which is your favorite Christmas movie?” is a question often asked during the holiday season. And an even more convoluted question, “Is Die Hard really a Christmas Movie?” I decided to try and answer those exact questions by quantifying fan sentiment around movie rankings and juxtaposing that against a widely viewed list ranking those films. IMDv: Internet Movie Data Viz To start, I […]
Looking Back at the 2017 InterWorks Summit
Two weeks ago in Stillwater, Oklahoma, InterWorks hosted our first combined Company Summit. Why is that important? For the first time, IT, Sales, BI, Ops, HR and Marketing gathered together for an unforgettable week of catching up and insightful talks. Unfortunately, our UK and EU counterparts could not be in attendance. The good news, however, […]
Video Recap: Experiencing InterWorks Europe
It’s the end of December and naturally a time to reflect on the past year. I joined InterWorks in May. and the few months since then have been intense but exciting. My latest video above only shows a glimpse into my experience with InterWorks Europe. And there have been plenty of changes along the way. We opened […]
The 2017 InterWorks Blog Roundup
Time really does fly when you’re having fun publishing amazing content! 2017 was a huge year for our blog, and it wouldn’t have been possible without our fellow InterWorkers sharing their work with us. We published over 220 blog posts with content ranging from new data vizzes, how-to posts, podcasts, awards and everything in between. […]
PYD48 – Recapping 2017
It’s the final Podcast Your Data! episode of the year, and we’re looking back at an exciting 2017! Robert Rouse and David Pires talk about TC17, new technologies and the year’s best data books. Plus, they give us the rundown on what exciting new tools and organizations we can expect to hear more about in […]
Portals for Tableau: The Year’s Biggest Features
2017 was without a doubt the year of embedded analytics. So, we wanted to emphasize the year’s biggest wins for our version of embedded analytics, Portals for Tableau. It may seem small, but this year we built our Portal solution into a product that can update without manual intervention. This allows us to have continual releases […]
InterWorks Assist: Ad Hoc Help Since 2016
If you are an InterWorks client, then you hopefully already know about InterWorks Assist. If you’re not familiar with Assist, allow me to show you how much this ad hoc service has grown during its first year. Who Should Use InterWorks Assist? Initially launched at the end of last year, Assist provides assistance to current […]
PYD47 – AWS re:Invent Conference 2017
On this week’s podcast episode, host Robert Rouse discusses the AWS re:Invent conference with panelists Brian Bickell and Derek Hecksher. The Las Vegas, Nevada, conference was massive with over 40,000 people in attendance. It was a builders-focused event, centered around new and updated offerings. Amazon also displayed their cloud offerings, which are making waves in machine learning and deep learning. […]
Tableau Deep Dive: Table Calculations – Custom Sorts, Part One
(Note: All the charts we build are included at the bottom of this article in a packaged workbook available for you to download.) Table calculations in Tableau can get complicated very quickly. But these extra little features make a big difference, such as computing specific dimensions, secondary calculations and more. My goal with this article […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – November 2017
As we become further entrenched in the holiday season, you would think our task lists would have become smaller at this point. But this is simply not the case when it comes to our blog! Throughout November, our consultants and trainers were writing “how to” posts and creating dashboards faster than we could hit publish! […]