What Will BI Look Like in 5 Years?
I have an ongoing reel playing in my mind about the future of business intelligence that I’d like to share with you all. It’s a dream about the future that I’ve been having since I first started using Tableau in 2007. The dream looks like this: The vision is an ecosystem of tools that allow […]
2014 LSU College Football Preview Visualized in Tableau
If you’re a sports fan like me, the next few weeks can seem like an eternity. The World Cup and NBA Finals are over, and the baseball playoffs have not yet started. Thus, we are left with three long weeks of waiting for the college football season to arrive. This year, instead of playing season […]
Professional Golfing: Does Age Matter?
With the PGA Championship wrapping up another year of Major Golf Tournaments and the very young Rory McIlroy dominating the field, it occurred to me to ask: “Is winning a major only for the young players?” Also, despite Tiger Woods’ recent back surgery and sudden exit from the Bridgestone Invitational, is Tiger’s age prohibitive to […]
How to Configure VMware vShield Manager and vShield Endpoint
When deploying a virtualized desktop environment, virtual machines are deployed from a golden template. This allows the management from a central image that is shared across a group of virtual machines. If a traditional anti-virus solution were to be deployed in a virtual desktop environment (VDI), there is a lot of redundancy when scanning a […]
InterWorks Joins Tableau for the EU Tableau 8.2 Roadshow
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. InterWorks joins Tableau yet again on their latest major tour, the Tableau 8.2 Roadshow, where you are invited to see all of the amazing new features and capabilities of Tableau 8.2. The InterWorks team has covered each new feature in detail: Better Data Connections […]
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Highlight Table
The highlight table allows us to apply conditional formatting to a view. Tableau will automatically apply a color scheme in either a continuous or stepped array of colors from highest to lowest. It is great for comparing a field’s values within a row or column. In the example below (Figure 1), I’ve taken select countries […]
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – Heat Map
To take a more visual approach to showing data than we might typically see in a crosstab, let’s consider a heat map. A heat map is a great way to compare categories using color and size. In this, you can compare two different measures. In the example below (Figure 1), I have created a heat […]
How to Deploy OVA / OVF Template Using VMware vSphere Desktop Client
As virtualization continues to grow in popularity, many vendors are now creating easy-to-deploy virtual appliances for their products. Virtual appliances can be deployed by deploying an open virtualization format template (OVF Template), which is typically distributed as an OVA package. This article explains how to deploy an OVF Template in VMware via the vSphere Desktop […]
Exporting a Policy from Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager
When deploying the Symantec Security Virtual Appliance on an ESXi host, one of the requirements for installation is you must have access to the sylink.xml file. This file configures communication with Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Server. This article provides instructions on how to export those settings. This article is the fourth part of a series […]
Tableau Essentials: Chart Types – The Text Table
The text table (also known as a crosstab) is essentially the same view you would see from an Excel data source or by clicking the View Data button in the Sidebar. The mark type is text, and the data is organized simply into rows and columns. Figure 1: Text table. While text tables are applicable […]