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Tips from Assist: Tableau Map Layers Disappearing
Customer Question: “When I’m using filters on my map visualization, if the filter returns null values for any state, that state disappears from the map. How can I make a map that will show state...
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A Guide to Power BI Desktop for Tableau Developers
You may have the job title of data analyst, or you may work in HR or sales. Regardless, the versatility of modern data visualization tools allows everyone access to self-serve analytics. If you already...
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Introduction to Snowflake File Formats
File formats are database objects used by snowflake to ingest flat files. Consider file formats as your way of giving snowflake information about the file so it knows how to ingest those flat files in...
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Maturing Analytics: User Adoption and Data Delivery
Welcome back to our journey in maturing analytics. In Part 1, we looked at our job to be done and why it wasn’t building dashboards. In Part 2, we dove into the details of how dashboards can be a...
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Why Are My Power BI Locations Mapping My Data Incorrectly?
It can be a very confusing or frustrating experience whenever a technical tool doesn’t do what you want it to do, or even what it should be doing using common sense! I recently had some issues with the...
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Federated Governance
Over the last couple of years, there has been a lot of interest in the data mesh architecture first proposed back in 2018 by Zhamak Dehghani. It offers a practical alternative to the previously...
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Intern Dashboards: Spotify Insights on World Music
Being an avid music lover, I always wondered about various factors that make up an entire song. This project provided me an opportunity to do so. I stumbled upon an amazing data source in Kaggle that...
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Maturing Analytics: Analytics as a Product
Welcome back to our journey in maturing analytics. In Part 3, we discussed why user adoption stumbles and explored different delivery paths for analytics. Now, in Part 4, we will talk about product...
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Intern Dashboards: The Rise and Fall of India’s EdTech Market
The decline of a large enterprise is often the result of numerous small issues compounding over time. However, there is a tendency to focus on less relevant aspects and overlook the single most crucial...
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Recap of Current Snowflake Tools
As Snowflake becomes more and more feature rich, we’ve become surrounded by all manner of suffixes to the word “Snow.” In this post, I’ll summarise the tools available and what their intended use is....
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Conditional Calculations in Tableau and Power BI (Video Tutorial)
In the video below, I go over Conditional Calculations using two of the most widely-used data visualisation tools on the market: Tableau by Salesforce and Power BI by Microsoft. Tune in here: The post...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2024
Howdy, blog readers! We’ve got some exciting stuff for you this month. We were an absolute machine with the production this past month, with 20+ blogs handwritten just for you. But before we get into...
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Measuring the Success of Data and Analytics: A Quick Start Guide
In the realm of analytics, measuring success can be a complex endeavor. It’s crucial to differentiate between evaluating the success of your entire analytics platform or practice and measuring the...
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The Latest With Tableau Pulse: Make It Work for You!
If you attended the latest Tableau Conference earlier this spring, or if you’ve spent any time considering the feasibility of a migration to Tableau Cloud, you may be familiar with Tableau Pulse....
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Data Mesh — An Independent View
The Quick Version The Data Mesh architecture provides a credible blueprint for managing data at scale. It offers a solution for organisations that are simply too large or complex to be able to...
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Maturing Analytics: The Road to AI
Welcome back to our journey in maturing analytics. We’ve gone from identifying the actual job to be done to many of the methods and tools you’ll use to deliver on it. In this final installment, we’re...
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Demystifying Variables in Matillion DPC
Variables are a fundamental part of all programming languages, giving developers a flexible object in which they can store, update and retrieve data. What makes them extra useful in DPC is that the...
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Being the Exception
“If you want an exceptional outcome, you must be willing to be the exception.” wrote Sam Presti, the General Manager of the Oklahoma City Thunder. It was the summer of 2019 in an article penned to fans...
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Concurrency with Unlimited Scale in Matillion’s Data Productivity Cloud
Ever found yourself stuck in development limbo, waiting for a job to finish, only to realize you might need to tweak it again? It’s one of the less enjoyable parts of being a data engineer. But what if...
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How to Use MIN_BY / MAX_BY in Snowflake
If you are familiar with SQL, you would be familiar with the concept of aggregate functions. For those who are still a bit fuzzy on what these aggregate functions intend to do, here’s a quick couple of...
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