InterWorks Wins Four 2024 Matillion Emerald Partner Network Awards
It’s officially award season, both in the film industry and for technology consulting partners like InterWorks. On Friday, March 8, our friends and partners at Matillion announced that the InterWorks team won four of their Emerald Partner Network Awards for 2024: Matillion APAC Partner of the Year Matillion Customer Obsessed Award Matillion Partner Champion: Paul […]
How Assist by InterWorks Supports Your Entire Data Stack
Assist by InterWorks has been helping hundreds of InterWorks clients for years now. Assist got its beginnings as an on-demand, Tableau assistance offering connecting users directly with our consultants. Tableau users could easily hop on a call, wherever they are in the world, and chat with Tableau experts who could help them through any issues […]
Comparing Query Performance of Star Schemas vs. Flat Tables
I was doing some performance tuning for a client recently, trying to improve their query performance from a SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse. As part of the benchmarking process, I compared performance of a classic star schema (separate fact and dimension tables) with a single flat table holding everything. With a star schema, the database […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — February 2024
Hey, howdy, hey readers! Welcome back to our monthly blog roundup, where we’re going to list out all of the blogs we published in February for your easy perusal. Scroll through, find a blog that tickles your fancy, and read on! Or, you just came here to see what music I recommend this month. I […]
How To Build a Colored Smooth Funnel in Tableau
As we’ve published before, a funnel is a great way to represent and track a flow or stages in a process. Whether in business, science or engineering, for instance, we can use funnels to easily see and analyze how large or small those stages are, or, in other words, how many elements are reaching each […]
Tableau Hacks: Mark Label Wrapping
A niche one today, but it does come up in some vizzes every now and then. Can you remember the forklift where we use placeholder values like “min(1)” or something similar just to draw a mark in a graph to than use for something else? Well, sometimes you might want to use a placeholder mark […]
Data Virtualization, and Why ELT to Snowflake Is Usually Better
What Is Data Virtualization? Data virtualization is an approach to data integration that can be thought of as an alternative to the more common ETL/ELT + data warehouse based approach. With data virtualization, the source data is left in place and accessed on the fly as required by a client query. A data virtualization application […]
Tableau Hacks: Small Multiples
In Tableau, it is pretty straightforward to build multiple smaller graphs in one view. Want to split this bar chart by country? Add your [Country] dimension to the Row shelf. Want small line charts by [Category] going across? Add the [Category] to the Row shelf. But what if you want to make a grid of […]
Leveraging Published Data Sources in Tableau Pulse
Now that you’ve decided to test drive Pulse, what do you need to get ready? In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the data required to harness the full power of Pulse. Pulse Needs Your Data From earlier posts about Pulse on this blog, you may have seen that Pulse is currently […]
Take Your Pulse: How Does Tableau Pulse Work?
Tableau Pulse is coming — The newest development of the Tableau world, launched and driven by artificial intelligence. Its main goal: To reach that 70% of people within companies that don’t have the word data in their work titles — people who don’t necessarily know how to build a dashboard or have the time to […]