Questions from Tableau Training: When to Pivot Data in Tableau
A common question that often comes up in trainings is: “How do I utilize the Pivot feature in Tableau to make building charts easier?” What does it mean to pivot data? A pivot is a transformation of data structure from a wide view (many columns) to a long view (condensed columns). There are many benefits […]
The 3-2-1 Backup Rule Still Rules
As technology has evolved in the IT sector, many businesses are transitioning to newer, redundant systems. These include redundancy through a RAID on a server or storage area network (SAN), computing redundancy (RAM/CPU) through virtualization and redundancy due to manufacturers incorporating field-replaceable units (FRUs) to swap out bad hardware. Additionally, many businesses have transformed in […]
Questions from Tableau Training: Adding Gaps Between Bars
A common question that often comes up in trainings is: “How do I add gaps between the bars of my visualizations?” The first thing to know is whether or not your graph should have spaces between the bars or not. If you are trying to visualize ordered quantitative data broken into ranges, then a histogram […]
Watch These TC15 Sessions from InterWorks Clients Arby’s and Cars.com
Last week, we shared a link to InterWorks and Princeton University’s sponsored session at Tableau Conference 2015. Today, we’d like to share even more sessions from some of InterWorks’ friends and clients. Below, you can discover how Arby’s and Cars.com have used Tableau to forever change the way they look at their data. To view the […]
How I Went from Dental Assistant to InterWorks Administrative Assistant
The famous/dreaded question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Well, it was always dreaded to me, at least. I had no idea what I wanted to be “when I grew up.” Am I grown up now?! Nobody wants to be a grown up! Adulting is hard – plain and simple – and […]
Baylor @ Oklahoma State by the Numbers
Two weeks ago, I shared “TCU @ Oklahoma State by the Numbers.” TCU had a solid advantage over OSU in most statistical categories leading into that game, yet OSU defied the numbers and came out with a convincing win. Last week, OSU scraped out a hard-fought win on the road at Iowa State – rallying from another 17-point deficit to maintain their perfect […]
Control Parameters and Simple Batch Macros in Alteryx
The ability to create macros that can be shared and used in other workflows as tools is one of the greatest features of Alteryx. Each macro works like a user-defined function that you would create in another language, like R. A standard macro takes a data stream input, performs a series of actions, and then […]
I Hate When Tableau Does That: Magical Morphing Mark Types
One of my favorite chart types in Tableau is the dual-axis chart. It’s a thing of beauty! Most often in client engagements, this chart type will be used to compare a base metric with a series of user-selected secondary metrics via a parameter. The best thing about this chart type is that not only can […]
Nutanix Community Edition Can Now Be Hosted in the Public Cloud
I recently wrote a blog detailing how awesome the Nutanix Community Edition was for the partner community. In that article, I point out how amazing it is for Nutanix to give partners an inexpensive way to learn and demo their product. The only hard part about the process was finding the hardware to install Community […]
InterWorks’ Ideen Jahanshahi Named ‘Best Veeam Engineer in the World’ for Second Consecutive Year
He’s done it again! InterWorks’ own Systems Engineer Ideen Jahanshahi claimed the title of “Best Veeam Engineer in the World” for the second consecutive year. Like last year, he earned the title along with $10,000 in prize money by coming in first place in Veeam’s LAB WARZ – a competition at Veeam’s annual VeeamON conference. […]