Video Tutorial: Creating a Combined Axis Chart in Tableau
In this quick video tutorial, I show you how to creat a combined axis chart in Tableau – a chart that allows you to put two separate measures on the same axis.
Scaling Tableau Dashboards on High-Res Monitors
Scenario: You’ve just purchased a new laptop with an amazing high resolution display. Woo hoo! However, when you start up Tableau, something looks a bit fishy: Figure 1: Hmmmm … This seems to compound when you open a dashboard: Figure 2: YIKES!! When opening Dashboards, Tableau is scaling the dashboards in accordance with your new […]
Video Tutorial: Creating a Parameter in Tableau
In this brief video, I walk through the four steps to creating a parameter in Tableau: Create the parameter control Show the parameter control Use the parameter in a calculated field Use the calculated field in the view Follow along in the video to see how easy it is!
Using Big Data to Tackle Big Goals: How Data Analytics Can Help Countries Confront Health Emergencies
I’ve just returned from Vietnam, and I’d like to share a story with you. This story involves hundreds of people from countries all over the world, working together for a common cause. First, let’s talk about a very common, little pest known as the aedes aegypti. Aedes Aegypti The aedes aegypti is a type of […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – September 2016
Ahhh, September! School is in full swing for the youngsters and the weather is finally starting to cool down. That said, the InterWorks blog is just heating up. Check out all our content from last month below: News InterWorks Rakes in Metro 50 and Best Places to Work in Oklahoma Honors for Yet Another Year Tableau […]
InterWorks Rakes in Metro 50 and Best Places to Work in Oklahoma Honors for Yet Another Year
We’re at the height of the 2016 award season, and InterWorks just raked in two new awards this week! Ok, well, they’re not technically new, considering we’ve won both for multiple years in a row now, but they are new for 2016! What are these awards? Being named to the Oklahoma City Metro 50 and […]
How to Make Centered Scatter Plots and Quadrant Charts in Tableau
Have you ever wanted your scatter plots or quadrant analysis charts to be centered instead of skewed to one side of the axis? Perhaps you’ve even found yourself wanting to keep the axis centered as you interact with quick filters or dashboard actions. Well, you’re in luck! Take these steps and you’ll have what you’re […]
PYD17 – Advanced Analytics with Alex Lentz and Michael Treadwell
Consultant Alex Lentz and Alteryx Ace Michael Treadwell join Ben to talk about what predictive analytics is and philosophies and techniques for taking your data to the next level with R and Alteryx.
How I Went from Engineering to Advertising to Finance to InterWorks Analytics Consultant
At a glance, the title of this post might make it seem like I was jumping around before InterWorks. I had a freshly earned electrical engineering degree in one hand, my left foot had barely pivoted from completing a marketing analytics internship at one of the biggest advertising agencies in Chicago, and my right foot was stepping into […]
Questions from Tableau Training: How Can I Transform My Crosstab into a Flat List?
Here’s a question I got from Quoc about how to work with the structure of the data source he was receiving: “How can I transform my crosstab into a flat list?“ He wanted to take a table that looks like this: And make it into a flat list with a continuous date field. This is […]