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My Top Five Tableau Prep Solutions
Tableau Prep has tons of options, and you may have seen gurus pull off some truly fantastic tricks. But what should you focus on? Drawing from my work as a consultant and doing on-demand support via...
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dbt Coalesce 2021 in Review
Wow! What a great conference dbt put on this month. The conference gave us great insights into some work a few dbt enthusiasts are working on. Let’s dive into some of my favorite topics covered during...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – December 2021
Hello, 2022! Another year is here, and we’re excited to discover all of the new changes and innovations it will bring. Our last month on the blog featured 15 new posts and 16 contributors and covered...
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An Introduction to Natural Language: Why Practitioners Should Care
In this blog, we are going to talk about natural language; a subset of linguistics that has helped us develop rules and methods that allow patterns in our language to be interpreted, classified and...
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Options for Row-Level Security in Tableau
Now that you know you need Row-Level Security (RLS) and you are familiar with the basic concepts and building blocks, we can take a deeper look at the different RLS models we can build within Tableau....
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Tableau 2021.4 New Feature: Copy and Paste
Finally, it has arrived: the ability to copy and paste in Tableau. Some things are just worth waiting for. Okay, so maybe I’m a bit of a nerd, but this one has felt like waiting for the latest James...
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Manipulating dbt Files with Shell Scripts
If you’re working with a bunch of sources within your dbt project, maintaining a single-source file (or even a couple) can quickly become cumbersome to manage, especially if you have multiple people...
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The New Features of Tableau 2021.4
Tableau version 2021.4 was released in December, and there are plenty of new features making our lives as Tableau users easier. The new release has a strong focus on expanding Tableau’s ecosystem...
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Using Slack for Error Alerts in Your Data Pipeline
Any data pipeline will fail from time to time. Errors can come from hardware failures, networking issues or simple bugs. Sometimes, an error can occur because somebody forgot to update a password or...
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Introducing CBI Studio from InterWorks
It’s bold. It’s brash. It’s back. InterWorks’ legendary Drawing Tool has been upgraded. Meet Custom Background Image Studio, also known as CBI Studio. CBI Studio builds out and completes the creative...
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Get to Know pdb, the Python Debugger
While my day-to-day is spent working within Curator’s PHP platform, my favorite programming language is Python. I used it daily in a previous life after learning it on the job nearly two decades ago....
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Dynamically Adding & Removing Columns with a Collapsible Menu in Tableau
At InterWorks, we believe data shouldn’t be limited to only those who can write their own SQL queries; everyone should be able to explore and ask questions about their data with flexible and intuitive...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – January 2022
The first month of a new year is in the books! In January, we published 12 new blogs with tons of tips to help you set the stage for a successful 2022. In this blog roundup, you’ll find resources from...
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Webinar Replay: Tableau Dashboard Design Tips for 2022
Tableau dashboards are a beautiful blend of technical proficiency and clever visual design. They can be used to show highly complex data in simple yet pleasing ways that can’t be found anywhere else....
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Virtual Connections and Data Policies in Tableau Server
The Tableau Data Management Add-on provides a useful set of tools to help manage content and data assets on Tableau Server. The newly released version, 2021.4, introduces new ways to manage data...
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Advance with Assist: Using Map Layers with Unconnected Data Sources
Question: How do I use the new map layers feature without having to join, blend or use relationships to connect my data? The answer to this question varies based on which version of Tableau you’re...
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Connect to Unix/Linux over SSH via Matillion Bash Component
Matillion is a versatile ELT tool. It has many connectors to numerous data sources already at our disposal, but sometimes a situation arises when your use case is a little bit different than just data...
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Viz for Social Good: Build up Nepal
Visualizations can serve different purposes. Whether it’s business reporting, sharing production status or providing a research summary, there are endless applications for dashboards, but they all have...
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InterWorks’ Onboarding and the Counterculture
For my first blog post, I figured I’d share something personal about myself. I have an extreme affinity—nay, even a love—for what I dub the “counterculture.” I am, by almost all definitions, a hipster....
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Use Cases with KPIs: New Possibilities with Tableau Map Layers
Layers have brought many new possibilities to Tableau. Previously, my colleague Rowan described in detail how to use layers with maps, which was the main intention behind this feature. However, I...
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