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 they discuss use cases for Tableau, Snowflake, Alteryx and […]
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 it looked good for the data it was used for. […]
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 education, but there are variables and nuances surrounding them that […]
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 passionate about Snowflake, I was unconvinced at the time. I […]
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 other word would smell as sweet.” A lyric from The […]
Take Control of Your Chart Labels in Tableau
Oftentimes, we want to show the labels on charts, but there may be cases where we need more flexibility than the default options Tableau provides. For example, we may only want to label the most recent data points or select points of particular interest. In this post, we will see how you can get full […]
Our Favorite InterWorks KPI Designs from 2019-2020
Even though we’re nowhere near the end of 2020, my colleague, Skylark Macadamia, recently began thinking back on what some of her favorite InterWorks KPI designs have been over the past year. The UX and Design team at InterWorks has worked on numerous Tableau projects and dashboards during this time, so there was a wealth […]
Portals for Tableau Feature Expansion: Content Tracking
While we definitely recommend using a web analytics tracker, such as Google Analytics or Matomo, to track usage of your portal, the portal itself does record each time a user visits a piece of content. It uses this information to generate things like recommended content, recently visited content, most active users, etc. Feature Expanded Originally, […]
InterWorks Supports the Launch of New DataWomen Community
We’re pleased to announce that InterWorks is supporting the launch of a new data community! DataWomen is a network that will host regular webinars, run a mentoring program, host a LinkedIn group and share awesome content and links for other groups. Learn more at the DataWomen page. Celebrating the Community of Women in Data The […]
Webinar Replay: Tableau 2020.2 Feature Demo: New Data Model
The latest version of Tableau, 2020.2, introduces a game-changing new data model. This feature provides you much more flexibility and changes the way you can work with the data sources. We will explore the differences in user experience when compared to previous versions. Furthermore, we will dive in and go through different scenarios: Introduction to […]