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Recapping the Data Science Go Virtual Conference 2020
This year, I was asked to present a workshop at the Data Science Go Virtual Conference. The DSGO attendees included 2500+ new data scientists, and my presentation was geared toward the 200+ who were...
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Webinar Replay: Tableau 2020.2 Feature Demo: New Data Model
The latest version of Tableau, 2020.2, introduces a game-changing new data model. This feature provides you much more flexibility and changes the way you can work with the data sources. We will...
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Portals for Tableau Feature Expansion: Content Tracking
While we definitely recommend using a web analytics tracker, such as Google Analytics or Matomo, to track usage of your portal, the portal itself does record each time a user visits a piece of content....
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InterWorks Supports the Launch of New DataWomen Community
We’re pleased to announce that InterWorks is supporting the launch of a new data community! DataWomen is a network that will host regular webinars, run a mentoring program, host a LinkedIn group and...
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Our Favorite InterWorks KPI Designs from 2019-2020
Even though we’re nowhere near the end of 2020, my colleague, Skylark Macadamia, recently began thinking back on what some of her favorite InterWorks KPI designs have been over the past year. The UX...
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Take Control of Your Chart Labels in Tableau
Oftentimes, we want to show the labels on the charts, but the default Tableau options are limited and none of them may be suitable for our needs. However, by using table calculations, you can get full...
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What’s in a Name vs. When Is a Name? A Data Viz
Depending on your age (and many other factors), when you read the phrase “What’s in a name?” you may think of one of two things: A soliloquy from Shakespeare where Juliet bemoans, “What’s in a name?...
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Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: How We Got Here
Five years ago, in the distant past that still included large, boozy, in-person technology conferences, I met two guys from an upstart cloud data warehousing company called Snowflake. Walter Aldana and...
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Webinar Replay: Analytics for Education
Educational organisations face several challenges when it comes to analytics, including streamlining a variety of data systems, the need to create very user-friendly dashboards, and the necessity of...
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Create a Stacked Impact Super Chart in Tableau
Every now and then, you want to customise your viz in Tableau just a little bit outside of the standard functionalities, without spending more time on customising the viz than building it initially. I...
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Webinar Replay: Powerful Integrations: Tableau, Snowflake, Alteryx and Matillion
What technologies can you pair to enhance the data experience? How can the right blend of tech help you do your job faster and more easily? In this webinar, we hear from Global Database Administrator...
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Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Modern Data Warehouse
Snowflake has long been the Cloud Data Warehouse. The organization has completely changed the game with unique architecture purpose-built for the cloud: allowing scalable storage and compute for data...
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Webinar Replay: Modern User Experience Design in Tableau
Want your dashboards to feel more like the apps and websites you use every day? Join us as we explore how you can improve the user experience by leveraging the features and functionalities of Tableau...
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Using Python with Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep has improved considerably since it was launched. It offers a lot of tools to pre-process and transform your data. But sometimes, you need to apply a function that has no equivalent in...
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Geocoding in Tableau Prep with Mapbox
Geocoding addresses in a scalable and sustainable way has always been surprisingly difficult in the BI world, let alone in Tableau. You either need expensive datasets/services, overkill GIS tools, or...
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Advance with Assist: Missing Joins in Tableau 2020.2
Question: We just upgraded to 2020.2 and when I view the data source screen, I no longer see my joins that were in my data source before. Where’d they go? Do I have to rebuild? With the release of...
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Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Data Science
When you think of data science (for the purposes of this blog, this will encompass all machine learning and AI activities), you may think of specific aspects. I would make a wager that most people...
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Tableau for Good: A Social Distancing Floor Plan for Restaurants
As a result of the widespread measures taken by various governments around the world to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a lot of business industries have been adversely impacted by these...
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InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2020
Order up! We have another month’s worth of hot and fresh data resources ready for you. In this blog roundup, we feature a new Snowflake blog series, a summertime playlist, more webinar recordings than...
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Advance with Assist: Tableau Server – Interactive MicroService Container...
Question: After restarting our Tableau Services due to the gateway going down, the system came back up. However, we now see that the Interactive Microservice Container is degraded. Restarts aren’t...
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