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Tableau Relationships: Extracts
The new data model brought us the Logical Layer, from which we can draw specific tables without being forced to load the data from all the related tables. Remember, with traditional joins, all sheets...
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Upserting Data in Matillion
In my last blog, I showed you how to iterate through a variable to bring multiple tables into the raw layer of your data warehouse. Today, I’m going to build on that concept by creating a DIM table and...
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Tableau Relationships: Performance – A Few Introductions
From here on out (at least for a few posts), we will have a look into the Performance Options of Relationships that are shown when we design a relation between two tables. If you have no idea what I am...
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Tableau Relationships: Performance – Speed and Cardinality
It may happen that we work with really big tables that are not just a few rows but millions or even billions of rows. Tableau’s VizQL’s SQL (what a beginning of a sentence!) has to query all these...
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Soft Skills for Consultants
If you google, “skills every consultant should have,” you’ll get pages and pages of articles online listing out key skills for consultants. Communication! Leadership! Problem-solving! It’s a dizzying...
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Investigating Snowflake Connectivity Issues with SnowCD
Snowflake have developed a simple command line tool that can be used to investigate snowflake connectivity issues. This tool’s full name is the Snowflake Connectivity Diagnostic Tool, however it is...
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Tableau Relationships: Performance – Joins and Referential Integrity
Now, let’s look into the second part of the Performance Options: Referential Integrity. What a daunting phrase! Sounds scary, but it’s actually simpler than the Cardinality. With this option, we tell...
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2022 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
Last year’s Fantasy Football saw some wild rides, with early favorite Christian McCaffrey injured early and Cooper Kupp going absolutely HAM in PPR especially. COVID didn’t impact the season as much as...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup — August 2022
Fun trivia fact about August you probably learned at school: the month was named after the Roman Emperor Augustus by, well, himself! Actually, all of the English language month names are carried over...
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Are You Younger Than 50? Then Invest.
The Introduction I picked this topic to blog about for two reasons. The most important reason is because it’s one of my biggest hobbies. I love to invest, research companies and explore the data...
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Webinar Replay: Redesign the Analytics Experience with Curator
A video replay for this webinar is available at the bottom of the blog. A lot of analytics tools are fantastic at visualizing data, but they don’t really have a good solution for presenting that data...
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A Definitive Guide to Snowflake Sessions with Snowpark for Python
Snowpark for Python is the name for the new Python functionality integration that Snowflake has recently developed. At the Snowflake Summit in June 2022, Snowpark for Python was officially released...
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A Definitive Guide to Creating Python UDFs in Snowflake using Snowpark
Snowpark for Python is the name for the new Python functionality integration that Snowflake has recently developed. At the Snowflake Summit in June 2022, Snowpark for Python was officially released...
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AI and ML for All: A Look at InterWorks’ Go! Dataiku Webinars
Have you wondered how you can venture into the land of data science without being a data scientist? Most of us get intimidated with this idea of writing thousands of lines of code to build a machine...
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Tableau Relationships: Performance – Breaking the Cardinality
Let’s go deeper and see what happens when we break the cardinality, or in other words, use it in a way it’s not designed for. Also, it helps to understand everything a bit better. For those looking for...
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Alteryx Up in the Clouds
A first look at Alteryx Designer Cloud powered by Trifacta. As an Alteryx (Designer) user like me, you have probably heard of Alteryx Designer Cloud powered by Trifacta. If you want to know more about...
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Introducing the Tableau Upgrade Feature Tool Dashboard
Comparing Upgrades for Different Versions of Tableau I’ve built a Tableau dashboard here to help see the new features between your existing Tableau version and potential planned upgrades. It also...
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Books for Your Business: The Phoenix Project
I don’t know about you, but I love to read. I read for pleasure but, more relevantly to this series, I also read to learn. This is why I have decided to start a new series, “Books for Your Business.” I...
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Creating MD5 Hash Keys in Snowflake via Matillion
In my last blog, I discussed how to do an Upsert in Snowflake using Matillion. Using the same workflow, I will discuss how we got the key value using the MD5 hash functionality available in Snowflake...
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Exploring Football Transfer Window Spending with Tableau
If we cast our minds back to April 2021, fans of football around Europe came together to squash the proposed “European Super League” idea, which would see a select few teams played against each other...
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