Open Data Viz: The NYC Restaurant Finder
After seeing my colleague, Maureen, dive into NYC Open Data with posts on NYC Vehicle Crashes and Parking Tickets, I figured I should take a look around myself to see what other kinds of data the city has made public. Turns out there are more than 1300 data sets available on the site. After some digging, I […]
InterWorks Dubbed ‘Best IT Company in Oklahoma’ for Sixth Straight Year
We just keep crushing the 2010’s. For the sixth consecutive year, okc.BIZ named InterWorks the “Best IT Company in Oklahoma” as part of their annual Best of Business awards. The announcement came during the Best of Business awards banquet held in Oklahoma City on March 29. Our feelings on winning yet again? Ecstatic. We’d simply […]
Tableau Driver’s Ed: Creating a Center of Evangelism
In the previous article of Driver’s Ed, we covered the four phases of the Drive methodology to build an analytics culture step-by-step. The third phase, Foundation Building, details how to use the quick wins achieved in Phase 2 to solidify the base for scaling out Tableau to the rest of the organization. Part of this […]
Alphabet Soup: Understanding Tableau File Extensions
Acronyms, acronyms, acronyms. They dominate the Internet, social media, everything. IMHO, probably too much. And yes, Tableau is no different. It’s all just TMI. To help get you out of WTF and back to LMFAO, I’ve compiled all of the different Tableau file extensions, what they mean and which are the most commonly used. YW. […]
How to Improve Wildcard Filter Performance in Tableau with Wildcard Parameters
Recently, I was working with a client on a dashboard using a wildcard filter to search for thousands, if not millions, of unique item part numbers. This was a very large company, where a “big” data set meant at least a few billion rows of data, even when using an extract. One of the first […]
Bring Web Data into Alteryx with the InterWorks Import.io Connector
Import.io is the best tool for scraping structured data off the web. Alteryx is the best tool for self-service data analysis. It doesn’t take long to realize that we should put the two together.
PYD05 – Amber Smart – Data Analyst at Life.Church and Tableau Community Ambassador
Amber Smart of Life.Church joins InterWorks’ own Ben Bausili to talk about her journey into full-time problem solving, running a Tableau User Group and data in the church.
Using Comics to Tell Data Stories
Data stories are about people. We make charts about customers buying things, students earning grades, investors placing trades and on it goes. The people reading and making charts also have stories to tell, but their experiences are hard to describe with numbers and simple shapes. For that, we need something else. The characters in this […]
Questions from Tableau Training: Showing the Null Indicator
A common question that comes up in trainings is: “I accidentally removed the null indicator, how do I get it back (without using undo)?” Ignoring the null indicator on visualizations can often cause discomfort among end users as they may believe that something is wrong. In certain charts, a null indicator does not mean that […]
The 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs Matchup Viz
Many of us at InterWorks are avid sports fans, as you can see from our various blog posts and the many examples in the Viz Gallery. While these examples tend to focus a lot on football (pro or college) and various other sports, I wanted to bring a bit of hockey into this blog. What […]