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...
I took a holiday break from vizzing for the InterWorks blog, but we’re back with our second installment of This Old Viz. This time, I went to the internet to find public information, landing on a portion of Toyota’s annual reporting. Sales and Production Version 1 Here...
Various people come by our house, whether it be someone delivering mail, an Amazon Prime package or from the utilities. However, there are times when people try to come by who are not wanted. It is our responsibility to ensure that we do not give...
The great thing about the Tableau Blueprint is that the methodology isn’t Tableau-specific. It’s a great framework for successfully envisioning and enabling any significant project within an enterprise. This post will cover some insights we’ve learned over the past 12 years of helping companies deploy...
One of the questions that I’ve been getting a lot lately when I present on analytics is: how do you get good at Tableau? I’m going to give you as close to a blueprint as possible based on my own experiences to quickly build skills...
Surprise, surprise … another year in the books. I genuinely contemplated copying and pasting the opening paragraph of last year’s blog, but here I am writing an original opening to close out the decade. Start strong, finish strong, right? And as we begin a new...
As a Snowflake user and a Python enthusiast, I was very happy to learn that Snowflake has created its own Python package to connect to Snowflake and execute commands. As these commands are executed locally and transmitted to Snowflake, the full SnowSQL functionality is available...
What makes a champion? Our guests on this episode of PYD know the answer! Host Robert Rouse talks with Iron Viz participants Lindsey Poulter, Hesham Eissa and Joshua Smith about what it’s like competing against friends, some of their favorite (and not so favorite) moments...
Note: This blog was updated in October 2023 with minor updates. Our previous post in this series explained how to import data via the Snowflake user interface. You can also stage your data and load it into tables with code via SnowSQL, which is what this blog...
There are many ways to import data into Snowflake, with the simplest being via the standard user interface. To import data, we must meet the following requirements: The data must be in a suitable file format A warehouse in Snowflake must exist to perform the...
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