An Inside Look into a Road Warrior’s Carry-On
If you’ve been living under a virtual rock over the past month, you may not be aware that the 2017 Tableau Conference is approaching fast! This year’s conference promises to be bigger and more informative than ever before. With last year’s attendance at 12,000, we can only guess at how many people will travel from all corners […]
How to Create Quick Table Calculations in Tableau
Quick table calculations in Tableau are a great way to understand and visualise relationships between measure values. The most frequently used calculation types (running total, difference and percent difference) are core metrics in most financial management reports. What Are Ad Hoc Calculations? Quick table calculations were created to be used as ad hoc calculations. Ad hoc calculations […]
InterWorks Ready for 12th Annual InnoTech Oklahoma
We’re only about two weeks out from Oklahoma’s premier business technology conference: InnoTech Oklahoma! On Thursday, Oct. 5, the industry’s top vendors and solutions providers will gather at Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City to share the latest IT trends and innovations. InterWorks has been title sponsor for the past 11 years, and we’re thrilled to do […]
How I Learned to Code and Write Python Script
Let me start off by asking two questions: Why should we learn to code? Why use Python? If you type either question in Google, you’ll receive a long list of differentiating, yet persuasive answers. Knowing how to code is an empowering feeling and skill. From my perspective as a data analyst, coding helps me get the data I need, format […]
Flying with InterWorks Europe
Have you ever wondered what data analysts do in their free time? Obviously, we are tweaking data and exploring the beta version of Tableau Server! Other than that, InterWorkers are just ordinary people with many different hobbies. For instance, if you’re interested in finding the best recipe for homemade bread, David Pires is your go-to […]
Tableau Server on Linux: Performance Sneak Peek
As the first post in a series about Tableau Server on Linux, I wanted to share a quick note and some promising results of performance testing in the upcoming release. The TL;DR Tableau Server on Linux = Joy. Median dashboard load times were cut 40-60% compared to the same test on Windows. Since hosting costs […]
Tableau Deep Dive: Dashboard Design – Publishing
The ultimate goal of this Deep Dive on Dashboard Design is to guide Tableau Desktop users on how to create a dashboard from start to finish. That conversation would not be complete unless we went the extra mile. I’m talking about publishing the dashboard of course. We’ll also continue the second half of our governance conversation […]
How to Pivot with Cross Joins in Tableau
If you are not already familiar with cross joins, you may want to read through my first post in this series for another use case. In this article, I will further define and expand on cross joins. What’s a Cross Join? Sometimes we are stuck working with a non-normalised data source. Instead of a row-based […]
PYD41 – Peter Gilks – Spotify Director of Product Insights
Tableau ambassador and InterWorks EU consultant David Pires talks with Peter Gilks on this week’s episode of Podcast Your Data! Peter is a statistics veteran after working at Slalom and now Spotify as the Director of Product Insights. He’ll also be attending and speaking at the upcoming 2017 Tableau Conference about using Tableau for visual […]
Event Debrief – August 2017
If you haven’t taken a moment yet to browse through the InterWorks event page, you are missing out! Maybe it’s because the 2017 Tableau Conference is coming up, but we have more events than ever before happening across the country. And we don’t want anyone in the data community to potentially miss an event taking […]