What’s new in Tableau Server 9.0
Firstly, for all those still on Windows Server 2003 (you know who you are), it’s time to finally upgrade as Tableau Server 9.0 won’t run on this OS. New User Interface The first thing that you will notice when connecting to the Tableau 9.0 server is the new user interface. The login screen now has […]
Using Excel to Generate Tabcmd Syntax
This post builds off of two great previous posts about Tabcmd by Kate Treadwell and Tanner Ladd. Please refer back to these posts if you have questions about setting up Tabcmd and distributing PDFs. The goal of this post is to show you how to use Excel to generate the syntax to export PDFs from […]
10 Questions for Tableau Picasso George Gorczynski
A couple of months ago I did a speech in Vancouver, BC, and had the good fortune of getting to have dinner with Kelly Martin (Tableau Zen Master) and another amazing Tableau expert: George Gorczynski. George has an outstanding Tableau blog called Tableau Picasso. The posts he does are intelligent and artistic. The Questions Q: […]
Let’s Math It Out in Tableau!
We’ve kicked off 2015 with answers to some of our most commonly asked questions. Another problem that appears involves a simple piece of functionality – totals. We know that Tableau can create totals for us through the Analysis menu. In Tableau 8.1, a new feature called Two Pass Totals was released. These totals can be […]
Tableau Level of Detail Calculated Fields v9
In this tutorial I talk about the Tableau Level of Detail calculations {fixed}, {include} and {exclude} which are new in Tableau Version 9. We see how {fixed} can be used to turn a measure into bands and give it the full functionality of a dimension. This functionality is something that we are regularly asked for […]
Quora Question: ‘What Data Viz/Dashboard Software Should I Use?’
Last week, a user on Quora asked a question about which data visualization platform he should use. I decided to take a little time to provide a detailed answer. The Question What Data Viz/Dashboard Software Should I Use? I’m looking for a software or service that lets me do the following: Create graphs and geo […]
A Neutral View of Super Bowl XLIX Visualized in Tableau
Super Bowl XLIX is almost here. In just a few days, the New England Patriots will take on the Seattle Seahawks in Glendale, AZ. Will the Seahawks win their second Super Bowl in a row, which would also be their second Super Bowl victory ever, or will the Patriots win their fourth Super Bowl in […]
Creating calculated fields in Tableau 9.0
Over the last few weeks, we at InterWorks have been putting the Tableau Desktop 9.0 beta through its paces and have already showcased some of the newly introduced features in this blog series. We hope you’ve been enjoying them; today I’ll be talking through one of my favourites. Even though it may not seem like […]
Tableau 9.0 Brings us more connections!
Earlier this week you heard from Kevin, talking about the new user interface enhancements in Tableau Desktop 9. Today, I will be introducing the new data connections that now come as standard within Tableau 9.0 In Tableau Desktop 9.0, there have been some fantastic UI improvements that Tableau have made which every user will notice as […]
10 Questions for Tableau Zen Master Andy Kriebel
I met Tableau Zen Master Andy Kriebel at the first Tableau Customer Conference (2008) at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle. Andy and I happened to sit next to each other at a meal, and we discovered that we both lived in Atlanta. Later that year, we started the first Tableau User Group in the world […]