The Tableau Performance Checklist: Rendering – Avoid High Mark Counts
The first item in the Rendering category is: “Avoid high mark counts. More marks = longer rendering time.“ Letâs jump right in on this one. Mark Counts Marks are the points, plots or symbols on your visualization. They can be the bars in your horizontal bar graph or the points in your line graph. Each […]
A Quick Recap of Tableau Conference 2015
Just a few days ago, Tableau Conference 2015 came to a close. đ It was sad to see it end, but we had to return the real world sometime, right? Well, here we are. Now that weâve settled back in, we can finally put the conference into perspective and give it a nice little recap. If […]
Exporting Tableau Dashboards to PowerPoint
As Tableau Developers, we hate to see our work flattened and shoved into a PowerPoint file. We love to see our work displayed in it’s fullest, greatest ways – full of filters, parameters and tooltips for our users to play around with. Occasionally, though, we have a few stubborn users who want to see the data in […]
Data Viz: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
The Drawing Tool has been incorporated into CBI Studio by InterWorks. Explore CBI Studio to see whatâs new. Whatâs not to love about dinosaurs? Their size, their teeth, their mystery â they still capture my imagination just as they did when I was six years old and coloring a Stegosaurus in a coloring book. What […]
InterWorks Ranks on 2015 OKC Metro 50
It must be award season! Just a few weeks ago, InterWorks was recognized as part of the 2015 Metro 50. Ran by the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber and The Journal Record, these awards recognize Oklahoma Cityâs fastest-growing, privately owned companies. Honorees and their respective rankings were announced at an awards banquet held at the National Cowboy & […]
Where Are You From? Visualizing TC15 Attendee Locations
We all know that TC15 brings together quite the variety of people from around the country and even around the world. The question, however, is where exactly are all these people coming from? I managed to get my hands on some data surrounding this year’s attendees to find out (don’t worry, it’s an anonymized data set). About […]
Introducing the Public ‘Tableau Users’ Slack Channel!
If you’re keeping tabs on the latest and greatest communication and collaboration tools, you’ve no doubt heard of Slack. It’s everything IM should be and so much more. With near unlimited customization and integrations, Slack works fantastically in pretty much any environment for a wide variety of uses. It’s made fans of companies like FiveThirtyEight, The New […]
The TC15 Guide to Las Vegas
The 2015 Tableau Conference is just a few days away. While it isn’t the first time the conference has been in the City of Sin, it will be the first conference for many of you and possibly your first trip to Vegas. During my years in the casino world and continued consulting in that space, I […]
Gearing Up for Tableau Conference 2015
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. This has been a strange year for me. After the success of Tableau Your Data!, Wiley was keen on a second edition. I thought writing an update to an existing book (the first one required a year) would be a piece of cake. Tableau doesnât make […]
InterWorks Celebrates 10 Years of InnoTech Oklahoma
In just a few short weeks, InterWorks will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Oklahomaâs premier business technology conference: InnoTech Oklahoma. For those of you who havenât been, InnoTech is a one-day conference that brings attendees face to face with the latest innovations from leading tech vendors and solution providers. Itâs the stateâs largest technology showcase, and […]