Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Area Charts (Continuous & Discrete)
The area chart is a combination between a line graph and a stacked bar chart. It shows relative proportions of totals or percentage relationships. By stacking the volume beneath the line, the chart shows the total of the fields as well as their relative size to each other. Consider the chart below in Figure 1: […]
Forwarding ShoreTel Voicemails to an Office 365 Mailbox
This article details the specific settings within the ShoreTel Server, SMTP Server and Office 365 portal for creating mail distribution groups for ShoreTel voicemails to be sent to Office 365 mailboxes. In ShoreTel Under Voice Mail – Options, set your email account: Set User Account in ShoreTel Under Escalation Profiles and Other Mailbox Options, change […]
Preparations / Network Architecture | DataGravity Discovery Series Part 3
Congratulations, by now you’ve hopefully decided to order, or have ordered an array. Here are some things to work through to get prepared. Network Connectivity For controller connectivity, you can choose between 10-GBASE-T over Cat6 cables or opt for SFP+ ports for flexibility. With SFP+, you can choose passive 2-pair TwinAx cables for a low-cost, […]
Tableau Viz: A Scatter Plot with a Twist – The Movement Plot
The Challenge Visualize movement from Date A to Date B with one dimension and two measures. More specifically, display how these measures interact with each other and affect the outcome or performance of the dimension over time. This problem was posed to me by one of the most awesome clients I’ve been working with lately, […]
InterWorks’ Cole Shelton Judges ‘MS in MIS Case Competition’ at OSU
On Oct. 31, InterWorks’ Director of Data Services, Cole Shelton, spent his morning judging the annual “MS in MIS Case Competition” at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Cole and several other technology experts gathered at the OSU Student Union to examine several business cases presented by graduate students of the Management Information Systems program […]
Veeam 8 vs. Veeam 7: Backup Jobs
This is the first post in an ongoing series that compares new and improved features in Veeam 8 to those in Veeam 7. This article highlights the differences between backup jobs in the two versions. You can find all posts within this series on our Veeam 8 vs. Veeam 7 channel. To view a list of changes […]
Designing a Classic Timeline in Tableau
Typical day-to-day analysis is focused on things that have happened in recent days, months or years. We seldom go far enough into the past to make us think about what to do with dates prior to “date zero” (normally, January 1, 1900). That is unless you’re a paleontologist, history teacher or anyone else who may […]
2014 Midterm Elections Visualized in Tableau: House of Representatives
On election night every two years, major news organization compete for the best presentation of vote results. Data consumers are particularly drawn to red and blue colored maps. In recent years, there have been some impressive variations on mapping techniques, many of them aimed at presenting winners in ways that don’t distort our perception. The […]
2014 Midterm Elections Visualized in Tableau: House of Representatives
On election night every two years, major news organization compete for the best presentation of vote results. Data consumers are particularly drawn to red and blue colored maps. In recent years, there have been some impressive variations on mapping techniques, many of them aimed at presenting winners in ways that don’t distort our perception. The […]
My Speaker Idol Talk from SQL PASS Summit 2014
Tim Costello shares his Speaker Idol talk from SQL PASS Summit 2014. Speaker Idol is a speaking contest among 12 of the sharpest SQL minds in the industry. Whoever gives the best presentation wins. The prize is a speaking spot at next year’s summit. “If you can’t describe it to your grandmother, you don’t fully […]