PYD60 – Tableau Conference Europe 2018, Part 2
Tableau Conference Europe 2018 is next week! Besides making last-minute preparations, David Pires finishes up talking to some fantastic people in the data community that you can meet at TC18Europe – Tristan Guillevin, Sarah Bartlett, Rebecca Roland, Simon Beaumont and Tableau’s Sara Fernandes. We hope to see you in London; stop by our booth and […]
Advance with Assist: Filtering Select Dates with DATETRUNC
Welcome to the first edition of “Advancing with Assist.” This week’s question came from a newer user to Tableau who asked: “I only need values before the first day of the current month. Is there an easier way than excluding the month manually each time my data is updated?” The InterWorks Assist team hopped on […]
Tables in Tableau: Jazzing It Up with a Purpose, Part 1
In the world of data visualisation, there is a love-hate relationship with tables, also known as crosstabs. The truth is, as with any other type of data visualisation, tables have a space in the analytical world and are customarily used or even required by some industries, such as finance where the appetite for balance sheets, […]
LGBTQ Acceptance and Media Portrayal
This coming weekend, hundreds of thousands of people will be celebrating Pride in some of the largest gatherings around the world. In the United States alone, revelers in San Francisco, New York City and Seattle will come together to celebrate love, diversity and, of course, progress. Quantifying Progress When mulling over what I wanted to […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – May 2018
It seems like the warm temps are heating everything up, including the InterWorks blog! This month was a smorgasbord of different pieces. We saw event previews and recaps. There were a handful of Tableau vizzes (including an excellent Viz for Social Good piece on diversity in tech). We had some detailed walkthroughs on the power of […]
InterWorks Makes the 2018 CRN Solution Provider 500
We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks was recently named to the 2018 CRN Solution Provider 500! This is the fourth year InterWorks has received this honor, and it only reaffirms our commitment to providing quality IT and data solutions for our clients. For those unfamiliar with the CRN Solution Provider 500, this program honors IT solution […]
Unlock Your SAP Data on the Snowflake Data Warehouse with Attunity and InterWorks
The world’s largest enterprises run their infrastructure on Oracle, DB2, SQL and their critical business operations on SAP applications. Organisations need this data to be available in real-time to conduct necessary analytics. However, delivering this heterogeneous data at the speed it’s required can be a huge challenge due to the complex underlying data models, structures […]
My Machine Learning Journey: Reinforcement Learning
When you ask someone a question, you likely have an idea of how the answer should be presented to you. For example, people will typically give you a specific time of day if you ask when they’re free for lunch. If you follow up by asking them if they’re a vegetarian, you’re probably expecting a […]
Visualising the Gender Pay Gap Across Australia
I was raised by a single mother. For many years, my mother was the sole breadwinner of the family. Though she worked hard to provide my brother and me with the best opportunities while growing up, she faced greater challenges as a woman than her male counterparts in the same industry and role. Keeping in […]
The Ease of Working with JSON in Snowflake
After attending an in-depth technical training in Dallas, Texas, I thought it could be beneficial to give some examples of how Snowflake is unique in a series of blog posts moving forward. This week, I’m talking about JSON (although Snowflake’s functionality displayed in the article can be applied to most semi-structured data). JSON is JavaScript […]
