What Happens When 30 Tableau Consultants Try ThoughtSpot for the First T...

May 19, 2023 Jack Hulbert | interworks.com

InterWorks just had our company summit a few weeks ago, and we had some hands-on training with ThoughtSpot. We are seeing so many clients who have multiple BI platforms and we want to know everything we can about how we can all get stronger in…The...

Data,liveboards,ProfessionalDevelopment,Tableau,ThoughtSpot

The BI Cantos Facilitating Data Culture

May 19, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

Environments that encourage learning, sharing and discovery will prosper. Environments that don’t will not achieve high performance. I snickered at this title when I first thought about it. How does one “create” a “data culture” exactly? Previousl...

Data,BI,culture,data,TheBICantos

Creating a RecordID that increases every x rows in Alteryx

May 18, 2023 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I encountered a puzzle that I was surprised I had not encountered sooner in training. I wanted to create a recordID that only increases every x rows.

Advanced,AuthorExperience,TechnicalFeatures,TipsTricks,UserExperience

The BI Cantos Setting the Stage for Predictive Analytics

May 18, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

Predictive analytics should not be part of your initial BI system deployment. When you have finished building the BI system workflows and data warehouse, you have established the foundations for predictive analytics. Predictive analytics uses mach...

Data,AI,BI,machinelearning,predictiveanalytics,TheBICantos

All About Enablement

May 18, 2023 Robby White | interworks.com

Usually with a modern data stack, a company will strive to have maximum user engagement, results-centered flows and content that brings value to its corporation. Now more than ever, software technologies can supply dozens, or even hundreds, of the...

Data,consulting,datastack,Enablement

Can you build a heat map with bathymetry lines

May 18, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

What??? That was the first thought that went through my mind when Luke set this challenge. Bathy..huh… ??? What’s that all about. Well read the challenge to find out more 🙂 The what?? was quickly followed by errr…..? The indicator on the challenge...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2023,BathymetryLines,CumulativePercentofTotal,DualAxis,Formatting,LAST,LOOKUP,ReferenceLines,ShowMissingValues,TableCalcs,week20

How to Set Up a Multi-Row Formula in Tableau Prep

May 17, 2023 Eric Parker | onenumber.biz

Tableau Prep is a powerful data preparation tool which allows you to do complex data transformation in a “no code” environment. No need to learn Python, SQL or R to shape your data.

TableauPrep

ThoughtSpot 101 5 Tips for Creating Really Good Worksheets

May 17, 2023 Jack Hulbert | interworks.com

Worksheets serve as the cornerstone of a curated, delightful search experience in ThoughtSpot. Worksheets allow ThoughtSpot developers to set contextual guardrails on your data model and create datasets that can be tailored to the needs of multipl...

Data,design,ThoughtSpot,Worksheets

The BI Cantos Measuring Return on Investment

May 17, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

How do you measure the hard and soft benefits? Some improvements are easy to measure because you can point to a singular discovery that led to improvement. People love showing others how their discovery improved efficiency or illuminated a previou...

Data,BI,ROI,TheBICantos

Violin Plots in Tableau

May 16, 2023 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is it?

ChartTypes,sankey,Tableau

The Importance of Maintaining Your IT Infrastructure

May 16, 2023 Marshall Roy | interworks.com

We get it, your workload is busier than ever. Between trouble tickets, meetings, projects, ongoing training goals and trying to squeeze in much needed PTO, there are hardly enough hours in the day to do all the things you need to do. Never has thi...

IT,Infrastructure,Maintenance

The BI Cantos Establishing a Center of Enablement

May 16, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

Most people call these support groups centers of excellence. “Center of Enablement” has a more helping vibe. The idea behind a CoE is to help your entire team obtain more knowledge and skill in: Data tools you’ve selected Extraction Loading Transf...

Data,BI,CenterofEnablement,CoE,TheBICantos

How Safe Are Your Backups 5 Ways to Better Protect Your Safety Net

May 16, 2023 Marshall Roy | interworks.com

In the world of IT, having backups are critical to a successful business continuity plan. Whether you are dealing with an accidentally deleted file or folder, a server going down, or a full scale ransomware attack, you are going to reach for your ...

IT,Backups,cybersecurity,data

Making a Control Chart using Sample Superstore

May 15, 2023 Zoe Reed | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A control chart adds additional insight to a traditional line graph via the addition of a reference band – for example highlighting a target range of sales, standard deviation or the interquartile range. This blog will walk through building a simp...

ChartTypes,sankey,Tableau

Jitterfly Chart

May 15, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

For the “TC23 Live Edition” challenge of #WOW2023, Lorna Brown prepared a special challenge for us, which requires, in addition to creating a Jitterfly chart, the use of some of the data preparation features provided directly by Tableau Desktop. C...

English,Index,Jitterfly,ReferenceBand,ReferenceLines

Grfico de Jitterfly

May 15, 2023 Rosario Gauna | rosariogaunag.wordpress.com

Para el desafío de “TC23 Live Edition” de #WOW2023, Lorna Brown nos preparó un desafío especial, que requiere además de la creación de un gráfico de Jitterfly, el utilizar algunas de las funcionalidades de preparación de datos que nos proporciona ...

Espaol,JitterflyReferenceLines,ReferenceBandIndex

How to Do Advanced Dynamic Zone Visibility in Tableau

May 15, 2023 Alyssa Huff | playfairdata.com

Released with version 2022.3, Dynamic Zone Visibility is a relatively new feature in Tableau. In a previous post, Playfair Data…The post How to Do Advanced Dynamic Zone Visibility in Tableau appeared first on Playfair Data.

Advanced,AuthorExperience,TechnicalFeatures,TipsTricks,UserExperience

The BI Cantos Establishing Data Culture

May 15, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

Establishing a business intelligence system creates the conditions for reliable data and high-quality information: disciplined maintenance, a framework of tools and ongoing training, all of which foster confidence and motivation. The Center of Ena...

Data,BI,culture,data,TheBICantos

Tiny Tableau Tips - Round 3

May 15, 2023 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

  This is my first day back to work after the 2023 Tableau Conference. For me, the Tableau Conference is all about community.  So for that reason, today I’m sharing another round (our 3rd round) of Tiny Tableau Tips from our incredible...

SeriesTips

Can you create a jitterfly chart

May 15, 2023 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

This week it’s the Tableau Conference edition – and as I was at #data23, I’m a bit delayed in getting the challenge and solution posted – too much going on and too much sleep to catch up on over the weekend 🙂 It was great to catch up with the #WOW...

WOW2023,WorkoutWednesday,DualAxis,INDEX,Jitter,NumberFormatting,ReferenceBand,ReferenceLines,Week19

LOADs of LODs

May 14, 2023 Nayeli Jaime | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Level of Detail calculations, also known as LODs, allow users to compute values at both the data source level and at the visualization level in Tableau. They allow users to perform complex calculations on data based on different levels of granular...

Espaol,JitterflyReferenceLines,ReferenceBandIndex

How to use Chat GPT inside Alteryx

May 14, 2023 Adrien Sourdille | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Introduction:

Espaol,JitterflyReferenceLines,ReferenceBandIndex

How to add custom shapes to your Tableau

May 14, 2023 Tanbir Jalil | www.thedataschool.co.uk

One great thing about Tableau is just how customizable it is to the user. Each user’s Tableau could be vastly different in terms of colours, color palettes, custom shapes and other user edited features.

Espaol,JitterflyReferenceLines,ReferenceBandIndex

Recharted Territory

May 12, 2023 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hey, welcome back to Charted Territory, or rather, Recharted Territory!!! Yes, I’m still proud of the pun, can you tell? 😛

Fundamentals,Storytelling,TipsTricks,UserExperience

Lets Change the Background on Our Maps

May 12, 2023 Nayeli Jaime | www.thedataschool.co.uk

We all love maps, they allow us to display geographical data in a way that’s easy to read while also providing the geographical context that’s needed to understand different types of datasets. We can implement symbols, colors, labels, legends, and...

Fundamentals,Storytelling,TipsTricks,UserExperience

AAPI Heritage Month Vizzes 12

May 12, 2023 Elaine Yuan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month; for this reason, I want to build Tableau vizzes celebrating AAPI culture, community, and accomplishments this month.

Fundamentals,Storytelling,TipsTricks,UserExperience

The BI Cantos Maintaining System Health

May 12, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

BI System maintenance is like a teenager’s bedroom—you should anticipate some challenges to maintain organization and reliability. Without discipline, the health and efficacy of your system won’t last. Establishing best practices for monitoring an...

Data,BI,consulting,Metadata,TheBICantos

Tableau Public Pilot Feature Sankey and Radial Charts

May 12, 2023 Ryan Alexander | interworks.com

This week’s blog is going to be a little different than the previous.  We will cover a “Pilot” feature which I know many others would really benefit from releasing in later release of both Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud. So, let’s say hello, alb...

Data,Dashboard,Radialchart,Sankey,Tableau

The BI Cantos Protecting Data and Making It Accessible

May 11, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

Security is a bad word in some companies because the IT guys don’t get rewarded for making data accessible. They do, however, get punished for data breaches. Those who have worked for a company that has experienced a data breach have an appreciati...

Data,BI,data,TheBICantos

InterWorks Blog Roundup April 2023

May 11, 2023 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

April showers bring may flowers, but what do may flowers bring? Pilgrims! Never figured out if I should be telling that joke in April or November for Thanksgiving, but I figure that it’s timely enough either way! We had some great blog content thi...

Data,IT,Snowflake,Tableau,TheBICantos,UCDD

How to Easily Export Your Tableau Dashboards With https://interworks.com...

May 11, 2023 Zack Cordeiro | interworks.com

If you’re a Tableau user looking to learn how to export your Tableau Dashboards hosted on Tableau Server to a PDF with just a simple click, then you’re in the right place.  Normally, Tableau Server allows you to export your dashboard as a PDF in…T...

Data,dashboards,exporting,Tableau

How Office 365 Can Help Startups Solve Common IT-Related Challenges

May 11, 2023 Kody Bradley | interworks.com

In recent years, Tulsa, Oklahoma has seen a boom in new economic development. New initiatives like Tulsa remote and businesses relocating from the east and west coasts have brought more startups and new business to Tulsa than ever before. Starting...

IT,Office365,startups,Tulsa

Squad Up! The 3 Types of Grouping in Tableau

May 10, 2023 Jessica Kwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Grouping can be useful for simplifying complex data, creating custom categories, and improving data visualization. Grouping in Tableau can be used as part of data preparation – to group values for incorrect spellings or group members of a team tog...

Data,BI,Milestones,TheBICantos

Dynamic Zone Zooming in 7 steps

May 10, 2023 Jan Kaiser | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Dynamic Zone Visibility in Tableau has brought many new possibilities. One of them is Dynamic Zone zooming.  Through interaction, zones expand and other zones disappear. This allows a lot of interactivity and gives the possibility to show addition...

Design

Consumer Goods RD with Automated Product Stability Forecasting

May 10, 2023 GÁBOR BEREI | medium.com

Consumers today are more educated than ever, which has driven a change in preferences towards, among others, increased transparency in ingredient sourcing, waste and product testing. This has led companies to seek new ways to stay competitive — on...

automation,consumer-goods,machine-learning,research-and-development,data-science

How to Build Dual Axis Charts in Tableau

May 10, 2023 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

Dual Axis charts are one of the most versatile chart types in Tableau. Technically, this is just a view that houses two measures with their independent axes.

Design

The BI Cantos Facilitating Ad Hoc and Mission-Critical Development

May 10, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

A system-wide data workflow for an analytical business information system is a high-level map of a BI System. Summarizing data movement from data sources through the ELT processes and, finally, the presentation layer. Figure 3.3.1 The Unified Data...

Data,BI,development,TheBICantos

Data Dictionary Within Tableau

May 9, 2023 Edward Hayter | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Throughout my time at the Data School I have certainly grown to appreciate a data dictionary explaining what some more cryptic field names actually mean. Today I found that we have the functionality within Tableau to build in a data dictionary int...

Data,BI,Milestones,TheBICantos

Charted Territory

May 9, 2023 Vivian Ng | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Note: I wrote this entry before learning how to create a measure switch, which is what I used instead when re-vizzing my application viz, so please be aware that while this blog is showing you how to do the chart switch, it’s not necessarily the b...

Data,BI,Milestones,TheBICantos

Buttons Using Set Actions

May 9, 2023 Jose De La Rosa | www.thedataschool.co.uk

When creating dashboards, sometimes you’ll want to add bottoms. A bottom can allow you to change a dimension, change the view of the graph, and set a specific value to see, and they can be applied to a field or a measure in a visualization.

Data,BI,Milestones,TheBICantos

The BI Cantos: Planning Milestone and Data Workflows

May 9, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

It’s impossible to graft a fixed number of data workflows onto every business, non-profit or government entity that is definitive. However, standard data workflows provide generalization and repeatable starting points. Typical Milestone Durations ...

Data,BI,Milestones,TheBICantos

How to build a Network Graph in Tableau, ft. Prepping Data to set up Net...

May 8, 2023 Hang Chen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

During Client Project #4, I attempted to create a Network graph to show the connections each entity points to. To set up the data set, one row should be the origin and the row following it should be the destination. Have one unique key to indicate...

data-engineering,cost,roi-calculator,cloud,cloud-computing

Find the Balance between Cloud Cost and Efficiency

May 8, 2023 Anjan Banerjee | medium.com

Photo by Aziz Acharki on UnsplashThe rapid advancements in technology and the increasing need for flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness have led many organizations to consider migrating their on-premises data platforms to the cloud and e...

data-engineering,cost,roi-calculator,cloud,cloud-computing

3 Ways to Wow Stakeholders with Figma

May 8, 2023 Zoya Zafar | playfairdata.com

When it comes to demonstrations, it goes without saying that you want your stakeholders to walk away “wowed.” But what…The post 3 Ways to Wow Stakeholders with Figma appeared first on Playfair Data.

Fundamentals,Storytelling,TipsTricks,UserExperience

The BI Cantos: Managing Licensing Expenses

May 8, 2023 Dan Murray | interworks.com

Licensing SaaS (software-as-a-service) products can be complicated. Every vendor wants to encourage commitment. Commitment comes in long-term contracts of one or more years, with better prices associated with longer commitments. Clients ask InterW...

Data,BI,SaaS,TheBICantos