This Old Viz: Toyota Edition
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 is the original spreadsheet from the Toyota website: […]
Zero to Snowflake: Role-Based Security Access
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 someone access to our house or let someone in who […]
InterWorks Is the Blueprint: Executive Advocacy & Project Teams
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 Tableau successfully. InterWorks has had our own “blueprint” for helping […]
New Year’s Resolution: Tableau Tips to Go from Junior to Jedi
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 that will take you from a padawan to a power […]
Data Goals for 2020
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 year, we’re taking a closer look at how we can […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – December 2019
And just like that, another decade is in the books. But don’t worry; this good thing doesn’t have to come to an end. Find all of the content we released last month in this blog roundup. While it may have been a quieter month on the blog this December, we were busy in the real […]
Zero to Snowflake: Python and Snowflake
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 for use. Prerequisites Before you can install the Python connector […]
PYD96 – Iron Viz with Lindsey Poulter, Hesham Eissa and Joshua Smith
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 from the competition and how they prepared for—and dominated!—the event.
Zero to Snowflake: Importing Data with Code via SnowSQL
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 post will demonstrate. Setting the Stage for SnowSQL There […]
Chapter One: How the InterWorks Book Club Began
It was October 2018, and I’d been at InterWorks for a mere handful of weeks. Starting a new job of any kind is an adjustment, but moving from education to technology was a bigger jump than I’d anticipated. I was having a conversation with a colleague about how much I loved to read and how, […]
