Tableau via PowerShell, Part 1: Opening Workbooks
In this mini-series I’m going to show you some cookbook style examples for using PowerShell to explore your Tableau workbooks. Follow along, this is going to be fun! Tableau workbooks (TWB files) are just XML files. Packaged workbooks (TWBX files) are just ZIP files that contain a TWB and various assets, like data extracts for […]
20-Minute Tableau Viz: Legal Medical Marijuana
I saw an interesting post and data set this morning from ProCon.org. The information was in tabular form, so I copied it and extracted the data into Tableau. 20 minutes later, I had a fully-interactive dashboard that presented the information relevant to me in a map. The map displays the year medical marijuana was legalized […]
jKal: Yet another jQuery datepicker plugin
jKal is a simple jQuery based datepicker plugin. I built this for a project with a very specific need, and felt it worked well enough that it might be of benefit to others. jKal Screenshot jKal works best when the date chosen does not have to go forwards or backwards more than a few […]
Proper Care and Feeding of Vertica (Part One)
(This is a multi-part series about the proper care & feeding of a Vertica cluster. There’s simply too much content for one post, so I’ll be splitting this up into a three-part series. Check back in a few days for the next installment.) Vertica is a very unique database platform, with a unique set of […]
Tableau Table Calculations and Reference Lines: Extending the Default Panes
Some fun Table Calculation questions came in this week. With four hours in the air heading home to New York from Portland, OR, I thought I’d quickly add these to the learning library. Here’s the first – I’ll put up another post with the second, which is a great extension on our Calendar Blog Post. […]
Tableau Online – Cloud-Based Tableau Server Hosting Now Available
Tableau Server is officially online. Users can now take advantage of their data from virtually anywhere with Tableau Online, a hosted (SaaS) version of Tableau Server. The benefits of a comprehensive, cloud-based business intelligence platform in Tableau Online are massive: Greater Access to Tableau Server With Tableau Online, you can perform full-scale data visualization from […]
InterWorks Named Silver Sponsor for HP Vertica Big Data Conference
InterWorks was recently named a Silver Sponsor for the inaugural HP Vertica Big Data Conference. The conference will address current challenges, upcoming trends and Vertica success stories in the Big Data Analytics field. Silver Sponsorship cements InterWorks’ status as one of HP Vertica’s most prominent solution partners. Much of InterWorks’ Business Intelligence Team and leadership […]
Microsoft Outlook – Exchange is unavailable, Outlook must be online or connected.
The Issue: I ran across an interesting issue today while setting up a new laptop in which I was getting an error while trying to add a new email account. During the process Outlook informed me that, “The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.” The […]
Big Changes in Vertica 6.1 SP2 (6.1.2)
About a month ago, HP Vertica released its latest service pack, HP Vertica 6.1 Service Pack 2 (version 6.1.2). It may sound like a small release, but the service pack actually includes a couple of major changes that could have a dramatic impact on the way you use Vertica. Enterprise Features Now Available in Community […]
Creating Email Notifications for Complete Tableau Extracts
Is your Tableau extract done? Don’t wait to find out! Send yourself (or a group) an email. If you haven’t already, make sure you’ve done this and this. Oh, and make sure you’ve got PowerShell v3 installed. Done? Perfect. Let’s get to the fun stuff. We’ll be using some PowerShell and, of course, Tableau. Imagine […]