PYD01 – Tableau Your Data! with Dan Murray
Dan Murray, author of Tableau Your Data!, joins fellow consultant Tim Costello to talk about the second edition of TYD!, life on the road and what's going on in the industry....
PYD01 – Tableau Your Data! with Dan Murray
The Tableau Performance Checklist: Dashboard Layout – Fix Dashboard Size
In our last guideline, we’ll revisit another tip on how your dashboard’s layout can impact performance: "Fix dashboard size relative to end-user consumption. Automatic sizing is less efficient than specifying dashboard size." It’s not all about size … though I’ve heard it’s mightily important. Automatic Sizing There is a...
Visualizing the Golf Drive in Tableau
The 2016 golf season is starting to pick up speed. In just a couple of months, the first major of the year, The Masters, kicks off at Augusta and with it the race for the FedEx Cup. Being a golf nut, I’ve always wanted to create a visualization...
Questions from Tableau Training: The Small Grey Bar Within a Quick Filter
A common question that comes up trainings is: ”What does the small grey bar within the quick filter box represent?” Using quick filters is one of the easiest ways to provide end users with the ability to control what they want to see. Although they are quick, they...
The Tableau Performance Checklist: Dashboard Layout – Limit Number of Worksheets
We are onto our last category of the Tableau Performance Checklist, Dashboard Layout. For our next guideline: "Limit the number of worksheets on a dashboard. If you have more than four visualizations on a dashboard, strongly reconsider." Let’s begin! Dashboarding or Dash-boring The allure of putting as much information on...
10 Questions for Chicago TUG Founder Rina Bongsu-Petersen
I discovered Rina in 2009 because she was the winner of Tableau’s first visualization contest for a dashboard called "Fit and Fat in America." I called her in to do an interview for a blog post. We spoke for over an hour, but our Tableau/BI consulting business hit an inflection point...
What Is Digital Forensics?
About two weeks ago, InterWorks was once again asked to speak at a lunch and learn event where I presented on digital forensics and its application at an organization level. But what exactly is digital forensics? Digital forensics, also known as computer forensics, is probably a...
Alteryx: The Multi-Tool for Your Data Journey
At InterWorks we are all about the data journey. In the past, the journey to become a data-driven organization was slow and expensive like a long-term expedition force. InterWorks has a different way to climb the mountain, focusing on fitness, speed and experience. We help to...
When Average Isn’t Good Enough: Using Tableau to Visualize Distributions
Averages are great. They take up very little space to report, everybody wants them and we all understand exactly what an average is … or do we? An average as we typically think of it is what we call the mean in statistics. To find...
Predicting March Madness in Tableau
I know, I know. The idea of actually predicting March Madness with any accuracy is an exercise in futility, although that may partially explain why the tournament so fully captures the attention of so both the casual enthusiast and the diehard fan of the game...