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.
How to Start Learning Tableau Prep
Learning a new tool can be daunting, especially if you are starting from square one with little to no experience. That’s why I’ve outlined a small list of free learning resources and exercises for a beginner with no experience to transition into a more intermediate user, or if you’re more experienced, these will give you […]
ThoughtSpot 101: 5 Tips for Creating Really Good Liveboards
In our last blog, we gave you some tips on how to create worksheets that will bring your users a delightful search analytics experience, but what if you want to build some pre-built analyses for users needing to quickly consume visual data that can then be customized and drilled into futher? Enter ThoughtSpot liveboards! Let’s […]
