PYD102 – Teaching Tableau: Three Perspectives from Higher Education
You’ve heard that the best way to learn something is to teach it, and this PYD episode is a true testament to that maxim. Listen in as host Zion Spencer, Marketing Analytics Manager, talks with our guests as they share three different perspectives of teaching Tableau: Jerry Rackley, a Marketing Analytics professor at Oklahoma State […]
Using Parameter Actions for Interactive Data Storytelling in Tableau
My colleague Kendra Allenspach and I recently put together a visual story about InterWorks’ musical preferences using Spotify Wrapped data (we’ve embedded the final product at the end of this article if you want to skip straight to the fun stuff). The project took us outside our normal Tableau boundaries as we experimented with Tableau’s […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Auto-Logout
There has been a recent boom in the number of people working from home, or at least away from the office. With this new development, security-minded businesses need a way to prevent an unattended computer from being hijacked by less-than-honorable individuals, not to mention a way to protect an unlocked keyboard from kids trying to […]
PYD101 – Champions of Change
Adjusting to change is one thing, but what does it take to be a champion and initiator of that change? Listen in as Global Marketing Manager, Jenny Parnell, talks with analytics consultants Rachel Kurtz and Dave Sirey about what it looks like to be an analytics champion and how you can become one. Hear how […]
Dashboard Confessions: Fighting Blank-Page Paralysis
Everyone has that moment. You’ve got the data. You have the goal – make a dashboard/visualization that says something interesting. You sit down. And then you freeze. You’re staring at a blank screen. Where do I go from here?!?!? The possibilities are virtually endless and it’s terrifying. Sometimes, it’s feeling paralyzed by all the options. […]
Collaborating in Tableau: Neat Lessons Learned from Messy Projects, Part 2
While relying on each other is extra crucial in these strange times, sometimes it can still be tricky to figure out what that really looks like. Especially in the workplace. This blog is the second part of the story of how my colleague Keith and I climbed out of the pit of despair in a […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – March 2020
The world is a place of unknowns and fear right now. At InterWorks, we’ve worked extra hard to find ways to creatively connect our team members across the globe. From scheduling “water cooler chats” on Zoom to weekly team check-ins, our community is more important than it ever has been. One thing that continues to […]
Collaborating in Tableau: Neat Lessons Learned from Messy Projects, Part 1
Have you experienced this? You have a fun idea for a dashboard. Just a little side project for your Tableau Public profile. You start out enthusiastically, full of excitement about the possibilities. But then you find yourself on version three, version four … version eleven … version “Will this ever be done?!” Endless revisions are […]
Global Company, Tight-knit Culture: Staying Connected from Afar
Note: This blog post was written before the global pandemic of the coronavirus imposed strict limitations on much of the world. Thus, it seems supremely apropos to share this now in light of encompassing restrictions on a large part of the global workforce. One of the greatest parts of InterWorks is our culture and how […]
Zero to Snowflake: The Nuances of Cloning
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 kept low without limiting potential. To quote Snowflake’s documentation directly: […]