Advance with Assist: Adding Field Names Above Bars on a Bar Chart
Question: I would like my users to see the product names above the bars in my bar chart instead of having them on the left of the bar to make it more presentable. How do I achieve this? By having the field name sitting above each bar, the presentation of your bar chart can be […]
Webinar-Wiedergabe – Dashboard-Templates – Fluch und Segen
Dashboard Templates, also vorgefertigte Dashboards mit festgelegtem Platz für Arbeitsblätter und Steuerelemente wie beispielsweise Filter, können Zeit sparen und bessere Ergebnisse liefern. Allerdings ist es dabei entscheidend, wie Du diese Vorlagen erstellst und verwendest. In diesem Webinar lernst Du: 1. was Dashboard-Templates sind und was für oder gegen sie spricht, 2. wie und wann Dashboard […]
Setting up Your dbt Environment
In our last post, we talked about the differences between dbt Cloud and dbt Core. Once you’ve decided which environment works best for your team, it’s time to start development. In this post, we’ll walk through some of the basic setup of dbt and briefly describe why each feature is important. Projects dbt projects are […]
Analytics in Digital Transformation with AWS
The year 2020 produced a mass migration of business processes, enterprise software and internal workloads to AWS in a way that was previously unseen. In the world of data, organizations relied on the flexibility of the cloud to run infrastructure, authentication and analytic workloads at scale across a new distributed workforce. Sharing information became paramount […]
2021 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
Welcome back to a 100% definitely nothing bad is going to happen year in professional football! Last year’s uncertainty didn’t seem to slow the commitment to Fantasy Football that grips the U.S., and I’ve already heard from many of you eager to draft soon due to the shortened preseason, so our annual update is ready! […]
Advance with Assist: Finding Max Date and More
Question: I have a need to determine my Current Opportunity amount and the change from whatever date was listed prior. It could be the previous week or several weeks ago. Any tips for figuring this out? The second requirement is that I need to aggregate to that week without showing the IDs. This is an […]
Hands-On Snowflake: How to Implement Row-Level Security Using Data Control Tables
Row-level security (RLS) is a data access control concept that pertains to dynamically restricting the rows of data that a certain user can access in a particular dataset. Over the course of my consulting career, I have encountered this business requirement on numerous occasions, such as the need to restrict personally identifiable information (PII) or […]
Working with Dates in Tableau: To-Date vs. Rolling Periods
A common question we field is how to create current period and prior period selections in Tableau to show % changes in periods. Popular periods include the To–Date family of Month to Date (MTD), Quarter to Date (QTD) and Year to Date (YTD). To-Date periods have a fixed starting point and provide a hindsight view […]
Upgrading Your Legacy Tableau Server
Tableau recently sent out an email to all customers letting them know that a version of Postgres that’s embedded within their Tableau Server product will no longer be actively maintained as of November 11, 2021. This means that if your Tableau Server is running any version prior to 2020.4, you will need to upgrade to […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2021
We made it another month and are excited to present the July roundup! Last month on the blog, we featured 20 different InterWorkers – including TWO new posts from our fearless leader, Behfar – and published 17 new content pieces aimed at empowering and equipping you in your journey with data and tech. We took […]