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 ...
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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 Lambda functions and call them within Snowflake. This has unlocked a whole new realm of...
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. The new hotness is to flip the “T” and the...
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 event covered five essential tips on table calculations. Table calculations are a special feature inside...
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 colleague Brooks Barth. You can...
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 to get that data from then...
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, how does one navigate these biases? I’m not sure...
Advance with Assist: Tableau Server – Interactive MicroService Container Degraded
Question: After restarting our Tableau Services due to the gateway going down, the system came back up. However, we now see that the Interactive Microservice Container is degraded. Restarts aren’t fixing the issue. Anything else we can try? In this post, we’ll talk through the troubleshooting...
Tableau for Good: A Social Distancing Floor Plan for Restaurants
The Drawing Tool has been incorporated into CBI Studio by InterWorks. Explore CBI Studio to see what’s new. As a result of the widespread measures taken by various governments around the world to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a lot of business industries have been adversely...
Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Data Science
When you think of data science (for the purposes of this blog, this will encompass all machine learning and AI activities), you may think of specific aspects. I would make a wager that most people think specifically about model building. The Data Science Process Data science is...
Advance with Assist: Missing Joins in Tableau 2020.2
Question: We just upgraded to 2020.2 and when I view the data source screen, I no longer see my joins that were in my data source before. Where’d they go? Do I have to rebuild? With the release of 2020.2, Tableau has unveiled many new features,...
Geocoding in Tableau Prep with Mapbox
Geocoding addresses in a scalable and sustainable way has always been surprisingly difficult in the BI world, let alone in Tableau. You either need expensive datasets/services, overkill GIS tools, or you must rely on very legally dubious usage of seemingly free (but not really free)...
Using Python with Tableau Prep
Tableau Prep has improved considerably since it was launched. It offers a lot of tools to pre-process and transform your data. But sometimes, you need to apply a function that has no equivalent in Prep, want to extract some data using an API interface or...
Webinar Replay: Modern User Experience Design in Tableau
Want your dashboards to feel more like the apps and websites you use every day? Join us as we explore how you can improve the user experience by leveraging the features and functionalities of Tableau in new ways. In this webinar, a Tableau expert will...
Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: Modern Data Warehouse
Snowflake has long been the Cloud Data Warehouse. The organization has completely changed the game with unique architecture purpose-built for the cloud: allowing scalable storage and compute for data warehousing projects, all within a SQL-compliant database. The benefits of Snowflake’s modern architecture were obvious, and over...
Webinar Replay: Powerful Integrations: Tableau, Snowflake, Alteryx and Matillion
What technologies can you pair to enhance the data experience? How can the right blend of tech help you do your job faster and more easily? In this webinar, we hear from Global Database Administrator & BI Analyst at TenCate, Scott Perry, alongside InterWorks’ Dan Murray as...
Create a Stacked Impact Super Chart in Tableau
Every now and then, you want to customise your viz in Tableau just a little bit outside of the standard functionalities, without spending more time on customising the viz than building it initially. I recently came across a chart I had never seen before, but...
Webinar Replay: Analytics for Education
Educational organisations face several challenges when it comes to analytics, including streamlining a variety of data systems, the need to create very user-friendly dashboards, and the necessity of having flexible tools that allow for customizing reports that meet stakeholders’ needs. Such challenges aren’t unique to...
Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud: How We Got Here
Five years ago, in the distant past that still included large, boozy, in-person technology conferences, I met two guys from an upstart cloud data warehousing company called Snowflake. Walter Aldana and Uday Keshavdas were those two guys, and while they are both great and were...
What’s in a Name vs. When Is a Name? A Data Viz
Depending on your age (and many other factors), when you read the phrase “What’s in a name?” you may think of one of two things: A soliloquy from Shakespeare where Juliet bemoans, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any...
