Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2020: A Recap
2020 has been filled with unexpected surprises. From the global pandemic we find ourselves in to the disappearance of the business travel I had grown to love, the way this year has wrapped up was not...
View ArticleInterWorks Named 2020 Global Tableau Partner of the Year by Salesforce
It’s been a little over a year since Salesforce and Tableau officially joined forces, bringing together the best of the CRM and visual analytics worlds respectively. One of the great strengths of both...
View ArticleSo You Want to Lead a Tableau User Group: Pandemic Edition
Even though 2020 has made staying connected to a supportive community a tough puzzle to solve, people are continuing to find a way, and one group that proves their determination and creativity in...
View ArticleInterWorks Blog Roundup – November 2020
It’s been a tough year, but we are still full of gratitude for the incredible community we have, including our team, our clients, our partners and you! This last month on the blog, we highlighted the...
View ArticleReflecting on My First Year as an InterWorker
Heading into December, it feels like a great time to reflect on everything that has happened this year—things that have changed, people we have met, learning we have acquired, situations we have...
View ArticleHome for the Holidays: InterWorks’ First Virtual Holiday Party
It has truly been a year like no other, which means that our team has risen to a completely new level when it comes to meeting others’ needs and caring for those in our community, whether clients,...
View ArticleA Day in the WFH Life: Global Director of Employee Experience
Above: Mornings have become my new favorite now that I work from home. Lots of snuggles with the pets, and no commute! Above: The global pandemic brought out my inner homesteader. I now have chickens,...
View ArticleInterWorks Career Advice: What We Wish We’d Known
Most of my time with students these days is filled with sharing about why InterWorks is a great company to work for and how they can become a part of the InterWorks culture. But every now and then, I...
View ArticlePYD107 – Year in Review
That’s a wrap! Join Ben Young, Karl Riddet, and Dan Murray on this episode of Podcast Your Data as they give a data centric recap of 2020 and look ahead to 2021. Podcast Your Data · PYD107 – Year in...
View ArticleInterWorks Blog Roundup – December 2020
One of the longest years has finally reached its conclusion. Our December blog posts may have been few, but since we’ve always been proponents of quality over quantity, this doesn’t really bother us....
View ArticleGoodbye, 2020, Hello, 2021: Data Goals for the New Year
Congratulations to each and every one of you on making it through the toughest year I could have ever imagined. This year has been filled with so much pain, disappointment and fear, but now that we are...
View ArticleFive Tableau UX Hacks for 2021
“It doesn’t have to look good. It just has to work.” I have a client who often says this when I start a new dashboarding project. The statement seems paradoxical because design and functionality are...
View ArticleUnderstanding PREVIOUS_VALUE in Tableau
How the heck does this function work? You know what? I have been working with (and teaching) Tableau for over five years. Have a guess at when I finally understood the PREVIOUS_VALUE function … It was...
View ArticleAdventures in Alteryxland, Part 1
A couple of months into my life at InterWorks, I was asked to shadow an Alteryx project for a client. Well, I did not actually end up shadowing; it became more of an Alteryx challenge set by the...
View ArticleThe Sound of InterWorks: Spotify Wrapped 2020
What a year. A year with so much potential for puns (think: hindsight is 2020, 2020 vision … if only) turned out to be quite different. Rather than sounding like a good joke, many people will forever...
View ArticleTime Capsule 2020: Technology and Data
It goes without saying (though the whole point of this blog is to say it) that 2020 was a year unlike any other. For many of us, what come to mind first are the negative aspects of the year: COVID,...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Tableau 2020.4
As always, Tableau delivers on its newest release. There are plenty of great advancements in Tableau 2020.4, but there are two themes that stand out the most to me: maps and SaaS upgrades. The days are...
View ArticleAdvance with Assist: Pointing Tableau to a Named Range
Question: I have multiple tables on a single Excel sheet. Can Tableau point to a specific range of cells in Excel, or do I need to make new sheets? The Challenge In an ideal situation, you will always...
View ArticleInterWorks Expands Strategic Partnership with Matillion in Australia
Over the past few years, InterWorks and our clients have received immense value from Matillion’s data transformation capabilities for cloud data warehouses. Loved by our global team, Matillion has...
View ArticleTime Capsule 2020: Society and Culture
In the second part of our Time Capsule 2020 blog, we turn to those events and ideas that demanded our attention outside of the technology industry (you can find that post here), whether by the urgency...
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