One of the fantastic features in Snowflake is the support of zero-copy cloning. This is the capability to duplicate an object while neither creating a physical copy nor adding any additional storage costs. This allows for much greater freedom in the environment as costs are...
Change. It’s one of those things that, even when you know it’s coming, can still throw you for a loop. And in the technology industry, change is a crucial element of our work and inherent in innovation. In this podcast, Content Coordinator Andrea Avey talks...
Two weeks ago, KeyBanc Capital Markets and the Mosaic network held their 15th Annual Emerging Technology Summit in San Francisco, California. This event connects executives from pre-IPO and public companies in the tech sector with leading private equity and public market investors. The goal is...
Join us for the second episode of a two-part series on embracing change. Change: even when you know it’s coming, it can still throw you for a loop. In the technology industry, change is a crucial element of our work as it is inherent in innovation....
The more you use the Snowflake user interface (UI) for query building, the more layers, panels and tricks you discover it has. I’ve come to take the different screens and shortcuts for granted, but whenever I sit with a new client, I run through these...
With This Old Viz, I ask the online Tableau community to put forward visualizations that they’d like a little expert assistance on. My background over the last six years is a heavy Tableau user and certified Tableau trainer. Before that, I was in the website...
Earlier in this series we have discussed how to load data into Snowflake using several different methods: Snowflake's user interface, the SnowSQL command line tool and Python. These three methods all perform the same task of loading data into Snowflake; however, they increase in complexity and...
Do you like tools that are difficult to use? We don’t either. A big focus our team has for Portals moving forward is making them easier and easier to use. We want to avoid users having to think about where the menu is for changing...
This post builds on my previous blog that laid out the basics of using the new Tableau Prep integration with R. Here, we’ll go a little bit deeper with a more complicated example and another dimension to this new capability. Using Tableau Prep and R to...
If there has been a lot of hype around how Tableau and Snowflake work so well together, it’s simply because they do! Tableau is a modern BI platform that enables powerful, self-service analytics in a continuously visual process to uncover rapid business insights. Snowflake is...
When I first started out as a Tableau developer, I was just trying to make sure my calculations didn’t result in errors and the dashboard rendered properly on Server. But as time went on, the caliber of dashboards became more complex and the number of...
TL;DR Build as much date logic into your calculations as possible, as opposed to using the Filters Shelf. Put your reference date (e.g. TODAY() ) into its own calculation so it can be easily changed in the future if needed. Centralize your date logic into...
When you work at a consultancy, you’re in the business of change. When a client reaches out for the first time, they’re showing a desire for change. When you suggest a new technology to improve their work, you are actively advocating change. And once that...
It’s rare, but sometimes the sequels are better than the original. In parts one, two and three, the report builder just kept getting better and better. Just when you thought there was no way we could top the original, we not only did, but we...
As of version 2019.3, Tableau Prep introduced a new and exciting feature: integration with R and Python. This is an incredible way to expand and customize the capabilities of your workflow. As someone coming from an R background, I was excited to brush up on...
One question we often get when a customer is considering moving to Snowflake from another platform, like Microsoft SQL Server for instance, is what they can do about migrating their SQL stored procedures to Snowflake. If you’ve read Snowflake’s documentation on the subject, you’ll know that Snowflake’s stored...
I’m going to let you in on a little known fact: Scientists have very recently discovered that a picture is worth a thousand words. When it comes to tutorials, you can either use your thousand words to describe each part of a dashboard, or you...
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...
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