The 2014-2015 NHL Schedule Visualized in Tableau
It’s that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting cooler and the end of Daylight Savings Time is right around the corner. Essentially, for people like me, life is going to suck until summer comes back around. But, there is something to look forward to during the season of […]
Fun with Finances in Tableau: I Go to Starbucks Way too Often
Because I have just that much free time, I thought I’d take a gander at my spending so far this year using Tableau. The holiday shopping season is coming up, and I wanted to know if I would have any money left to fill stockings with something other than the lumps of coal my wayward […]
InterWorks Claims No. 6 Spot Among ‘Best Places to Work in Oklahoma’
Oklahoma City, Okla. – okc.BIZ and Best Companies Group released the 2014 “Best Places to Work in Oklahoma” rankings yesterday, and InterWorks claimed the No. 6 spot in the Small/Medium category. The program honors exemplary companies within the state of Oklahoma that provide employees with an excellent work environment. This is the fourth straight year […]
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Side-by-Side Bar Chart
To examine the side-by-side bar chart, let’s first take three rows of vertical bar charts. These represent sales volume by state and are divided into the three different departments of our fictional company. Figure 1: Vertical bar charts. That view is useful, true, but it has two primary deficiencies. First, it limits the comparison […]
Tableau Tuesday: How to Create a Top 10 and All Others Report
Client requests are sometimes the best way to think outside of the box with Tableau. Sometimes you ask yourself “WHY?” and shake your head. Other times, the requests force you to come up with a creative new solution within Tableau that you’ve never come across before. I recently had a request where the client […]
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Stacked Bar Chart
The stacked bar chart is great for adding another level of detail inside of a horizontal bar chart. You can do this by adding another dimension to your horizontal bar chart that will further divide the measure into sub-groups. The sub-groups are then color-coded on each bar as illustrated in the example below: Figure 1: […]
Create Next-Level Dashboards with Tableau and D3.js
Developing interactive web-based data visualizations used to involve long, frustrating hours of hammering out code and mutilating bugs that kept us awake at night. Those days are largely over thanks to tools like Tableau that are as simple as drag, drop and publish. There are still good reasons for the occasional late-night hackathon. Sometimes, you […]
Custom Polygons Made Easy with Drawing Tool for Tableau
The Drawing Tool has been incorporated into CBI Studio by InterWorks. Explore CBI Studio to see what’s new. We’re sure that many of you are familiar with Power Tools for Tableau by now. We’ve released two major tool sets, Workbook SDK and Workbook Tools, which make managing and editing Tableau workbooks easier than ever before. […]
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Horizontal Bar Chart
The horizontal bar chart is a bit of a misnomer, because simply switching the axes with the Swap button in the Tableau toolbar will magically make a horizontal bar chart into a vertical bar chart! That’s actually not the crux of this chart – it is simply that the measures are presented in a stand-alone bar. […]
InterWorks Presents: InnoTech Oklahoma 2014
As per usual, we’ve been pretty busy here at InterWorks lately. 2014 has brought record growth in the form of new clients, markets, events and dozens of new InterWorks team members across the world. Even though our reach is becoming increasingly global, our dedication to fostering the IT industry in our home state remains strong. […]