Data Mesh — An Independent View
The Quick Version The Data Mesh architecture provides a credible blueprint for managing data at scale. It offers a solution for organisations that are simply too large or complex to be able to centralise all of their data within a single enterprise data warehouse. It enables self-service analytics, democratising access to data. Data mesh does […]
The Latest With Tableau Pulse: Make It Work for You!
If you attended the latest Tableau Conference earlier this spring, or if you’ve spent any time considering the feasibility of a migration to Tableau Cloud, you may be familiar with Tableau Pulse. Tableau Pulse leverages the capabilities of Tableau AI to deliver key insights on-the-go via email or Slack on a daily, weekly or monthly […]
Measuring the Success of Data and Analytics: A Quick Start Guide
In the realm of analytics, measuring success can be a complex endeavor. It’s crucial to differentiate between evaluating the success of your entire analytics platform or practice and measuring the success of individual dashboards, initiatives or products. Each requires a unique approach and set of metrics. Let’s dive into these distinctions and explore how to […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – July 2024
Howdy, blog readers! We’ve got some exciting stuff for you this month. We were an absolute machine with the production this past month, with 20+ blogs handwritten just for you. But before we get into the meat and potatoes this month, let me share a song: Ohio = Hell? Okay, not really. But Bilmuri feels […]
Conditional Calculations in Tableau and Power BI (Video Tutorial)
In the video below, I go over Conditional Calculations using two of the most widely-used data visualisation tools on the market: Tableau by Salesforce and Power BI by Microsoft. Tune in here:
Recap of Current Snowflake Tools
As Snowflake becomes more and more feature rich, we’ve become surrounded by all manner of suffixes to the word “Snow.” In this post, I’ll summarise the tools available and what their intended use is. This is only meant to be a brief overview, so I’ve provided links to learn more about each feature. Snowsight We’ll […]
Intern Dashboards: The Rise and Fall of India’s EdTech Market
The decline of a large enterprise is often the result of numerous small issues compounding over time. However, there is a tendency to focus on less relevant aspects and overlook the single most crucial element: the customers. This case study, presented in the form of a Tableau dashboard, offers a retrospective analysis of the factors […]
Maturing Analytics: Analytics as a Product
Welcome back to our journey in maturing analytics. In Part 3, we discussed why user adoption stumbles and explored different delivery paths for analytics. Now, in Part 4, we will talk about product management. I know — you’re in analytics and data. What does that have to do with products? We should be treating our […]
Intern Dashboards: Spotify Insights on World Music
Being an avid music lover, I always wondered about various factors that make up an entire song. This project provided me an opportunity to do so. I stumbled upon an amazing data source in Kaggle that had authentic Spotify data with a lot of key features for each song scraped using Spotify’s API. Once I […]
Federated Governance: Part Centralised, Part Devolved
Over the last couple of years, there has been a lot of interest in the data mesh architecture first proposed back in 2018 by Zhamak Dehghani. It offers a practical alternative to the previously dominant notion of a single centralised data warehouse. Trying to gather all of an organisation’s data into one place can work […]