As COVID continues, so does InterWorks’ virtual Lunch & Learn series. This month’s event covered dashboard templates. Dashboard templates (pre-built dashboards with reserved space for worksheets and controls like filters) can save time and produce better results. However, how you create and use these templates is...
Tableau 2020.3 has recently been released with several exciting new features that have been recapped by my colleague Robin Schouten. Two other features I wanted to focus on will be useful to anyone who builds Tableau dashboards on a regular basis. They might not be the...
While 2020 has hardly been the year anyone could have predicted, sports, uh … finds a way. The NFL is the first major sports league to have a full, normal-ish, season planned and while the pre-season was cancelled, the regular season kicks off September 10th...
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 extra sheets for the vertical and horizontal lines in my tooltip: For the vertical...
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 InterWorks consultant approaches developing a Tableau dashboard from beginning to end. Along the...
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 receive tangible value from their data-warehousing efforts, it quickly became clear that this data...
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 Lambda. API Knowledge Disclaimer If you are unfamiliar with APIs and how they work,...
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 method to identify if a pattern exists in a chunk of text, and...
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. Hadoop promised that processing true big...
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, and the tooltip shows where that Sub-Category sits...
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 Improvements to set controls, both introduced in 2020.2 The IN...
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 his European TUG adventures and Eugenia Kis who speaks...
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 dimension that separates out a single measure, but the...
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 ...
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 Lambda functions and call them within Snowflake. This has unlocked a whole new realm of...
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. The new hotness is to flip the “T” and the...
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 event covered five essential tips on table calculations. Table calculations are a special feature inside...
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 colleague Brooks Barth. You can...
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 to get that data from then...
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, how does one navigate these biases? I’m not sure...
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