Debriefing My Trip to Dataiku HQ
Recently, David Siegel, Rachel Kurtz and I spent the day with the team over at Dataiku HQ in New York to learn about the platform and celebrate the release of the new DSS 5.0. It was a very productive and enlightening day—I learned a ton about the power and various capabilities of the platform. Collaboration My […]
Introducing InterWorks Assist Now: Live Support for Your Data Needs
The Evolution of InterWorks Assist InterWorks Assist was launched back in 2016 for clients who needed quick, personal attention to their requests via email. As the offering continued to grow, we thought about how we could make it even easier for clients to access our experts. Introducing Assist Now – the live chat tool that […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Public Pages and Dashboards
How to Create Public Pages The most commonly used feature of our portal is one that is easily overlooked: it is the ability to protect content behind a login. However, sometimes you have content that should be public. Maybe you’ve got a “Contact Us” page, information on how to get access to the portal, or […]
Portals for Tableau 101: Inline Commenting on Dashboards
Are you so accustomed to sharing your insightful opinions on the day’s biggest headlines via Facebook comments that it just irks you not to be able to with your company’s Tableau dashboard? Well, the days of being unheard are over because Portals for Tableau supports inline commenting! This post will cover how to set this […]
Stuck on a Tableau Chart? Try Drawing It First!
For this week’s #MakeoverMonday project, I wanted to build a divergent stacked bar chart. I used to create these charts every so often in my last job, but I did it by opening up an old Tableau workbook and mindlessly copying the calculations and setup of the worksheet without really understanding what was going on. […]
Advance with Assist: Using Custom Backgrounds with Polygon Shapefiles
You have a shapefile. You have a custom background. They belong together. Now it’s just a matter of figuring out how to make it work in Tableau … This is a common challenge we get in both Tableau training and through InterWorks Assist. The best way to illustrate how this holy union is to naturally […]
InterWorks Named 2018 Snowflake Solution Partner of the Year
We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks was just named the 2018 Snowflake Solutions Partner of the Year! Here’s how it went down. Snowflake Computing, the creators of what we believe to be the best data warehouse out there, recently called all their partners to Sonoma, California, for a summit. As a Snowflake partner, we sent […]
PYD67 – Disney Data & Analytics Conference 2018 Recap
Who doesn’t love a little magic? Many of us at InterWorks are HUGE fans of Disney. So when we heard about Disney Data and Analytics Conference, we knew it was one we had to check out. Ben and Robert graciously and humbly volunteered to be our warthogs guinea pigs and they had a blast. Of […]
The Top 5 Features in Dataiku 5.0
Data users rejoice! Dataiku 5.0 has been released, and it brings with it fresh new features. Dataiku has always been an amazing tool for building data products as a team. With the release of Dataiku 5.0, they’ve made the tool even better. Their focus in this release was on enabling your team to communicate better […]
Data Always Tells a Story: Salary Disparity in Major League Baseball
The Journey Begins In my 18+ year career, I’ve been around data in many different forms and fashions. From roles as a DBA to those in innovation and business intelligence, data has always been integral to what I do. I love data. I can remember playing around with Excel back in the early 90s in […]