Tableau: The Total Gym of Data Visualization
We’ve all seen an infomercial, and if you haven’t, you might as well take this as a cue to jump onto YouTube and ask for some of the best Infomercials ever made. For some inspiration, you can try...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Design Principles
There is a plethora of elements that go into a successful dashboard. Organizing these elements can be incredibly intimidating. So, how can we make the design process easy to understand and implement?...
View ArticleData What? Knowing Your Data Terms
It’s kind of hard keeping track of terms in the world of data. It seems like every time you turn around, there’s a new concept, idea, implementation, tool or even argument about data. To contribute to...
View ArticleOKC Thunder Reunites the OKC Tableau User Group
About two weeks ago, the Oklahoma City Thunder hosted the first meeting of the Oklahoma City Tableau User Group in nearly three years! Like many other user groups, regular meetings were put on hold...
View ArticleUnderstanding Tableau Accelerators
Out of the many new features launched in the Tableau ecosystem this year, I am particularly interested in the efforts surrounding Tableau Accelerators. Earlier this year, I attended a talk on Tableau...
View ArticleDynamic Zones in Tableau (or Hide and Show via Parameter)
When Tableau version 2022.3 was released, expectations for new features were quite low in the Tableau community. There were a lot of improvements for server and data related issues; but for the visual...
View ArticleData Deduplication Methods in Snowflake
We’ve all seen situations where, for whatever reason, we have more data than we need in a table and we want to deduplicate. There are plenty of reasons for this, from dodgy ingestion processes to...
View ArticleThe InterWorks Italian Takeover
The EMEA InterWorks team recently finished a long awaited, and most welcome, meet-up of InterWorkers from all across Europe! Planning for this trip with Andrea Thum and Sam Riley started back in July...
View ArticleExploring the SQL Pipeline features in Dataiku
In the modern analytics stack, data is constantly on the move. While all data originates somewhere, it typically must go somewhere else before it becomes valuable for the data...
View ArticleUsing Failover Groups to Migrate or Failover Between Snowflake Accounts
The purpose of this post is to step through the processes involved in setting up a new Snowflake account to replicate an existing one. There are several reasons to do this, the main two being: Fully...
View ArticlePYD118 – Catching Up with Journalist Alberto Cairo
In this episode of Podcast Your Data, analytics consultants Emily Miley and Jack Hulbert catch up with podcaster, professor, author and journalist Alberto Cairo for the third time on the PYD Podcast to...
View ArticleOklahoma State University Launches Spears Assist Powered by InterWorks
We’ve been sharing it to social media for a while now, but we thought it was high time we shared something on the blog to bolster a very exciting announcement that took place at the start of the 2022...
View ArticleInterWorks Blog Roundup — October 2022
Well, spooky season may have come and gone like a ghost in the night, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have fun while it was here. Parties, trick or treating and (probably) too much candy marked our...
View ArticleWhat a Designer Actually Does
What does it mean to be a (graphic) designer? You could ask a variety of people and get a whole slew of different answers to this. Heck, Debbie Millman even wrote a whole book that’s chalk full of...
View ArticleLost in Translation: The Importance of Developer/User Communication
I know the endoplasmic reticulum is a thing. I know the Inuit people have 50 words for snow. I couldn’t tell you what the endoplasmic reticulum does, nor do I know a single Inuit word for snow. But, to...
View ArticleDataWomen Event Recap: IEEE Mixer
On Friday 24 October, we were invited to an IEEE NSW Education Chapter and DataWomen university mixer where we had the privilege to talk to information technology students of all levels about all the...
View ArticleSQL Scripting in Snowflake
From its inception, Snowflake has always supported the ANSI standard version of the SQL language. As much as we may enjoy using SQL to manipulate data – how cool is it to write in a language based on...
View ArticleAutomatically Backup the SNOWFLAKE Shared Database with a Python Stored...
Every Snowflake account comes with a shared database called “SNOWFLAKE” which stores a fantastic amount of account-level and organisation-level information. Most notably, this shared database contains...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Python UDTFs in Snowflake
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...
View ArticleWhat Are Tableau Partner Certifications?
Tableau offers many different types of certifications open to anyone who wants to assess their skills in using or implementing Tableau. These are broken down into the following certification categories...
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