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InterWorks Blog Roundup — August 2024
Welcome, dear readers, to the August 2024 Blog Roundup. Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, kids are back and school and the heat of the summer has finally broken. Fall’s on the horizon (until Indian...
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A Use Case for Rank Dense in Tableau
Oftentimes, I find myself in training or enablement sessions, showing the full list of possible functions available to use in Tableau. It’s quite a list of possibilities that starts with ABS (for the...
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Hardening Snowflake Security with Network Rules and Policies
An important step towards ensuring the security of your Snowflake account(s) is the appropriate use of network rules and policies to prevent unauthorised access. These policies are leveraged to ensure...
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Mutation Testing: An Unknown Known Solution in Software Development
We All Suck at Something I want to let you in on a journey I’ve been on lately, just in case it can be as profound for you as it has been for me. Picture this: You’ve been in auto racing for decades....
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Lateral Thinking in Games and Data
Or, What Nintendo’s Game Boy has to do with Analytics Back before the success of the Nintendo Switch or the motion-controller craze of the Nintendo Wii, there was a device that encapsulated a central...
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How I Played the Long Game with InterWorks
I’m writing this post after all of eight days on the InterWorks payroll, but I’m not exaggerating when I say that walking into the office already feels like a homecoming. I learned about InterWorks a...
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InterWorks at CDAO Melbourne 2024
InterWorks recently attended CDAO Melbourne 2024, a three day event that took place on September 2-4, 2024. Featuring keynote speakers, panel discussions and interactive workshops, the conference...
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IT Sales Simplified: Recap and Lessons Learned
In this episode, InterWorks Content Manager Garrett Sauls sits down with IT Intern Genna Callahan to review what she learned over the course of her IT Internship, and how she feels about continuing...
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Native Snowflake Connector for Google Analytics
At InterWorks, we regularly build data pipelines for customers that include tools for migrating and transforming data such as Fivetran or Matillion. Tools such as these have connectors for many common...
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Simple Comparison of OLTP vs OLAP Systems
Now more than ever, businesses are focused on investing time and capital into their data platform. There is so much work that goes into processing data to generate insights, yet in my experience, there...
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The Art and Science of Product Management
In the realm of product management, two seminal works stand as contrasting pillars of wisdom: “Build” by Tony Fadell and “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. These books represent the balance of product...
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Actions in Tableau vs. Power BI
Great dashboards engage users and encourage exploration and discovery. A great way to do this is using interactivity. Let’s look into how to achieve this with different BI tools. Interactivity in...
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Dynamic Dates in Power BI (Video Tutorial)
In the video below, I go over how to implement a dynamic date axis in Power BI, giving the user the ability to show daily, monthly and yearly views of their data. This is especially useful for trends...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup — September 2024
Spooky season, ladies and gentlemen, is finally upon us. Ghouls, ghosts and creepy crawlies lie in wait for us just around the corner. First, though, let’s take a look at last month’s blog posts. Then,...
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Succeeding with AI When 80% of Projects Fail
Corporate AI Projects are High Risk, High Return McKinsey report that the adoption of AI within businesses has surged in the last year, with 72% of companies now using AI in at least one business...
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Introducing Models in ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is a next-generation BI tool that addresses a specific pain point that almost all data practitioners have encountered — by the time an analytics solution is ready for me and my team to use,...
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Physical Health and Your Work/Life Balance
We all hear about the importance of not overworking ourselves and avoiding burnout. With that in mind, it’s worth considering ways to achieve a healthy work/life balance. First: We need to understand...
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PYD132 – InnoTech Oklahoma with Sean Lowery and Chris Scully
In this episode, InterWorks Content Manager Garrett Sauls sits down with Sean Lowery, Director of Events for Prospera Events, and InterWorks IT Account Executive Chris Scully. Here, they talk about...
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Tag To Protect – Keep Your Data Safe with Object Tagging in Snowflake
As data breaches and cyber threads continue to rise, securing your data has become a top priority for businesses and organisations across all industries. Whether you want to safeguard sensitive...
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Enumerated and Computed Sets — What’s the Difference?
This blog topic was born out of a training course I delivered which always brings new questions and observations. No matter how often I do them, I’m always learning something myself. It concerns the...
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