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 City’s 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 doesn’t make […]
InterWorks Celebrates 10 Years of InnoTech Oklahoma
In just a few short weeks, InterWorks will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Oklahoma’s premier business technology conference: InnoTech Oklahoma. For those of you who haven’t been, InnoTech is a one-day conference that brings attendees face to face with the latest innovations from leading tech vendors and solution providers. It’s the state’s largest technology showcase, and […]
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 […]