Creating a Sigma App to Track Company Flights and Carbon Emissions
While browsing our Snowflake sandbox, I came across a dataset tracking InterWorkers’ work flights and the corresponding carbon footprint each generated. Instantly, I imagined building an interactive decision app: a central hub where employees could request flights and supervisors could approve them while keeping carbon emissions in check company. Form Meets Function The result is […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — August 2025
Can you feel it? In the air — change. We’ve finally hit the -ber months, which means that thing are getting cooler around the InterWorks headquarters. We’re eyeing our sweatshirts, pumpkin spice lattes, and just hoping and praying that we can finally stop turning into a puddle every time we step into the sun. In […]
Pixel Perfect Pages in Sigma
When I first started working with Sigma I was not sure if the tool would be able to create dashboards with the same high fidelity look as their competitors, such as Tableau. The grid layout’s ease of use and approachability for newcomers was a plus, but I had reservations about limitations around graphics and formatting. […]
The Biggest Pain Points for Data and Analytics Leaders: Strategy
As we continue our blog series broken out from the “Biggest Pain Points for Data and Analytics Leaders” white paper, we set our sights on the third most common challenge: strategy. The Problem One of the biggest challenges for data leaders is noise. There are often so many distracting fires that present themselves as something […]
Tableau Dashboarding 101: Create a “Reset All” Filters Button
When delivering dashboards for our clients, it’s easy to get caught up in the layout, containers and design while ensuring the experience is up to corporate standards and is “production” ready. For me, it’s oftentimes the little things that matter most in life. And with dashboards, it’s more of the same. As filters generally sit […]
The Biggest Pain Points for Data and Analytics Leaders: People Resourcing
For the second blog in this series, which was originally sourced from my white paper on common challenges faced by data and analytics leaders, we dive into the challenge of people resourcing. While the figures here are based on the Australian market, the core challenges and solutions are still applicable for companies across the globe. […]
Modeling the Known Universe in Tableau
When tasked with the ambiguous project to “create a dashboard,” I spun my wheels for a while trying to think of the perfect idea for my first Tableau Public dashboard. If you know me, you know I am a “recovering” perfectionist, and the worst thing you can do to someone like me is give me […]
The Biggest Pain Points for Data and Analytics Leaders: Data Governance
Late last year, I wrote a white paper that identified what the biggest pain points were for data and analytic leaders. The information was based on a multi-industry survey conducted across hundreds of clients, which provided insight on the main problems. From there, we took the time to formulate potential solutions rooted in decades of […]
Semantic Layer in Sigma: A Beginner’s Guide to Data Models
Many Sigma users start by creating a new workbook and pulling in warehouse tables as their data source. This often means doing extra prep work, joining tables, renaming columns or building aggregations, all within each workbook. That logic stays locked in the workbook, making it non-reusable and leading to repeated work and inconsistent reporting. Data […]
You Are Not The Average Customer
Software is designed for the average customer, but the truth is that no customer is the actual average. That’s why we’re always dealing with trade-offs. Our tool process flow doesn’t quite match the reality of our business. The analytics dashboard doesn’t quite capture the right metrics. The CRM stages don’t fit the way we think […]
