Data Viz: What Is Polite on a Plane?
TC15 is rapidly approaching, and roughly 12,000 attendees are expected at the festivities. The vast majority of those attendees will be flying into Las Vegas, and there will be plenty that don’t travel very often. They may find themselves on the plane wondering what the proper etiquette is around different things: Is it polite to recline my seat? […]
InterWorks Claims No. 45 Spot on 2015 CRN Fast Growth 150
The awards keep pouring in for InterWorks. Just a few weeks ago, we claimed the No. 45 spot on CRN’s Fast Growth 150 list for 2015! As the name suggests, the Fast Growth 150 is an award list that recognizes the nation’s fastest-growing solution providers in the technology industry. Honorees are determined by the two-year growth […]
The Tableau Performance Checklist: Calculations – Avoid Row-Level Calculations Involving Parameters
Here’s the next item on the Performance Checklist: “Avoid row-level calculations involving parameters.“ Let’s first take a look at what row-level calculations are. Row-Level Calculations Row-level calculations, also known as record-level calculations, operate on every record in the underlying data. An example of a row-level calculation is an IF statement that does not aggregate, such […]
The Real Key to TC15: Getting in the Right Mindset
TC15 is coming. With around a week left until conference time, you’re probably thinking that you have plenty of time to get everything together. You’ve already packed everything (you’re THAT excited), the travel logistics have long since been figured out and you’ve successfully pawned off your normal responsibilities to those miserable souls not attending the conference. What more […]
On Deck Conference: A Glimpse Into the Future of Sports Tech, Data and Analytics
While most of my friends would agree my athletic abilities leave something to be desired, this deficiency does nothing to disparage my passion for enjoying all kinds of sports (In case you were wondering how long we have to wait until the first Hoosier basketball game …). So, when I was recently afforded the opportunity to attend […]
That Harry Potter Tableau Stuff
I joined InterWorks the same day as Ken McBride, and I wouldn’t have described either of us at that point as Tableau black belts — though we’d sure joined the right dojo! Before long, we were both traveling the world doing Tableau training and consulting, and Ken has become known as a Tableau wizard…while after […]
How I Went from Air Force Officer to Tableau Zen Master
I wasn’t expecting anything special to happen on a particular Tuesday in September. Then, I got a note saying there was a package waiting for me. It was from Tableau. I knew that Tableau Zen Masters could be announced soon, so I rushed through Dallas traffic to get there before everyone would be gone for the […]
New Default Setting in Tableau Server 9.1 Will Break Embedded Dashboards
If you embed your Tableau analytics dashboards through either a straight embedded i-frame or with the JavaScript API, upgrading your Tableau Server to 9.1 will cause some unexpected grief. But it’s fixable. After upgrading Tableau Server to 9.1, I was getting this error: Refused to display ‘https://path/to/my/tableau/dashboard?:embed=y&:showVizHome=n&:tabs=n&:to…‘ in a frame because it set ‘X-Frame-Options’ to […]
Tableau Tip: Count Distincts with Google BigQuery
Tableau does a great job of connecting to a variety of databases, but it sometimes needs help on the database end to get the results we need to make hot visualizations. One such example showed itself when connecting to Google BigQuery. The issue? Count distincts. BigQuery doesn’t handle count distincts like one would expect. It gives a statistical approximation (inaccurate) result. […]
Tableau Server Permissions Demystified
I’ve had the pleasure of working with a large number of Tableau Server users and administrators, and by far the most common phrase I hear is “What the [expletive redacted] is up with permissions?!” Permissions in Tableau Server are very simple, given two conditions: Forget everything you know about any other permissioning system ever, and […]