How To Be a Great Presenter
I’ve been with InterWorks for almost a year now. It’s interesting being surrounded by a team of expert consultants. There is quite an immeasurable collection of shared IT and business intelligence experiences represented throughout our organization. And much of the regular scope of work for most of our employees is client-facing, meaning we have hundreds […]
Understanding Micro-Partitions and Clustering in Snowflake
There are several features in Snowflake that contribute to your environment’s performance and scalability. Two of the most important in my experience have been micro-partitions and clustering. In short, micro-partitions are the fundamental storage units of Snowflake, and clustering is a feature that organizes data within micro-partitions based on one or more columns. The two […]
What I Learned from Totally Messing Up Joins and Snowflake Credits
The Day Before: Bringing our Snowflake Data into Tableau As the week began, we entered the development stage of our big intern project. My role thus far has been preparing for development by creating wireframes for the new dashboards. For this project, we used a Snowflake-held data source which we would pull into Tableau and […]
AWS Step Functions: Catch ‘Em All by Loading Pokémon Data from a RESTful API into Snowflake
As modern applications expand in complexity, effectively managing workflows can become a significant challenge. AWS Step Functions provides a comprehensive solution for orchestrating multi-step workflows in the cloud. Whether it’s invoking Lambda functions in Task states, separating branches of execution with Parallel states or running a set of steps for each item in a dataset […]
Track Your KPIs with Tableau Metrics
When businesses progress along the data maturity scale, the volume of data and associated dashboards will start to expand. This is great news! But, it can cause problems along the way. It is likely that your Tableau estate can start getting more difficult to navigate, and some users might get bogged down into much detail. […]
Sentiment Analysis With Native Algorithms in Dataiku
This is the third part of a short series called “Natural Language Processing with Dataiku,” where we are analysing airline reviews. In the first part, we did very basic data preparation, used the Dataiku sentiment analysis plugin and evaluated the model with the help of a confusion matrix. In the second part, we applied some […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — July 2023
If you’re in the northern hemisphere, I’m pretty sure you know how I’m gonna open this monthly roundup: It’s hot. We’re right in the thick of the dog days of summer (and you know I’ll be blasting Florence + The Machine when they’re over.) My rinky dink apartment AC is struggling to keep up with […]
ThoughtSpot 101: Row-Level Security
In this blog, we’re going to cover some fundamentals for a successful Row-Level Security (RLS) implementation in ThoughtSpot. What is RLS? RLS Benefits RLS Use Cases Admin Permissions Overview Group Setup Step–by–Step Instructions Overview Step–by–Step Instructions Option A: Modify ACL Table Option B: Add New ACL Table Row-level security provides the ability to have a […]
Create Real ROI with Data Science
Our new Solutions Spotlight series will focus on client outcomes, use case solutions, impactful new technology and best practices across data and analytics. We’ll cover strategy, governance, user adoption, finding ROI quickly, architecture, agile development, tips and tricks, and more. As part of these series, in our latest webinar we talked about creating real ROI […]
PYD122 – ThoughtSpot Beyond 2023 Recap with Karl Riddett & Ben Young
InterWorks Content Manager Garrett Sauls sits down with Karl Riddett, InterWorks Regional Lead, and Ben Young, InterWorks Regional Director for Americas East, to provide a retrospective on the insights ThoughtSpot Beyond 2023 provided us and how the ThoughtSpot landscape looks a few months post-conference and, perhaps more importantly, post-hype.