Password Security: The Do’s, The Don’ts and the Please Just Stop’s
The inspiration for this blog was my seething hatred for overly complex password requirements and a PowerBI report I created to show the math to see if it would help fill my never-ending pit of rage. After discussing the logistics of converting that PowerBI report to a Tableau Dashboard with my buddy Chris Chang from […]
Using VMware’s Avi for Horizon Load Balancing
If your organization already utilizes VMware’s vSphere and you have a need for load balancing in your infrastructure, you’re in luck. VMware incorporated Avi Networks’ load balancing software into their NSX solution. Formally called NSX Advanced Load Balancer, or NSX-ALB (but familiarly just known as “Avi”), this powerful L4-L7 load balancer is easy to deploy, […]
Say Less: How To Ensure Your Tooltips Add Value
We’ve all done it. We’ve completely ignored the warning label. You know, the one we probably see everyday: CAUTION: Contents Hot We ignore it because it’s understood. We just ordered hot coffee or tea, and we expect it to be hot. We see the steam. The warning label adds no value. But perhaps we added […]
Building a Tableau Dashboard for National Donut Day
I heard a week or so ago that National Donut Day was coming up, and it sparked my curiosity about donut day, leading to many long study sessions about everyone’s favorite ring-shaped pastry. I figured the best way to disperse my newly acquired yet useless knowledge about donuts would be to make a fun donut […]
The Cody Ehlers Baseball Project
One amazing thing about InterWorks’ people is that we all come from very diverse backgrounds. Though we all ended up here working with data, some of us have taken an interesting path to get here. Cody Ehlers is not just a talented Strategic Client Manager. After growing up in our very own Stillwater, Oklahoma, he […]
Data Analysts of the Future: The Skills Desperately Needed in an Ever-Changing World
As the professional equivalent of a monkey with a typewriter, I have been watching the news about AI chatbots with both wonder and an ever-present, underlying fear that I will soon be replaced by our machine overlords. The future, it seems, is a mystery to almost everyone in nearly every industry imaginable. The people on […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — May 2023
If you’re reading this, that means you survived Conference Season. Congratulations! If you joined ThoughtSpot online or Tableau in Las Vegas, you probably saw us either hanging around our booth or speaking at a session, so hopefully you said hello! If you missed some of the conferences in the data space this year, don’t panic: we’ve […]
PYD120 – The Journey to ThoughtSpot with Solutions Engineer Hadley (Reuter) Vaca
In this episode of Podcast Your Data, InterWorks’ Content Manager, Garrett Sauls, sits down with ThoughtSpot Solutions Engineer Hadley Vaca to chat about all things data, her time at InterWorks as an intern and her new role at ThoughtSpot.
Understanding Snowflake Alerts and Notifications
Establishing customer trust and satisfaction is crucial for any business, and observability plays a major role in achieving this goal. In fact, it is one of the top trends in the data landscape. To enable more observability and measurability of data workloads, Snowflake has been continuously adding native features. The latest addition is the Snowflake […]
The BI Cantos: Facilitating Data Culture
Environments that encourage learning, sharing and discovery will prosper. Environments that don’t will not achieve high performance. I snickered at this title when I first thought about it. How does one “create” a “data culture” exactly? Previously I discussed training, tracking and reporting successes, all of which are necessary ingredients. You won’t be creating the […]