March Madness – A Newbie on the Road with the Tableau 8 Tour
As a new employee of InterWorks, and a new disciple of Tableau, I had the pleasure of attending the Tableau 8 Tour events on the east coast in Washington D.C., Reston and Philadelphia, as well as the Texas events in Austin, Houston, and Dallas. The events are designed to showcase the new features of Tableau’s […]
Using Tableau 8 to Leverage Your ‘Big-ish’ Data
“Data for data’s sake is a path to disaster” As is so often the case, various colleagues, friends and random members of the data culture offer up ideas regarding the use of Tableau, data and design. Sure, some of these “Huh, I wonder if I can do that?” questions should stay that way; but, the […]
Tableau Q&A – Row-Level Security
Our business intelligence consultants are constantly engaged in tackling challenge after challenge. The individual capabilities of each are impressive enough, but what they accomplish together is what makes them such an effective team. We’ve decided to share some of the solutions they’ve created together in a new Tableau Q&A blog series. Challenge A question regarding […]
Microsoft Surface Pro – One Month Review
One Month Using the Microsoft Surface Pro I’ve been testing the Microsoft Surface Pro for about a month. I’ve had many coworkers and clients ask about its capabilities. I didn’t go to the trouble of weighing things (using a stop watch to test boot speed, etc.). This blog post is therefore subjective – from a […]
Closing Locked File on a Windows 2008 File Server
A common way to share files in a network is to use a file server, however when two users try to access the same file, that file will be locked to the second user. If that user was not available to request that the file be closed (say for example they went on vacation and […]
Tableau 8 is now available! We can upgrade your server for you.
Tableau 8 is out and we’re really excited. InterWorks Europe can help you with upgrading your server to the latest and greatest version of Tableau. With over 90 new features such as web authoring, Google Analytics and Salesforce.com connectivity and improved performance it’s the latest and best upgrade to Tableau. We’ve been beta testers of […]
Passing a Field From a Secondary Data Source With a URL Action in Tableau
In light of the Tableau 8 launch today, I decided it might be a great time to share one last tip for Tableau 7, for those who might not be upgrading right away. Here we go.All starts with a question: Can I use a URL action to pass a field from a secondary data source?Let’s […]
Enhanced Security in Tableau 8 – Applying User Filters to Data Sources
This week I had the pleasure of speaking in Boston at EACUBO with a friend and business associate, Ted Curran (Executive Director of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University). EACUBO aims to promote high-quality, professional development opportunities to higher education officers. This, year Ted and I had the opportunity to share how data analytics helped transformed […]
Unboxing Drupal 8: Forms and Views (part 3 of 3)
Earlier this week, we looked at changes in content editing for nodes and blocks. Today we’ll be looking at the implementation of forms and views modules in the core of Drupal 8 as well as drawing some overall conclusions. Built-in Contact Form The ‘Structure’ page contained another item that really caught my attention: Contact form. My […]
Running a Jekyll Blog Using Github Pages on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
In my last post I described installing Ruby on Mac OS X with RVM. The main reason I wanted to do this was to run a Jekyll Blog using GitHub Pages. So, in this post I will guide you through the process to get a GitHub Pages Blog up and going. 1. Installing Python and […]