Webinar Replay: Telling Great Stories with Data

Nov 3, 2021 InterWorks | interworks.com

Great dashboards start with great stories, but how much do we think about that story before we open up Tableau or PowerPoint? Many of us are guilty of dashboarding without purpose, which can limit the impact of what we produce. So, in this webinar...

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A History of Tableau Conferences at InterWorks

Nov 3, 2021 Jenny Parnell | interworks.com

There are pivotal projects in our careers that help set our paths towards doing cool work. For me, as someone in marketing, the Tableau Conference has been that catalyst. I started at InterWorks over 10 years ago with no marketing or trade show ex...

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Step by step guide on how to publish your workbook to Tableau Server

Nov 2, 2021 Marius Nikiforovas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Want to learn how to publish your workbook to Tableau Server? Here is a step by step guide that navigates you through the process.

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Using AWS SageMaker to Set Up a Production ML Pipeline: Part 2

Nov 2, 2021 Christina Bernard | www.tessellationtech.io

Using AWS SageMaker to Set Up a Production ML Pipeline: Part 2 As we continue this series, we look to understand how AWS can be used to set up production pipelines. This all with using only AWS for the set … Read MoreThe post Using AWS SageMaker t...

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Switching your Dimensions and Measures using Parameters in Tableau

Nov 1, 2021 Carlo Sanzeri | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In the DS27 cohort, we are on our second week using Tableau, and earlier thisweek we had an afternoon crash course on using parameters effectively by Lorna.In this post, I will cover one of the simple yet effective ways you can useparameters to gi...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Using R in Tableau

Nov 1, 2021 Analytics Events | www.tessellationtech.io

Learn the basics of connecting Tableau Desktop to R via Analytics Extensions: from showing some basic diagnostics to building a statistical model. … Read MoreThe post A Beginner’s Guide to Using R in Tableau appeared first on Tessellation.

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InterWorks Blog Roundup – October 2021

Nov 1, 2021 Andrea Avey | interworks.com

Spooky season has come and gone, but you can rest assured you’ll find nothing but treats here! October on the blog saw 17 new blog posts with contributions from over 20 InterWorkers, kicking off the final quarter of 2021 strong. We have lots of re...

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Visualising Floor Plan Data in Tableau

Oct 31, 2021 datavis.blog | datavis.blog

This post explains how you can use background images with conditions in Tableau to visualise data on different floors of a building. Floor plan images and data update dynamically.

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Tableau Features - False Highlight and False Filter #Tableau

Oct 29, 2021 Jesus Esquivel Roman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Do you find it annoying that when you click on a point or chart in Tableau everything else is greyed out? This blog describes how to solve this issue.

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Tableau Dashboard - How to Properly Use Containers in Dashboards #Tableau

Oct 29, 2021 Jesus Esquivel Roman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog describes how to properly use of containers in dashboards to improve your visualisation style and clarity

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Quick Tip - Context Filters in Tableau

Oct 29, 2021 Carlo Sanzeri | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When beginning my training at the Data School, there was one aspect that jumpedout to me when thinking about showing the correct data in your viz. This aspectis context filters.

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How To Split Data into Quintiles using Tableau

Oct 29, 2021 Matty Sweet | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this post I will go through how to divide a dataset into quintile intervals,ranked according to a particular numeric field. In the same way the mediandivides a dataset into two by finding the middle value when ranked according tosome field, qui...

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Alteryx Macros - How to build an Iterative Macro in Alteryx

Oct 29, 2021 Jesus Esquivel Roman | www.thedataschool.co.uk

This blog outlines how to create an iterative macro using Alteryx Challenge #12 as an example for guidance

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How to Create a Date Table from Scratch in Power BI

Oct 29, 2021 Gavin Pedersen | www.tessellationtech.io

How to Create a Date Table from Scratch in Power BI As Power BI developers we can never have too many ways of getting a date table into our data model. That said, let’s explore yet another way to do … Read MoreThe post How to Create a Date Table f...

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How do you colour values that are below average using the WINDOW_AVG fun...

Oct 28, 2021 Marius Nikiforovas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Learn how to use the WINDOW_AVG function to colour values that are below or above the average.

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Parameter Actions to Change Date Ranges in Tableau

Oct 28, 2021 Jacob Blizzard | www.tessellationtech.io

Parameter Actions to Change Date Ranges in Tableau One key data filter for almost any Tableau dashboard is to be able to filter by date ranges to see how metrics change over time. Business users are typically given a lot … Read MoreThe post Parame...

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How to Build a Market Depth Chart (Canyon Chart) in Tableau

Oct 28, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

So you want to build a market depth chart in Tableau. huh? Let’s start by quickly defining the purpose of a market depth chart and then we’ll look at the steps for how to build one in Tableau.

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Filtering Table Calcs

Oct 28, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

It was Sean Miller’s turn this week to set the challenge, which had an added twist – to complete only using the web authoring feature in Tableau Public, something I’d never tried before. Most challenges use a version of Superstore Sales which I us...

Where Programming and Creativity Meet: Marshall Shelton’s Journey to Tes...

Oct 27, 2021 Marshall Shelton | www.tessellationtech.io

Learn how a change of college majors lead Marshall Shelton down a path towards becoming a data analytics consultant at Tessellation. … Read MoreThe post Where Programming and Creativity Meet: Marshall Shelton’s Journey to Tessellation appeared fir...

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Intro to Numeric Configuration of Privileges in Linux

Oct 27, 2021 Chris Hastie | interworks.com

There are several ways to set permissions on folders in a Linux machine. Many Linux experts with far more knowledge than myself have already created tons of online resources to discuss this topic, so this is just a quick overview of configuring pr...

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How to add labels to the end of the lines? | Line and bump charts

Oct 26, 2021 Marius Nikiforovas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Learn how to label the ends of the lines on single or dual-axis charts, match the mark colours and adjust the position of your labels.

Culture,culture,Marketing,teammeetup

An introduction to user functions in Tableau

Oct 26, 2021 Isabel Cooper | www.thedataschool.co.uk

An introduction to User functions in Tableau, and how they can be used to add viewing restrictions to your dashboards.

Culture,culture,Marketing,teammeetup

Real Fun with Real Friends: The InterWorks’ Marketing Team Meetup

Oct 26, 2021 Andrea Avey | interworks.com

Squirrels. Softball. Shattered watches. Pad Thai. What do all of these things have in common? They were a part of our recent stateside Marketing Team meetup, obviously. In light of the changing nature of work, ongoing questions around public healt...

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Using parameters to select different measures

Oct 25, 2021 Edoardo Aversa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In Tableau, parameters are a great way of visualising selected values of a given dimension (or measure). However, what if we want a parameter to choose between two or more measures (e.g. sales and profit) and not between the values of a single dim...

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DS27 Training Blog - Week 3

Oct 25, 2021 Tom Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Time is flying by and DS27 have already completed three weeks of training.

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An Introduction to Macros in Alteryx

Oct 25, 2021 Carlo Sanzeri | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Last week was my cohorts second week of Alteryx training, and on the same weekwe took the Alteryx Core Certification Exam, we were also introduced to thewonderful world of macros. I say the ‘wonderful world’ as when learning aboutMacros you realis...

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Live Stream – Data Preparation Best Practices: How to Optimize Your Data...

Oct 25, 2021 Analytics Events | www.tessellationtech.io

Learn the importance of implementing data preparation best practices and become an advocate for the importance and prioritization of tackling your backlog. … Read MoreThe post Live Stream – Data Preparation Best Practices: How to Optimize Your Dat...

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PIE/DONUT CHART & THE TOP N

Oct 25, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

The challenges of the last two weeks of #WOW (week 41 and week 42) involved building the pie/donut chart type to represent the Top N sales percentage. Week 41: Outer part of the circle: Show the proportion of the sales of each of the Sub-Categorie...

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GRAFICO DE PIE/DONUT & TOP N

Oct 25, 2021 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Los desafíos de las dos últimas semanas de #WOW (semana 41 y semana 42) involucraron la construcción del tipo de gráfico donut/pie para representar el porcentaje de ventas del Top N. Semana 41: Parte exterior del círculo:  Mostrar la proporción de...

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Guest Blog Post: This is Pink Floyd - Remastered

Oct 25, 2021 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 The following is a guest blog post from Nir Smilga. Nir is a Data visualization and Tableau implementation lead  at Zoominfo in Israel. He likes to viz also as a hobby, is a Tableau Featured author and has three VOTDs (2 of them are m...

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Sparkline Charts in Tableau

Oct 23, 2021 Lemis Tufail | www.thedataschool.co.uk

First and foremost, what exactly is a sparkline chart? A sparkline chart is aseries of small line graphs that show the general trend in a dataset. They areoften useful for comparing trends within groups.

Tableau + Python – Going Outside of the Box

Oct 22, 2021 Toan Hoang | tableau.toanhoang.com

Aidan Moore reached out to me a few months ago as he wanted to show me something interesting in Tableau, I am always up for seeing something interesting, but what Aidan showed me really got me thinking as to why this is technique is more widely us...

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How to Combine Multiple Date Levels in One Sheet

Oct 22, 2021 Autumn Battani | www.tessellationtech.io

How to Combine Multiple Date Levels in One Sheet I was talking to a coworker about their project and they mentioned they needed to recreate an Excel table in Tableau. This is a pretty common ask but can be deceptively … Read MoreThe post How to Co...

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The Hidden Gems of Tableau Desktop 2021.3

Oct 22, 2021 Sebastian Deptalla | interworks.com

The summer update of the Tableau platform has given us a few new features for Tableau Server, as well as for Tableau Desktop. Let’s have a look at what was released: Notification Integration with Slack: Notifications for alerts, @mentions and shar...

Data,2021.3,desktop,newfeatures,Tableau

Easily Turn a Tableau Group into a Calculated Field

Oct 21, 2021 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Groups are an incredible feature in Tableau, but they are limited. For instance, you can’t leverage a group for a blend or cross-database join.

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InterWorker Brittany Dunn Inducted into Splash Field Marketer’s Hall of ...

Oct 21, 2021 Andrea Avey | interworks.com

We are so excited to announce yet another esteemed award for a member of our team! Brittany Dunn, InterWorks’ Partner Marketing Manager, was recently inducted into the Splash Field Marketer’s Hall of Fame. Splash is an innovative event marketing p...

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Can you use set actions to create a reference date range?

Oct 21, 2021 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

There’s a lot packed into the challenge this week, which was “set” by Lorna Brown and Erica Hughes to test our Set Action skills. How detailed this blog will go, I have yet to decide… I’ve got a couple of hours to get this nailed, so it could get ...

Project Management: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned

Oct 20, 2021 Hannah Murphy | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A reflection on my first experience as a Project Manager and my own ideas on what works well and what I should have done.

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3 Step Tutorial: Implementing Dynamic and Flexible Date Picker in Tableau

Oct 20, 2021 Jennifer Hunter | www.tessellationtech.io

3 Step Tutorial: Implementing Dynamic and Flexible Date Picker in Tableau This post was inspired by frequent client requests to have a menu of quick date presets like the one you see on left below. Why is the list so … Read MoreThe post 3 Step Tut...

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What does the first week of Data School look like?

Oct 19, 2021 Marius Nikiforovas | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Tips and suggestions on how to make the most out of your first week in the Data School. Based on the data schooler’s experience.

Dashboards,Tableau,Technical,Tutorial,ExcelforTableau,formatting,tableau

How to build a Bar in Bar Chart in Tableau

Oct 19, 2021 Tom Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Follow this step-by-step guide if you are looking to build a Bar in Bar Chart in Tableau.

Dashboards,Tableau,Technical,Tutorial,ExcelforTableau,formatting,tableau

DS27 Training Blog - Week 2

Oct 18, 2021 Tom Smith | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A summary of my second week at the Data School.

Dashboards,Tableau,Technical,Tutorial,ExcelforTableau,formatting,tableau

How to Integrate Pagination in Tableau: Part 1

Oct 18, 2021 Autumn Battani | www.tessellationtech.io

How to Integrate Pagination in Tableau: Part 1 You can build all the beautiful charts in the world but sometimes it’s something as simple as a table that’s going to fit the client’s needs. However, if you’re dealing with a … Read MoreThe post How ...

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InterWorks Partners with Dremio to Power Interactive Analytics on Data L...

Oct 18, 2021 Garrett Sauls | interworks.com

We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks is officially joining Dremio’s Global Partner Network! Dremio is an exciting company with the aim of enabling high-performing business intelligence dashboards and interactive analytics directly on the dat...

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5 Reasons to Use a Calendar Table (Date Dimension) in Tableau

Oct 18, 2021 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 In this blog, I’ll be making an argument for the increased usage of something I’ll refer to as a calendar table. These tables—referred to as a date dimension in data warehousing vernacular—have long been used in data warehouses, so it...

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