InterWorks Blog Roundup – January 2017
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. How is it already the middle of February? It seems like just last week we were ringing in the new year. I guess the saying “time flies when you’re putting out tons of great content” really does ring true. Ok, maybe I’m the only […]
Tableau Deep Dive: Dates – Calendar Filters
For this article in our Deep Dive on Dates, we’re going to build a filter in the form of a calendar. Our user can select an entire month or a series of days to create a subset of data on the dashboard. Here’s a preview of what we’re building: Master Date Data Source The first […]
InterWorks Named 2016 Tableau EMEA Services and Training Partner of Year
Above: The InterWorks Europe crew onstage. Thrilled does not cover it! With over 300 Tableau partners attending this year’s EMEA Tableau Partner Summit, InterWorks were delighted to be awarded Services and Training Partner of the Year for the second year in a row. So, what does that mean to us? It only serves as an […]
PYD26 – Preparing for a Career in Data
Michael, Katie and Jon — several of our resident LSU grads (Geaux Tigers) — talk about how to prepare yourself for a career in the data field. Whether you’re in college now, about to go to college, considering a career change or know someone who is, this group gives some great insights into what it […]
Tableau Deep Dive: Dates – Rolling Dates
Let’s continue our exploration of dates in our Deep Dive. In Part 6, we’re going to focus on how we can create rolling dates. A rolling date is taking a specific date, such as order date, and then adding a certain amount of days, months or whatever date part we need. For example, a rolling year […]
Tableau Deep Dive: Dates – Custom Dates
Let’s continue on with our Deep Dive into Dates. This article, we’ll explore custom dates. The name admittedly is a bit of a misnomer and only really make sense if you understand date parts and date values. Make sure to catch up on this series by starting with Part 1. Let’s get after it. Choosing […]
Tableau Deep Dive: Dates – Exact Dates
We’re continuing our Deep Dive into Dates with an examination of the Exact Date value. Remember to catch up on the previous three articles where I introduced dates (discrete vs. continuous) and some key date functions. Let’s get started! Exactly What is Exact Date? In our first article, we learned the difference between discrete and […]
Tableau Deep Dive: Dates – More Date Functions
We’re continuing our Deep Dive into Dates with further exploration into date specific functions. In this article, we’ll cover DATEADD, DATEDIFF and DATETRUNC. My goal is not only to show you how to use them but to give you some real world examples of when they’d be particularly useful. We’re going to start with our hypothetical Superstore […]
Tableau Deep Dive: Dates – Preparing Dates
In the first article on the Deep Dive on Dates, I introduced some of the basic concepts of dates. Specifically, we covered discrete vs. continuous dates, dart parts vs. date values and some basic date functions (DATEPART, YEAR, MONTH and DAY). In this article, we’ll cover more ways to work with dates. Most of the […]
Alteryx Tool Spotlight: Compare Values Across N Groups with Dynamic Replace
Imagine you are supplied financials from multiple vendors and have the wonderful task of comparing them to each other? With two vendors, you could easily write out formulas in Excel for each financial line item comparing one vendor to the other. But what if you had over 1,000 vendors to compare? You’d probably quit on the […]