The 2019 Gartner BI Magic Quadrant Visualized in Tableau
Not too long ago, Gartner released their updated Magic BI Quadrant for 2019. This quadrant ranks the industries top BI platforms on both execution and completeness of vision. Since it’s become a bit of a tradition for me to visualize the results in Tableau, I thought I’d update my viz for 2019. There are three […]
Webinar Replay: Alteryx Tips – The Best Three Techniques I Have Learned
Running into roadblocks during your data analysis can be frustrating. It can be even more challenging to encounter the same issues over and over. In this webinar, analytics consultant Stephanie Kennedy shares tips that she’s discovered over her 20 years of working with data. This webinar highlights Stephanie’s three favorite Alteryx techniques and how […]
Using the Matillion API Query Profile
After last week’s Airtable post, I’m sure all of our readers have been anxiously sitting on the edge of their seats. By now, I hope some of you have had the opportunity to explore Airtable and begin building bases. While I touched on the Airtable’s visualization capabilities, it is likely that if you’re a recurring […]
Quantified 103: Data Storage
Once you’ve collected the data, you need a way to store it, right? What good is collecting it if you can’t properly store it in a way that’s easy to keep and also easy to recall? This week, Garrett is joined by solutions architect Matthew Brimer to talk about all the different ways data can […]
InterWorks Receives a Cloud Partner of the Year Award from Ingram Micro for 2018
Recently, Ingram Micro held its annual Cloud Summit, a multi-day conference that brings together not only some of the brightest technology resellers and partners but also some of the biggest, like Microsoft and Amazon. As part of the Summit, Ingram hands out awards to some of their most outstanding partners to honor achievements from the […]
Building Signal-Based Models with Cross-Validation
One challenge in building analytical models involves separating signal from noise. Signal describes the patterns we consider “real” in the sense that we believe they reflect a true relationship between the factors we’re analyzing. For instance, if our data indicates that a person’s height is related to her weight, we’d probably consider that signal. Noise, […]
PYD79 – Tell Me I’m Wrong
Join Ben Bausili, Katie Wagner and Michael Treadwell on this episode of PYD. Together, they tackle some hot topics within the data community, including the 2019.2 Tableau Beta. On this episode, we also premiere a new PYD segment called “Tell Me I’m Wrong.”
P-Values and the Reductio Ad Unlikely
Relying on p-values to reach business decisions is common, which is reason for concern. Conducting analysis that’s too heavily based on p-values and engages in an unfettered quest for statistical significance can lead to decisions that are fundamentally unsound. To understand why, we’re going to go all the way back to Ancient Greece. Reductio Ad […]
Cloud-Based Data Collection with Airtable
Welcome, diligent readers of the InterWorks blog. Today, I am kicking off a great two-part blog. Internally, we have been tossing around conversation about a really unique tool called Airtable. Overview Airtable is a cloud-based spreadsheet-database-formbuilder piece of technology that offers a very unique approach to the way people collect data. In the first part […]
Quantified 102: Data Collection
On this episode of Quantified, host Garrett Sauls welcomes back InterWorks analytics consultant and training lead Katie Wagner to discuss data collection. Katie shares some manual and automated processes for acquiring data, responsibilities and ethics that inherently come with data collection, and important questions we can ask to enhance data accuracy. Join us for our […]