The 2015 MLB Regular Season Schedule Visualized in Tableau
The days are getting longer. The weather is getting warmer. The ice is beginning to thaw. You know what this means? The greatest time of year is right around the corner! Summer time is almost here, and with it comes baseball season! To commemorate my favorite time of year and my second favorite sport (sorry, […]
Database Popularity via Social Media
A few years ago, I decided to try to count all of the database products that were available. After spending several hours on a Friday evening trying to count all of them, I gave up at around 2 a.m., having counted 200. I classified them in my own mind as: Relational databases Non-relational databases Grid-cache […]
“InterWorks et Criteo: Un grand déploiement pour une grande société”
Disponible en anglais Chez Criteo, tout est grand! L’unité de mesure de base est le milliard : 1 milliard d’internautes ciblés par des publicités personnalisées en 2014, 19 milliards de dollars de ventes post-clic l’an dernier, 741 milliards de publicités générées en 2014… tout est grand… et son système d’informatique décisionnel est entré dans la cour […]
Navigations-Buttons in Tableau
Immer wieder fragen Leute, wie man in Tableau innerhalb einer Arbeitsmappe effizient zwischen mehreren Dashboards vor und zurückspringen kann. Tatsächlich ist es ganz einfach: man erstellt ein “Button-Menü”, und mittels Aktionen navigiert man elegant dem augenblicklichen Gedankenfluss folgend von Dashboard zu Dashboard. Also statt mühsam die Tab-Leiste durchsuchen zu müssen, einfach klick und schon ist […]
Two Use Cases Where Blending Beats Joining in Tableau 8.3
Blending data sources in Tableau has a steep, although quick, learning curve. It can be easily frustrating to get everything to work, so much so that a user may opt to push all data joins to the database. Also, there are cases (many) where data sources simply cannot exist in the same database: Leveraging external […]
Tableau Essentials: Calculated Fields – Introduction
Not everyone is a Tableau guru, at least not yet. To help Tableau rookies, we’re starting from square one with the Tableau Essentials blog series. The series is intended to be an easy-to-read reference on the basics of using Tableau Software, particularly Tableau Desktop 8.1 and 8.2. Since there are so many cool features to […]
Proud to be Sponsoring The Tableau 9.0 Roadshow…
Register for an upcoming roadshow here. Since the release of Beta 9.0, the InterWorks team have been getting excited over the numerous new and enhanced features the upgrade brings. We’ve written blogs, held webinars and have eagerly been awaiting its public launch. We’re getting ever closer to launch date; and in celebration, we’ll be sponsoring the […]
Using Pivot in Tableau 9.0 for Sensitivity Analysis
So, you’ve officially unlocked your business’ data in Tableau. There’s no denying how easy it is to gain immediate insight by simply clicking and dragging, but as you progress on your journey of data discovery, you inevitably end up asking more specific questions about your data and how it affects business decisions. Questions like: What […]
10 Questions for Data Viz Expert & Data Artist KK Molugu
I first became aware of KK about a year ago through his interesting Tableau Public visualizations and his activity on Twitter. Earlier this year, I was fortunate to speak with him at an event in Chicago and was able to spend 90 minutes eating lunch and chatting about data visualization, Tableau and data in general. […]
Thoughts on the 2015 Esri Developer Summit
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend my third Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, Calif. This is Esri’s third largest conference on their calendar, hosting 1,800 GIS professionals and developers. This is also their tenth Developer Summit, and they continue to find new and interesting ways to grow the already strong GIS development […]