Documentation is for machines now. Understanding is for people later. Albert Einstein famously said, "Never memorize something that you can look up in a book." For years, we've used this as a high-minded excuse to justify our own procrastination. Why bother learning the syntax when (insert...
TL;DR: Everyone has/is/does "AI." Governance is the biggest topic. BI 2.0 is no longer interesting. Two weeks ago, I spent a day-and-a-half at the BigDataLDN (BDL) conference in London to get the temperature of the technology and sentiment of the data world. BDL is one of...
It's officially autumn around the InterWorks headquarters! The days grow shorter, the weather cooler and the leaves more colorful around our neck of the woods. You'll hear no complaints from us on that front. Nor will you hear any complaints from us about our blog...
A practical guide to restricting rows, protecting columns and enforcing both. Sigma gives you two complementary tools for controlling who sees what in your data: Row-level security (RLS), which controls which rows a user can see, and column-level security (CLS), which controls which columns a user...
When I first started building Sigma apps, I kept hitting the same performance wall. Sigma Workbook transformations and their repeated SQL queries sent to the warehouse can feel slow. The techniques that make traditional BI fast (like pushing transformations upstream, materializing aggregated views and precomputing...
A few months ago, a friend sent me a link to an NPR Music podcast episode about identifying the defining Millennial song. Of course, no single song can define an entire group of people born within a 15-year span, but I really enjoyed pondering what...
A B2B order fulfillment scenario. It's common to build implementations around transactional systems: an application writing new records into a database, an event triggering an orchestration step or a stream of individual transactions landing somewhere to be processed being common examples of it. A question that...
Data Analysis questions are among the most common questions I see from clients on the Assist desk. Now that AI has entered the chat, so to speak, I get a lot of questions about using AI to analyze, clean and work with data to make...
Analytics teams have spent years bringing software-engineering discipline to the data warehouse: version control, code review, CI, automated tests. The layer that has stubbornly resisted that treatment is the presentation layer, the dashboards and reports themselves. They tend to live as opaque objects inside a...
Honestly, if you asked me when my story started, I'd say it started when I was born. But if we're being reasonable about it, the real answer is pre-K, playing Command & Conquer with my dad on our home PC. That's one of my earliest memories,...
After more than a decade of service, we're sunsetting the Color Tool for Tableau. If you built high-stakes Tableau dashboards in 2014, you remember the pain. Getting your brand colors into Tableau meant hand-editing XML in a preferences file, one hex code at a time. So,...
Data teams have never had more to work with. Cloud warehouses handle scale that used to require infrastructure teams. AI models are accessible with a single API call. MCP servers, pre-built connectors and low-code platforms mean that stitching capabilities together has never been faster. The...
We replaced a seven-field form with a single sentence. Consultants type what they worked on — or import their Outlook calendar — and an AI assistant creates the time entry. The MVP was built in about 80 hours of development time using Claude Code, runs...
At the end of a long day, I was on zoom with my friend and coworker Austin. We were debating approaches to a feature where users could input scheduling for a forecasting app. Austin: But each time they start to input a row, that's going to cost them...
Last post, I built a chatbot that could answer any question about the InterWorks employee handbook. It worked well. Ask about parental leave in Germany, get the actual policy, cited, instantly. But a few weeks in, I noticed something: most of the questions people actually...
Another month, come and gone. Jeez, and what a month it was. In my personal life, I absolutely will not miss August 2026. Sayonara, arrivederci, adios to that accursed month. The "-ber" months are here, and I for one am grateful. In my professional life, however,...
In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series, I made the case that data transformation is a leadership challenge first and a technology challenge second, and that the organizations that get it right are the ones that invest as much in the...
If you've ever typed something into Claude and gotten back a response that was technically “correct” but not at all what you meant, welcome to the club. It’s one of the most common questions I get from folks who are new to using AI in...
An AI agent connected to Snowflake will answer almost any question put to it. Whether that answer is grounded in something real, or in whatever data the agent could reach with the least friction, is a separate question, and for most organizations today it hasn't...
Snowflake CoWork is the current name for what was, until June 2026, called Snowflake Intelligence. The rebrand wasn't just a new label: The product expanded at the same time, from a chat window for asking questions about your data into a personal work agent. More...
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