InterWorks Blog Roundup — June 2023
Variety was the name of the game in June, with the vast majority of our blogs not falling into one particular bucket. From highlights of InterWorkers to event recaps to Curator releases, we had a lot on our plate this last month of the first half of 2023, and we’re excited to keep up the […]
Tableau Prep Builder for Beginners: Going from Raw Data to Dashboard
Have you ever wondered how Tableau Prep Builder can help your data flow game? I’m a beginner at using Tableau Prep, and I think having a low-fidelity tutorial is the perfect way to help new users understand the platform’s basic of use cases. In this blog, I will cover how to find data and then […]
Skills for Conflict Resolution in Consulting
At InterWorks, we pride ourselves on making genuine connections with our clients and delivering excellent value and service at the same time. We’ve written about our approach to great consulting in a blog series, and I’ve called out the particular soft skills for consultants that are critical to success. However, learning how to be a […]
Develop Purpose-Built BI Dashboards with InterWorks’ Solution Design Sprint
Let’s be honest, most things dashboard developers build for their users don’t meet those users’ needs. There’s a reason Googling “dashboards are dead” can lead you down a rabbit hole compelling enough to sack the whole team and dust off your own SQL skills. What about those BI teams? They use buzzwords like “KPI” and […]
Getting SaaSy with Matillion’s Data Productivity Cloud
In today’s tech landscape, the rapid increase of data and the migration of systems to the cloud has significantly diversified the range of data loading and processing tools available. For a data engineer, it’s like being in a room full of different instruments, each with its own sound. They need to find a way to […]
Building Solutions with InterWorks at Corinium’s Data Architecture Conference in Melbourne
InterWorks was a proud sponsor of the Data Architecture Conference hosted by Corinium in Melbourne on 21 and 22 June 2023. Hundreds of data professionals gathered to hear about the latest trends, explore use cases and hear about the latest features in the future roadmap from the vendor landscape. It was great to speak to […]
Ten Questions for ChatGPT about Tableau and Level of Detail Expressions
I had some fun with ChatGPT asking it questions about cohort analysis this week. I’ll spare you the 4,000 words it created on general questions I prompted on cohort analysis and focus on the topics related to Tableau, Level of Detail expressions and cohort analysis in Tableau. The text is unaltered, except for marking my […]
Live Snowflake Summit 2023
5 Tips for Financial Dashboarding
Back in my days working in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), my job was rooted in data storytelling. I developed forecasts, ad hoc analyses, models and dashboards to help drive and empower decisions with data. Financial dashboarding, like any other skill, has a learning curve with its own obstacles. So, How Do You Do Financial […]
PYD121 – Tableau Conference 2023 Recap with Mat Hughes & Keith Dykstra
InterWorks’ Content Manager Garrett Sauls sat down with Solutions Architecture Director, Americas, Mat Hughes and Analytics Lead Keith Dykstra to take stock of the announcements made at TC23 and what direction we see the data space going.