Tableau Viz Showcase by Industry: Retail
As leaders in data visualization with Tableau, we are contacted every day by potential clients seeking information about how we can help them leverage Tableau to make better decisions with data. Because Tableau is such an amazing tool and not industry specific, we get to work with a wide variety of client types: internet service providers, search engines, […]
The Tableau Performance Checklist: Local Computations – Server Performance
Here’s the first guideline from the Local Computations category: “Even if a workbook is published to Tableau Server, local computations still impact performance. Leverage the power of Tableau Server whenever possible by limiting local computations such as groups, hierarchies, reference lines, table calculations and blending.” Let’s get started! Computation vs. Calculation Perhaps it is best […]
Tableau and Mint Help You Answer the Question: ‘Where Did All My Money Go?’
With the new year comes resolutions to do better in 2016. Many have made (and already broken) the goal to exercise more. Some have resolved to eat healthier. Others have made the resolution to do better with their personal finances. Improving your personal financial situation is possible only after you gain a better understanding of […]
The Road to the College Football National Championship
The College Football Playoffs have come and gone. With Alabama’s hard-fought win, I reminisced how their season progressed as well as seasons past. After scouring various sites and blogs, piecing together each champion’s story as well as their challenger’s, I came up with an interactive visual to showcase each team’s road to glory. Predicting a Champion […]
Easy Year-Over-Year Comparisons in Tableau
In most real world data sets, we want to compare “year over year” values. How were we doing last year? How does that compare to this year? Monitoring these comparisons can provide valuable insights to your business; however, the calculation is cumbersome and slow to generate in Tableau. Whenever possible, instead of doing window calculations in […]
Raise Your Glass: Visualizing the World’s Best Beers
InterWorks is home to a motley crew of incredible people, each of whom brings a breadth of experiences, hobbies, virtues … and even a few vices … to the team. There are a few connoisseurs of fine wine who spearhead new initiatives, and I’ve burned the midnight oil with more than a couple whiskey aficionados. […]
Forbes’ Largest Privately-Owned Companies in the US
I’ll be in Minneapolis on Jan. 20 (Thursday afternoon) to speak to the Tableau user group there about the newly-released 2nd edition of Tableau Your Data!, using Tableau for predictive analytics and discovery, and the field of data science in general. It’s the first of many TUGs i’ll be attending in the coming months as part of my 2nd edition […]
Thinking About Data: Part Two – Big Data
Big data has been the rage for a couple of years. There have been many posts written on the explosion of digital data. It’s no longer surprising to learn that we are creating more digital data through machine-generated sources than humans. What’s more surprising to me is how inexpensive it has become to collect and […]
Spark SQL and Tableau: Spin Up a Cluster of Your Own!
If you stay up with the latest and greatest of the data analytics community, by now you have heard of Spark – the Apache project for big data processing, machine learning and streaming data. Tableau has a connection for Spark SQL, a feature of Spark that allows users and programs to query tables using SQL. […]
InterWorks Brings Home Two Tableau Partner Awards for 2015
Over the past few days, Tableau held their annual Partner Summit in Austin, Texas. During this event, partners gathered to reflect on the past year and plan for the coming year. But on Wednesday night came the moment that all these partners (including InterWorks) have been anxiously awaiting: partner award announcements for 2015. You know […]