Tableau is the #1 visual analytics platform in the world. In part, it has accomplished this by providing its user base with a tremendous amount of flexibility when it comes to data sources. By my last count, Tableau has over 80 native connectors to a...
Gartner has recently released the Magic BI Quadrant for 2020. As a refresher, this quadrant ranks the top platforms in BI according to factors like execution and scope of vision. Per tradition, I've decided to take their report and visualize them in Tableau. The overall...
One of the first things you’ll do when setting up your Snowflake environment is to establish your virtual warehouses. What this boils down to, essentially, is how much compute you want to use and how segregated that compute will be. What Is a Virtual Warehouse? Warehouses are...
What does it look like to go from zero to hero with Snowflake? In this PYD episode, host Ben Du talks with Geoff Soon, the company’s managing director for South Asia, about the value of Snowflake, what we can expect in its future and some...
Two weeks ago, my fellow content connoisseur Andrea Avey sat down with InterWorks IT gurus Scott Matlock and Tim Rhymer to talk about the impact of the cloud on IT over the past ten years. That’s some serious ground to cover, and they did a...
We know what dates Halloween, Christmas, and US Independence Day are on. But what about National Dogs in Politics Day or National Raisin Day? This Alteryx Weekly Challenge starts with a list of unofficial holidays, and the goal is to put them in order from January...
In the entire history of the world, sharing information has never been easier. This becomes obvious just by looking at social media platforms. Their technological innovations have enabled billions of users worldwide to share Instagram stories, TikTok videos, World War 3 memes, baby/yoga/kitten videos and...
Data visualization, like any other tool, can serve whatever purpose we desire. Most of the time, it is a business-related purpose. However, there are thousands of cases where pointing out a gain or loss in a specific aspect can bring us—as a society—increased life expectancy,...
If you’ve never heard of Typeform, don’t worry. A lot of people haven’t. However, allow me to introduce you. Typeform is a great tool that can stand in place of programs like SurveyMonkey or Qualtrics. As users take a survey, it can provide an awesome...
Last month, I graduated from an MBA at Strathclyde Business School. The experience was deep, vast and mind-opening. I learned an epic amount about the business landscape, including almost anything you can think of from marketing to finance—and yes, data, too! However, like the rest of...
API stands for Application Programming Interface. Put simply, APIs are a way for a device, software or website (these are known as "clients") to talk to a server. Think of it as a standard for how systems talk to one another. In tech lingo, this...
In this special episode of Podcast Your Data, InterWorks’ leadership reflects on the last decade and makes predictions for the next. Hear InterWorks Data Practice Lead Brian Bickell talk with CEO, Behfar Jahanshahi, and Director of Strategic Innovation, Dan Murray, about some of the most...
Data can be stored in many different formats. In the previous post in this series, we discussed semi-structured file formats, focusing on a particular approach called JSON, which is formed of arrays, objects and key value pairs. This is one of many semi-structured data formats...
In the world of data, getting near-real-time data is kind of like the holy grail for reporting. The benefits are easy to see: reporting on things as they happen opens up a world of decisions that didn’t before exist. While I could write a full...
Question: My workflow runs fine locally, but after publishing, it fails with the error below. Any insight into what I need to do? As we all know, Alteryx is a very powerful tool allowing for connections to a variety of systems and data for both Input...
Snowflake is a versatile powerhouse of cloud-based data storage. As in previous posts, I want to start this blog by reviewing the types of structured and semi-structured data that Snowflake can support: *Note: The XML preview feature link can be accessed here As always, an updated list of...
When illustrating the difference between UX, UI and graphic design, I like to use the analogy of spoons. Spoons are simple. Everyone uses them. Yet if I were to root around in your kitchen drawers, I’d discover more than one kind of spoon, each with...
It’s a new year, so like clockwork, there’s a new release of Tableau Desktop currently in beta: version 2020.1. There are a couple of features that immediately grabbed my attention, so here’s a quick example of dynamic parameters and animations. Dynamic Parameters With dynamic parameters, you can...
Question: I have a dashboard where currently my filters are listed down the right side of my dashboard. I want to use the new Show/Hide buttons, but the menu option isn’t there. What am I missing? One of the newer features of Tableau Desktop includes container...
Data can be stored in many different formats. Before we can import any data into Snowflake, it must first be stored in a supported format that Snowflake can interpret. At time of writing, the full list of supported is contained in the table below: *Note: The...
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