How We Learn with Data: Part 1 – Can You Learn This Stuff While You Sleep?
“How We Learn With Data” is a series that focuses on the path of learning each of us takes when we are working with, or trying to make sense of data. Take a wander with us through psychology, education theory, philosophy and history. This is an excellent resource if you are bringing data technology into […]
The Expected and Unexpected of Being Support Queen for OK Freewheel
You know that “I’ve made a huge mistake” moment when you realize you have, once again, committed to something that is most likely going to kill you? Somehow, of my own free will and volition, and under no duress or coercion, I managed to volunteer myself as Support Queen for the InterWorks team for OK […]
Resources from the ‘Advanced Analytics Done Right’ Webinar
Predictive analytics is more than just dragging and dropping tools in to your workflow. Predictive analytics drive business critical decisions and help us analyze real-world problems like customer churn, recommendations and targeted marketing campaigns. Alteryx simplifies the process of training predictive models but you want to make sure they are built in a way that you […]
Compare Your Care: Which Hospitals Get Top Ratings?
Have you ever spent time in a hospital? If you’ve been treated at a Medicare certified hospital, there’s a good chance you filled out a survey indicating the quality of care provided to you. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made data from over 4,000 hospital surveys available to the public, including […]
Questions from Tableau Training: Dynamic Label Positioning
From a Desktop II Intermediate class in Melbourne, Priyanka asked me the following question: “In my chart, I want to show forecast and actual as a bullet graph. I’d like to label both values at the end of the chart, whether that’s the bar that’s exceeded goal or just bullet if the goal hasn’t been […]
PYD35 – Alan Eldridge – The Last Data Bender
Alan Eldridge, Tableau’s first full-time local employee for APAC, joins our own Aussie, Robert Curtis. Together they explore what makes Tableau and its community unlike any other, how Tableau is able to meet the demands of both SMBs and Enterprise customers, the future of Tableau and much more. You won’t want to miss Alan’s top […]
Tableau Deep Dive: Dashboard Design – Visual Best Practices
A lot of the hard work is done when it comes to planning and building our Tableau dashboard. Up until now, we were asking business questions to help frame the requirements of our reporting tool and technical questions on how to build it and expand the functionality. Now, we are going to take our Deep […]
Compare the Latest Date to Weekday Historical Average
In the final installment of this series on time-based comparisons, we are diving into comparing a single day’s performance against the historical performance for that particular weekday. To clarify the purpose of this post, suppose that the most recent day you have recorded is a Wednesday. How do you go about assessing if performance was […]
Global EV Sales for the USA and China
This morning I read a post on global EV sales. I was surprised by how large the Chinese automotive market has become. Total automobile sales in the United States for all of 2016 were 17.55 million units, an all-time record. The still nascent Chinese auto market generated 28.03 million units of sales for last year, […]
Third Year Straight InterWorks Places on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 List
For the third year running, InterWorks has been named to CRN’s 2017 Solution Provider 500! This comes on the heels of InterWorks earning a spot in Inc. Magazine’s national list of Best Workplaces. Best Work, Best Clients… So, it’s safe to say we are more than excited for the good press and overall recognition for […]