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InterWorks Blog Roundup – May 2022
Wow, this year sure is flying by. It seems like just yesterday that we were accidentally writing “2021” on the date line. For some of us, that was literally yesterday. No, I will not be naming any...
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Why I’m Excited for Snowflake Summit 2022
I thought I would step away from my usual style of blogs today. The vast majority of my blog posts in the past have been written to achieve a specific technical goal, and you can think of them as...
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What Makes Good Analytics: Approachable Language vs. Jargon
Acronyms and impenetrable language: we all know these tendencies aren’t helpful, so why can’t we stop acting on them? It’s a problem for us; it’s a problem for you. No matter what industry you work in,...
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An In-Depth Look at Using Joins in Analytics
Joins—they are happening everywhere. That’s actually a cool tagline! And it’s definitely true. I haven’t encountered a data warehouse, a data lake or a BI tool that didn’t include some sort of join...
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Reconnecting with Community: Back with a Vengeance
Above all, these COVID years have reinforced the value of in-person engagements. Not only do you have high-value, high-impact conversations, but it is fantastic to see other people and spend time with...
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What Makes Good Analytics: The Perfect Toolset for a Data-Intelligent Business
We are beginning to enter a golden age for business intelligence. We have been steadily moving in this direction for the 10+ years I have been involved in the industry, but until now, there always...
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Snowflake Summit 2022: Partner Presentations to Watch
Snowflake Summit has returned to an in-person event format, and we are excited to see everyone in Las Vegas! It has been a long time since we have seen everyone, and this year is poised to be a great...
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The Singapore Tableau User Group Reunites
The Singapore Tableau User Group got together last week after two years of not being able to physically meet in person due to COVID-19 restrictions. We were extremely excited to see familiar faces and...
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InterWorks Recognized as the 2022 Snowflake APJ Innovation Partner of the Year
2022 is shaping up to be a fantastic year for the InterWorks team, and we have another reason why: InterWorks was just named the 2022 Snowflake APJ Innovation Partner of the Year! This award recognizes...
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Highlights from Alteryx Inspire 2022
Conference season is in full swing, and the InterWorks crew has been attending numerous data and analytics conferences, getting up to speed on the latest developments from our partners. Case in point:...
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Webinar Replay: Data Prep for Really Good Analytics
A video replay for this webinar is available at the bottom of the blog. In this webinar, our analytics team covers what data prep looks like in a modern analytics stack and makes suggestions for a...
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Git Nested Branching with Squash
Bird nests? Tree limbs? Summer squash? There sure are a lot of plant, animal and food terms in that title. What are we talking about here, and how is it related to source code repositories? As the...
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Disposable Cloud Development Environments for dbt
Well, this turned out to be longer than anticipated. You know your blog’s too wordy when your TL;DR needs some abridgment (exaggerating!). If you are here just to get a quick glance at what Gitpod is,...
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What Makes Good Analytics: Vision and Direction
Vision and direction – top leadership needs to give a sense to everyone what has value, what has no value, what is the roadmap and how it should look. To arrive at these answers, Simon Sinek suggests...
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Load Multiple Tables into Snowflake with Two Matillion Tools
If you have spent any time working with data, you know that it’s rare when you only have a single table to move. While there are several ways to move tables around, I thought it might be a good idea to...
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Creating a Cross-Database Union in Tableau Desktop
Data in the real world is a lot messier than we’d imagine it to be. More often than not, working with data will involve multiple sources. For example, you might want to combine two tables, like sales...
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InterWorks Becomes a Matillion Global Platinum Partner
Our relationship with Matillion has been incredibly strong these past few years, and that relationship just reached new heights. We’re proud to announce that InterWorks is now a Matillion Global...
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Tableau 2022.2: Beta Testing the Data Stories Feature
We recently spent some time with the new Data Stories feature that’s part of Tableau 2022.2. In this post, I walk through that process and share the steps I took to explore the capabilities of the new...
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What Makes Good Analytics: Avoiding Data Pitfalls
At InterWorks, we spend a lot of time working in the intersection of sales teams and technical consulting. In practical terms, this means we’re interpreting and translating requirements—listening...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – June 2022
You can mark your calendars: we’re officially halfway done with 2022. We’ve been winding down the data conference season this month by attending Snowflake Summit 2022, Alteryx Inspire 2022 and the...
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