InterWorks Blog Roundup — May 2023
If you’re reading this, that means you survived Conference Season. Congratulations! If you joined ThoughtSpot online or Tableau in Las Vegas, you probably saw us either hanging around our booth or...
View ArticleData Analysts of the Future: The Skills Desperately Needed in an...
As the professional equivalent of a monkey with a typewriter, I have been watching the news about AI chatbots with both wonder and an ever-present, underlying fear that I will soon be replaced by our...
View ArticleThe Cody Ehlers Baseball Project
One amazing thing about InterWorks’ people is that we all come from very diverse backgrounds. Though we all ended up here working with data, some of us have taken an interesting path to get here. Cody...
View ArticleBuilding a Tableau Dashboard for National Donut Day
I heard a week or so ago that National Donut Day was coming up, and it sparked my curiosity about donut day, leading to many long study sessions about everyone’s favorite ring-shaped pastry. I figured...
View ArticleSay Less: How To Ensure Your Tooltips Add Value
We’ve all done it. We’ve completely ignored the warning label. You know, the one we probably see everyday: CAUTION: Contents Hot We ignore it because it’s understood. We just ordered hot coffee or...
View ArticleUsing VMware’s Avi for Horizon Load Balancing
If your organization already utilizes VMware’s vSphere and you have a need for load balancing in your infrastructure, you’re in luck. VMware incorporated Avi Networks’ load balancing software into...
View ArticlePassword Security: The Do’s, The Don’ts and the Please Just Stop’s
The inspiration for this blog was my seething hatred for overly complex password requirements and a PowerBI report I created to show the math to see if it would help fill my never-ending pit of rage....
View ArticleDevs on Stage at TC23
Devs on stage was such a joy to watch this year at Tableau Conference 2023. For those of you unfamiliar with Devs on Stage, this keynote offers an opportunity to hear about exciting innovations from...
View ArticleWhat Are Tableau GPT and Tableau Pulse?
I think it is fair to say that most of us are familiar with Chat GPT, a revolutionary Large Language Model from Open AI that is revolutionizing the way we work and interact with AI. Tableau recently...
View ArticleUser-Centered Dashboard Development: Evolve
If you’re new to User-Centered Dashboard Development (UCDD), please check out the earlier posts in this series to get acclimated, found at the bottom of this post, then come back here! We have...
View ArticleThoughtSpot 101: 5 Tips for Creating Really Good Liveboards
In our last blog, we gave you some tips on how to create worksheets that will bring your users a delightful search analytics experience, but what if you want to build some pre-built analyses for users...
View ArticleHow to Start Learning Tableau Prep
Learning a new tool can be daunting, especially if you are starting from square one with little to no experience. That’s why I’ve outlined a small list of free learning resources and exercises for a...
View ArticlePYD121 – Tableau Conference 2023 Recap with Mat Hughes & Keith Dykstra
InterWorks’ Content Manager Garrett Sauls sat down with Solutions Architecture Director, Americas, Mat Hughes and Analytics Lead Keith Dykstra to take stock of the announcements made at TC23 and what...
View Article5 Tips for Financial Dashboarding
Back in my days working in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), my job was rooted in data storytelling. I developed forecasts, ad hoc analyses, models and dashboards to help drive and empower...
View ArticleLive Snowflake Summit 2023
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View ArticleTen Questions for ChatGPT about Tableau and Level of Detail Expressions
I had some fun with ChatGPT asking it questions about cohort analysis this week. I’ll spare you the 4,000 words it created on general questions I prompted on cohort analysis and focus on the topics...
View ArticleBuilding Solutions with InterWorks at Corinium’s Data Architecture Conference...
InterWorks was a proud sponsor of the Data Architecture Conference hosted by Corinium in Melbourne on 21 and 22 June 2023. Hundreds of data professionals gathered to hear about the latest trends,...
View ArticleGetting SaaSy with Matillion’s Data Productivity Cloud
In today’s tech landscape, the rapid increase of data and the migration of systems to the cloud has significantly diversified the range of data loading and processing tools available. For a data...
View ArticleDevelop Purpose-Built BI Dashboards with InterWorks’ Solution Design Sprint
Let’s be honest, most things dashboard developers build for their users don’t meet those users’ needs. There’s a reason Googling “dashboards are dead” can lead you down a rabbit hole compelling enough...
View ArticleSkills for Conflict Resolution in Consulting
At InterWorks, we pride ourselves on making genuine connections with our clients and delivering excellent value and service at the same time. We’ve written about our approach to great consulting in a...
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