Effective Data Governance with Tableau and DataGravity
Every once in a while, new technologies come along that alter your thinking. In 1982, the spreadsheet radically changed how everyone created budgets. In 2007, Tableau Software changed the way I looked at data. For the first time, the hardware had enough power to analyze large data sets, and Tableau took advantage of what that […]
You’ve Got Questions, the Tableau Community Has Answers
In some of my recent posts, I’ve talked (and visualized) about some of the reasons why I love the Tableau community. My first post about the topic was a “thank you” to the Tableau community in general while my second post analyzed community member stats. Continuing with our theme, I wanted to look closer at one […]
10 Questions for Tableau Twitter Connector Mike Cristiani
I met Mike through Twitter some time in 2009. Mike was active in the Tableau community, connecting people from all over the world and answering questions on the Tableau Forums. I did a gig in Ohio in the spring and decided to detour to Cincinnati and meet Mike in person. After spending the afternoon with […]
Hiring: It’s ‘HELL YES’ or ‘NO’
Here at InterWorks, maintaining a small group of amazing people is very important to me. Having 500, 1,000 or 10,000 employees just for the purpose of leveraging that army to hit a billion in revenue is simply not the goal. In fact, it just sounds horrible. We take a lot of pride – and put […]
Using Tableau on your Mobile
I have been using Tableau since version 4, initially as a Tableau customer. One of the first things I wanted was to be able to see my data on the move. I didn’t want to see everything, just the basics, a list of green ticks showing me everything was OK back in the office, or the […]
The Tableau Performance Checklist: Filtering – Minimize Quick Filters
Quick! Minimize those quick filters! The Tableau Performance Checklist is a guide to assist you in creating the most efficient and fastest dashboards and visualizations possible. The list is drawn from the collective experience of our award-winning Tableau professional services team. We’ve divided the checklist into different categories. Today, we’ll start the Filtering category with […]
10 Questions for InterWorks CEO Behfar Jahanshahi
I met Behfar for the first time around 2005. At the time, I was the CFO/CIO for a mid-sized global manufacturing and distribution business. We has just finished divesting our parent company, and most of my team and I had to find technology partners that could handle our IT infrastructure and support needs globally. Driving […]
InterWorks Voted okc.BIZ’s ‘Best Information Technology Company’ for Fifth Year Running
After spending the past few months tallying votes, okc.BIZ recently announced the winners of their annual “Best of Business” competition! The competition recognizes Central Oklahoma’s best businesses across a number of industries. Wouldn’t you know it, the winner of “Best Information Technology Company” went to InterWorks yet again! That makes this the fifth straight year […]
Brain-Dump … er … Update on Data-Aware Storage from DataGravity
Things have been extremely busy at InterWorks lately and I haven’t hit my blog series on the DataGravity Discovery Series array in awhile. Our storage system is fully in production and is purring along quite well, and I intend to allocate more time moving forward to sharing the wonderful experiences we’ve been having. Ramping Up Awareness […]
Saving and Customizing Table Calculations in Tableau 9.0
When I build Tableau workbooks, I like to create quick table calculations (such as percent of total) and save those as a calculated field in the Data pane. That way, I don’t have to create that table calculation again if I want to use it on another worksheet, and I don’t have to bother with […]