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Navigating Bias in the Data Visualization Process
Politics are … tricky. I firmly believe that data has its place in every part of the world. However, I also know that data can be biased, especially in its presentation. So, when designing for data,...
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Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Data Exchange
Have you ever been working on a project and wanted to pull in some data that you didn’t have access to? This has happened to me on far too many occasions. My next step is to figure out where I am going...
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Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Conditional Formatting
In this new blog series, we’ll be looking at a few advanced techniques for tooltips. To get to grips with the basics, why we use tooltips and how they can add to your views, refer to this blog from my...
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Virtual Event Recap: Five Essential Tips for Table Calculations
As the world remains in quasi-quarantine, we’ve been staying connected and learning in our home offices thanks to InterWorks’ virtual Lunch & Learn series hosted by our APAC team. This month’s...
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Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Data Engineering
When talking about the “doing” part of data engineering, folks usually want to say something about ETL like, “How are your ETLs running today?” This is a horrible term and even worse in plural form....
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InterWorks Named to the 2020 Inc. 5000
We’re pleased to announce that InterWorks was just named to the Inc. 5000 list for 2020! Each year, the Inc. 5000 list recognizes the fastest-growing, privately held companies in the U.S. Even though...
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Zero to Snowflake: Setting Up Snowflake External Functions with AWS Lambda
Recently, Snowflake implemented a new feature that allows its standard functionality to be extended through the use of external functions. Among several other capabilities is the ability to create AWS...
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Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Switching Vizzes
You are probably already aware of sheet swapping within a dashboard in Tableau, whereby a parameter is provided for the user to select the visualisation they want to see … Check out my colleague Keith...
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Advance with Assist: A Shortcut for Duplicating Calculations
Question: I’m needing to split Sales out for each member of a dimension to have separate measures. What’s the best way to go about that? This question comes up from time to time when someone has a...
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PYD105 – Community Building: Tableau User Group Discussion
This week’s show is all about Tableau User Groups! Join our host, Ben Bausili, as he speaks with TUG leaders from across the globe. We hear from seasoned TUG leaders like Dan Murray who shares about...
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Tableau 2020.3 New Feature Highlights
Since Tableau released 2020.3 on the 11th of August, it is high time to highlight some of the new or improved features. In this blog, I’ll highlight the following: Improvements to the New Data Model...
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Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Highlighting a Data Point
In this post, we’ll be looking at how we can use a tooltip and worksheet actions to highlight, rather than filter, a data point in our target viz. Here, the primary viz shows the sales by Sub-Category,...
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Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Data Lake
Data lake is one of the terms in our field that has changed a lot over the years. When I think about data lake as a workload that organizations run, my first thought goes back to the Hadoop days....
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Portals for Tableau Is Now Curator by InterWorks
We’re thrilled to share a bit of exciting news: Portals for Tableau, our branded analytics platform, has been officially rebranded as Curator by InterWorks! For those unfamiliar with the platform,...
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Hands-On Alteryx: An Intro to Regular Expressions for Text Analytics
A regular expression, also commonly known as RegEx (pronounced as /reh-JEKS/), is a powerful text-processing framework that uses a sequence of characters to define a search pattern. It is a widely used...
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Zero to Snowflake: API Access Using External Functions and AWS Lambda
Welcome back to our mini-series on Snowflake External Functions with AWS Lambda. Before we proceed, please read the previous post on how to set up these functions and how Snowflake interacts with AWS...
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New Considerations for Migrating from Tableau Server to Tableau Online
It’s been a minute since we looked at the process to migrate from your own Tableau Server onto the Tableau-hosted SaaS offering Tableau Online. If you’re considering the move, below is an updated list...
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Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Data Applications
Snowflake’s cloud-first architecture has unlocked access to data in a way that was previously impossible. For the first time in history, data is accessible, affordable and fast. As users began to...
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Webinar Replay – One Hour Tableau Dashboard Challenge
One Hour Tableau Dashboard Challenge: If you learn best by observing others work while talking through their process, this dashboarding webinar is for you! Our team will give a look at how an...
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Going Deep with Tableau Tooltips: Multiple Vizzes
For this tooltip, we have brought multiple worksheets together to give some additional information and improved formatting in our tooltip. The two bar charts are built as normal, and I’ve built two...
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