PYD78 – Quantified Preview
Join Garrett Sauls and Katie Wagner as they talk about the basics of data and tackle important baseline questions about a career in data during this special preview of our new podcast, Quantified....
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A Consultant’s Case for Wordsmith, Now and Later
The world of data has been exploding, and the process of capturing and analyzing data to drive business decisions is now the norm. This explosion has brought with it a rapid pace of innovation. Tableau Software is a giant in the visual-analytics space, Snowflake is...
Analytics Explained: Describing Our World
Descriptive analytics is all about answering simple questions like: How much did we sell last week? Which customers bought the most from us? How much inventory do we have left? It would be wrong, however, to think that answering these simple questions is itself simple. The...
Analytics Explained: The Foundation
Call me crazy, but I think this whole data thing has legs. At this point, it’s a cliché to say that data is the new oil or that data maturity is vital to the business. Everybody wants to be a data-driven company, but often the...
Why Data in One Place Matters: Data Warehousing with Fivetran
Image above courtesy of Fivetran Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about Snowflake, a cloud data warehouse that brings joy to the world of analytics. While I’ve spent a good amount of time outlining the benefits of the way Snowflake approaches data warehousing, I recently had...
WEBINAR: Analytics for Compliance, Monitoring and Audit
How to get ahead of non-compliance Finance teams typically chase down non-compliant activity after the fact in an attempt to minimise the damage. However, with a modern analytics platform like Tableau it's quick and easy to detect potential violations in real-time by visually analysing your own...
PYD70 – Debating Dashboard Design
You want your hard work to get noticed, right? When it comes to designing visualizations and dashboards, getting your work noticed and making it useful have typically come with some sort of sacrifices on both sides. In this week's show, Robert, Mike and Ben discuss just...
PYD67 – Disney Data & Analytics Conference 2018 Recap
Who doesn't love a little magic? Many of us at InterWorks are HUGE fans of Disney. So when we heard about Disney Data and Analytics Conference, we knew it was one we had to check out. Ben and Robert graciously and humbly volunteered to be our...
PYD65 – Mavis Liu, Tableau Community Forum Ambassador
Mavis Liu has been a steady force since she started in our London office. From consultant to trainer to, now, Tableau Community Forum Ambassador, she's going places - both literally and professionally. Fellow consultant Eugenia Kis was able to catch Mavis between gigs and get a...
WEBINAR: Learn How to Build a Suite of Dashboards with the Feel of an Application
When should a worksheet be part of a dashboard? When should a dashboard be part of a larger suite? Max Giegerich discusses how visual best practices and dashboard actions can be used to optimise the users’ analytical journey and demonstrates some useful advanced techniques for mitigating...
PYD64 – Sarah Burnett
Sarah Burnett's career in data has taken her all over the world - from New Zealand to London and now to Singapore. Sarah co-leads the Singapore Tableau User Group (with Datasaurus Rex) and is a Tableau Social Ambassador. Jia returns to talk with Sarah about her...
PYD55 – Kat Nagar And Karl Riddett – Inspire Brands
"Technology is definitely intimidating to those who don't work with it on a day-to-day basis. Once you get to the Portal and it's all very intuitive, that fear or that intimidation goes away." Kat Nagar, Director of Compensation and Talent Analytics, and Karl Riddett, Director of...
PYD52 – Jim de Clercq, Analytics Production Lead on User Adoption
As we wrap up a full two years of Podcast Your Data!, Analytics Consultant Justus Niemzok of InterWorks Europe sits down with Jim de Clercq, the Analytics Product Lead and data champion at Logitech. Jim is helping to drive the data revolution inside his network...
PYD49 – Tableau 10.5 Updates
It’s the first Podcast Your Data! episode of the new year, and there is already plenty to discuss. We have a full cast of characters as Robert Rouse, Tony Kau and Brad Fair team up for a roundtable discussion on everything you need to know...
The Quantified Car: Part Two – Path Maps
In this installment of The Quantified Car series, I want to discuss path maps. We know that Tableau can draw polygon or filled maps, but it can also draw points on a map using circle marks. Path maps are used to draw lines between those...
Improving Your Dynamic or Repeated Text in Tableau
One of the many helpful features in Tableau is the ability to create dynamic text boxes that update depending on user selection or other events on the dashboard. It’s a common practice to use parameters in text boxes. That’s why I would like to offer a...
InterWorks Blog Roundup – December 2017
2018 is finally here and we’ve got a lot queued up for the blog this year! One aspect we’re currently focused on is how we can “out do” ourselves. After all, 2017 was pretty epic for our blog and social media. We launched a ton of new...
How to Load Data from JSON to EXASOL
If you’ve been looking for a way to load JSON data into EXASOL with just a click, then you’ll love this post! As data scientists, most of our time is spent preparing data for analysis and modeling. In my professional experience, I have faced many hurdles...
Tableau Deep Dive: Table Calculations – Custom Sorts, Part Two
In part one of this two-parter, I went into a lot of depth on how to use custom sorts within table calculations. I highly recommend reading that article first before continuing with the second part. In this post, we’re going to apply those ideas to illustrate...
Questions from Tableau Training: How to Use Specific Dimensions in Table Calculations
In a Desktop II: Intermediate course I recently taught, a student asked, “When would I ever need the specific dimensions option with table calculations?” This is a great question! We know that we can utilize the prebuilt options in our table calculation dialog box to...
