Zero to Snowflake: Secure Data Sharing
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 maddening Facebook comments in ways that people dared not think […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – January 2020
This month, we hit refresh on a new year and a new decade, aiming to breathe new life into existing solutions and reframe the way we think about and approach our work. In looking to lay a strong foundation for the year to come, we kicked things off strong on the blog with 23 posts […]
Freedom of the Press Data Viz
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, quality of life or simply closer to each other. Freedom […]
Remembering My Friend Deepak Ghodke
It was deeply troubling to hear on Monday that my good friend and professional associate Deepak Ghodke passed away on Sunday while running in a half-marathon. It’s taken me a couple of days to absorb this news. Deepak was only 47 years old. He left a wife, Grishmi, and daughter, Anura. My heart goes out […]
Why Feedback Matters: Exploring Typeform Surveys
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 experience, which—let’s face it—can be tough to deliver at times. […]
My Epiphany About Using Tableau for Financial Reporting, Part 1
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 my class (made up of professionals doing the course […]
What Is an API?
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 is sometimes called a communication protocol. As we move into […]
Hit Refresh: A New(ish) Perspective on Tech Talent for 2020
Often, the focus of forward-thinking tech blogs is on what revolutionary solutions are on the horizon. This new platform will forever change X. This new tool will streamline the way you do Y. There’s nothing wrong with that—in fact, we have just the blog for you if that’s more your speed. But what gets lost […]
PYD97 – Ten Years of Tech
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 rewarding moments from the last 10 years, how working in […]
Zero to Snowflake: Loading and Querying Semi-Structured JSON Data
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 and is supported by Snowflake, along with other formats like […]
