How To Build a Colored Smooth Funnel in Tableau
As we’ve published before, a funnel is a great way to represent and track a flow or stages in a process. Whether in business, science or engineering, for instance, we can use funnels to easily see and...
View ArticleInterWorks Blog Roundup — February 2024
Hey, howdy, hey readers! Welcome back to our monthly blog roundup, where we’re going to list out all of the blogs we published in February for your easy perusal. Scroll through, find a blog that...
View ArticleComparing Query Performance of Star Schemas vs. Flat Tables
I was doing some performance tuning for a client recently, trying to improve their query performance from a SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse. As part of the benchmarking process, I compared...
View ArticleHow Assist by InterWorks Supports Your Entire Data Stack
Assist by InterWorks has been helping hundreds of InterWorks clients for years now. Assist got its beginnings as an on-demand, Tableau assistance offering connecting users directly with our...
View ArticleInterWorks Wins Four 2024 Matillion Emerald Partner Network Awards
On Friday, March 8, our partners at Matillion announced that InterWorks had won four of their Emerald Partner Network Awards: APAC Partner of the Year Customer Obsessed Individual Award: Paul...
View ArticleTableau Hacks: Range-Based Labels and Axis
If the axis on your viz can change from anywhere between single numbers to millions depending on your filters, it might sometimes be a bit annoying that the number formatting on the axis and labels...
View ArticleHow To Build the Best Metrics in Tableau Pulse
Tableau Pulse is here! The newest development of the Tableau world, launched and driven by artificial intelligence. If you haven’t seen much about what Tableau Pulse is and how it works, check out some...
View ArticleData Products: Why Use Them and Why It Can Be Difficult to Get Started
Packaging data in the form of data products greatly increases the value and flexibility of your data assets. New business functionality can be delivered up to 90% faster and overall TCO of your data...
View ArticleIntroduction to Semantic Layers
At InterWorks, most consultants would be able to tell you this story: “My client has asked me to help build a source of truth for all of their reporting and data analysis queries.” The ask is simple:...
View ArticlePYD124 – Data Council Austin 2024 Preview with Jack Hulbert, Brooks Barth &...
In this episode, Content Manager Garret Sauls sits down with Analytics Architect Jack Hulbert, Analytics Lead Brooks Barth and Solutions Architect Director, Americas Mat Hughes to discuss the...
View ArticleInterWorks Gives Back: Fundación Parque Metropolitano de la Libertad Training
It was the end of April 2023 when I got a phone call from Diego, a former and very dear colleague with great experience working with Tableau (and with data in general) from whom I personally have...
View ArticleThe Medallion Data Architecture
The term “Medallion Data Architecture” was first coined by Databricks where they describe data at different stages of processing as being “bronze,” “silver” or “gold” level data. The term has since...
View ArticleAutomating EC2 Instance Management with AWS EventBridge and Lambda
Welcome to our journey into the world of AWS automation! In this blog post, we’ll be exploring how to automate the start and stop times of Amazon EC2 instances using a combination of AWS services:...
View ArticleIt’s a Wrap: Power BI and Fabric Summit 2024
With more than 150 virtual sessions, talks and live Q&A events, the Power BI and Fabric Summit 2024 conference had something for everyone. The keynote session kicked off with an overview of the...
View ArticlePower BI Logic and Calculation Foundations
For anyone interested in learning multiple BI tools, it’s always a rough start in the beginning: we’re sure we know the basics, but we also need to understand how some concepts translate or don’t even...
View ArticlePower BI Case Statements
In this blog we will show how to write case statements in Power BI, and how they differ from writing case statements in Tableau. How do you write a CASE statement in Tableau? Since the syntax in...
View ArticleRecreating Level of Detail Calculations in Power BI
While visualizations provide a valuable snapshot of data, they often fall short in accommodating the diverse analytical needs of decision-makers. For example, imagine a visualisation shows total sales...
View ArticleInterWorks Blog Roundup — March 2024
Welcome back, welcome back, readers! This is, as you can tell from the title, the InterWorks Blog Roundup for March of 2024. Yes, I just read the title back to you for word count purposes. No, I will...
View ArticleDomain Ownership: Data Products within Business Functions
A few years ago, the dominant architecture for data and analytics was based around an enterprise data warehouse (EDW). The intention was to replace separate departmental data silos with a central hub...
View ArticlePYD125 – Tableau Conference 2024 with Ken McBride, Evan Pierce and Alberto...
This special edition of Podcast Your Data comes from behind the scenes of our “Road to TC24″ series, which is dropping periodically on our social media. Here, Content Manager Garrett Sauls and...
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