10 Ways to Drive End-User Adoption of Tableau – Part 1
I often see Tableau developers fall into the “Field of Dreams” fallacy. With the perfect formula or the bar chart just right, they’ll have the perfect dashboard that everyone will want to use. We’re tempted to think, “build it and they will come.” That’s not really the case. The formula should be perfect, and the […]
The Future of Business Intelligence – 5 Things to Consider
Last week, I did a little ranting about data cubes and explained why I like Vertica. This week, I’m going to discuss the near future of business information systems and share some thoughts that you should consider before investing your time and capital. Data Sources Will Multiply I’ve personally counted over 190 commercially-available data and […]
Tableau Essentials – The Toolbar
The Toolbar Below is a screenshot of the Tableau worksheet interface connected to a generic Excel datasource (Orders). We will focus exclusively on the row of buttons just below the menu drop-downs at the top of the page – the Toolbar. Tableau often has multiple ways of completing a single task – drop-down menus, right-click […]
3 Reasons Why I Prefer HP Vertica
Since I did a little bashing of cube technology the other day, I suppose that I should explain why I also said that I prefer HP Vertica. Vertica Scales Using Tableau with Vertica is like peanut butter and jelly. They just go together. Why? When you are probing a sizable and granular data set, you […]
Webinar: Metric Insights & InterWorks – Push Intelligence for Tableau
InterWorks and Metric Insights recently put on an educational webinar about utilizing “Push Intelligence” for Tableau. The webinar was so well received that we decided to share for those of you who missed it. Steve Mock of Metric Insights and InterWorks’ own, Charlie Sanders shared several best practices pointers for those wanting to leverage Push […]
3 Reasons You Should Kill Your Data Cubes
A few weeks ago, I finished a speech at Netflix and got into a long discussion with a business information manager from a major technology company. This fellow asked me the best way to get value from Tableau with his data cubes. I told him to get rid of the data cubes and buy a […]
How I Went from Literature Nerd to InterWorks Operations Manager
My journey has taken me all over the country across a variety of different locations, fields, disciplines and positions. I haven’t always been in BI Operations, and the road that took me here has been an interesting one. My story is part of our ongoing “How I Went from _____ to InterWorks Consultant” blog series. […]
30 Seconds from SAS to TDE with Alteryx 9.0
Alteryx 9.0 was released back in April of this year and with it came a whole host of new features and tools. It’s party time in the datasource. There is a range of improvements from top to bottom, including the integration of Revolution Analytics Revo Scale R or the heat plot color map. It was […]
ATTR() – Tableau’s Attribute Function Explained
I have a love / hate relationship with the Attribute function in Tableau. I love it for what it does, I hate it for those times that someone asks me to describe what it does. It took me a long time to wrap my head around what ATTR() does in Tableau. The first stop in […]
Applying Dashboard Filters to Worksheets in Tableau
Would you like to use more than one view on a dashboard to filter data on a separate worksheet? There’s a solution for that which also prevents Tableau from automatically switching displays when selecting data on a dashboard view. Once you have created the worksheets you want to use as filters and the worksheet you […]
