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! […]
Event Debrief – November 2017
Much like Thanksgiving’s leftovers, November has come and gone all too fast. November provided us with the opportunity to experience quite a few events here in our backyard. Our consultants didn’t have to travel too far since two events took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just down the street, this past month. Elsewhere in the world, data training sessions and […]
Tableau Extended: My Tableau Repository
I’m a Tableau certified trainer and Analytics Consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. I’ve written many articles on the InterWorks blog in order to help answer the same questions I get from my students and clients. For today’s Tableau Extended post, we’re going to focus on the default folder for all things in Tableau: My Tableau Repository. […]
Automatically Sync Your Dashboards with Portals for Tableau
If you use InterWorks’ version of embedded analytics, Portals for Tableau, you already know how quick and easy it is to display a dashboard in it. If you aren’t lucky enough to have experienced creating a dashboard in a portal, it’s easier than cracking the screen on your phone and faster than the regret that will […]
PYD46 – Debbie Forster – Creating a Culture of Innovation
This week, we have a special episode of Podcast Your Data! from across the pond! InterWorks U.K.’s Sian Davies hosts Tech Talent Charter CEO Debbie Forster. As a member of the British Empire and one of the “20 Most Influential Women in U.K. IT” since 2014, Debbie is a leading figure in the U.K.’s tech […]
A Data Science Treatise: Part Two – Success Through Tinkering
In part one of this series, I laid out a pretty grim reality for many organizations seeking to gain insight from data science. For this post, I will spend more time talking about the exciting possibilities that can be accomplished with data science rather than the pitfalls. Why Data Science? People who no longer want […]
From A to Z: The Healthy Data Ecosystem Alphabet
Every once in a while, I wake up in the middle of the night and don’t feel like reading a book. This happened a few weeks ago and I started thinking about business information and the alphabet. I decided to try to come up with a sentence that described some aspect of a healthy data ecosystem […]
How to Create Bins on a Histogram in Tableau
(Note: This post is an expanded version of an article I originally posted on the Tableau Community Forums prior to joining InterWorks.) Tableau has the awesome capability to build bins and instantly create histograms, but it comes with a couple limitations. First, bins are not available for use in calculations. It turns out, Tableau has a […]