Boost Your Tableau Workbooks With Large and Complex Data Sources
Speed is of the essence in lots of things, and Tableau dashboards are no different. Developers and end users alike want dashboards loaded in a blink of an eye. Luckily, there are many resources online...
View ArticlePython and Snowflake FAQ
Python is a first class language in the Snowflake eco system, and there are multiple ways to use Python with Snowflake: Snowflake Connector for Python: Listed in Snowflake drivers, this is a standard...
View ArticleMaturing Analytics: The Job To Be Done
The data and analytics industry is changing. Buried beneath the marketing hype and buzzwords, there’s something real happening, and the data industry is going through a giant shift. I’ve heard it...
View ArticleMaturing Analytics: Why Dashboards Fail
In Part 1, we looked at our Job to be Done and why it wasn’t building Dashboards. The key takeaway is to focus on user value and solve their pain points. Now, let’s turn to why what building dashboards...
View ArticleIT Sales Simplified: Intern to Employee with Seth Maston
In this episode, IT Sales Simplified host Genna Callahan sits down with InterWorks Client Manager Seth Maston to chat about transitioning from an IT intern to a fully fledged IT salesperson at a...
View ArticleSnowflake External Access: Retrieve Data from an API
Recently, Snowflake released external access integrations into general availability. This allows Snowflake admins to create secure tunnels for Snowflake to communicate with the outside world, and can...
View ArticleQuerying Stock Data with an API Query Profile in Matillion ETL
Matillion ETL is a GUI-based orchestration and transformation tool for data movement that has many functionalities, including querying external data via API. There are three primary ways to query this...
View ArticleHow to Build a Report in Power BI Desktop
Getting started in the Power BI Desktop application is a fun and exciting time. There are so many components that make up this masterful business intelligence tool, that at first glance it can appear a...
View ArticleInterworks Blog Roundup – June 2024
Hey, there, party people! Hope you all had an amazing June. We’re halfway through the year. Hope you all have been keeping up with your New Year’s Resolutions. (Didn’t think we’d remember that, did...
View ArticlePower BI DAX Iterator Functions Guide
DAX Iterator functions are a subset family of aggregator functions used to iterate over a table of rows. First, they evaluate an expression for each row in a table. Then they apply some form of...
View ArticleInterWorks Causes: Special Olympics Oklahoma
As I’ve touched on in prior posts, being involved with important causes in our local communities is one of the things that makes InterWorks a special place to work for. There are plenty of...
View ArticleMy First Attempt at Visual Storytelling in Tableau
This article reflects on my attempt at transforming a previously created Tableau dashboard. This transformation was greatly influenced by the insights gained from the excellent two-week Tableau data...
View ArticleBuilding a Data Culture Through Effective Planning, Governance and Measurement
Executives understand the value of high-quality, timely information. When asked why they invested in business intelligence software, they can cite examples that explain how their investments paid off....
View ArticlePlanning a Business Intelligence System
Selecting business intelligence software and planning a rollout is a significant undertaking. The real work should begin well before you start selecting software. You must comprehensively assess your...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Snowflake’s Marketplace
This article intends to provide a brief overview of what all the talk about Snowflake Native Apps Marketplace is about, how organizations can utilize the space to monetize their offerings, and how...
View ArticleWhat is Data Governance?
Often, discussions about data governance begin and end with security. Preventing unauthorized access or the loss of proprietary data is crucial. Data governance also ensures that your data systems...
View ArticleChange Management for Improved Profits
Business intelligence software which includes databases, data transformation tools and software for searching and presenting interactive reports, as dashboards have been around for 25 years. In the...
View ArticleBusiness Intelligence System Maintenance
An issue and an opportunity for nearly every existing business intelligence system is keeping it running well and minimizing costs. Cloud-based software makes it easy to spin up a data warehouse or a...
View ArticleHarnessing Power BI Buttons for Interactive Insights
In the following example, users can switch between a line chart displaying Sales by Month and a bar chart for Sales by Region by clicking a button: This interactive feature was developed in Power BI....
View ArticleCreating a Data Governance Framework That Drives User Adoption
In this six-part series, we’ve discussed the adoption history, planning a BI Rollout, decentralizing ownership of data workflows and operational definitions of key terms like data governance, data...
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