OKC Thunder Reunites the OKC Tableau User Group
About two weeks ago, the Oklahoma City Thunder hosted the first meeting of the Oklahoma City Tableau User Group in nearly three years! Like many other user groups, regular meetings were put on hold during the bulk of the COVID pandemic. The recent meeting brought together 65 connections, old and new, breathing new life into […]
Data What? Knowing Your Data Terms
It’s kind of hard keeping track of terms in the world of data. It seems like every time you turn around, there’s a new concept, idea, implementation, tool or even argument about data. To contribute to the confusion, each and every idea is given a new name and every name, it seems, starts with the […]
Let’s Talk Design Principles
There is a plethora of elements that go into a successful dashboard. Organizing these elements can be incredibly intimidating. So, how can we make the design process easy to understand and implement? What Are Design Principles? Why Are They Important for Dashboarding? Design principles are the tenets that define users’ interpretation of what they’re consuming […]
Tableau: The Total Gym of Data Visualization
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Installing dbt with Mac M1 Chips
Have you encountered errors trying to install older versions of dbt on your fancy, new MacBook? This could be related to compatibility issues with the new M1 CPU. Dependency packages written for Intel CPUs can cause issues preventing proper installation. But don’t worry, Apple provides an Intel emulator called Rosetta. Below are the steps that […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup — September 2022
Well, we survived the heat of the summer! With autumn on our doorstep and the summer heat finally breaking here in the northern hemisphere, our US and EMEA teams are looking forward to dusting off our boots, jackets and pants again. For me, personally, I’ll just be glad to not sweat every time I even […]
New Considerations for Migrating from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud
It’s been a minute since we looked at the process to migrate from your own Tableau Server onto the Tableau-hosted SaaS offering Tableau Cloud. If you’re considering the move, below is an updated list of considerations that could impact your decision process. Updated User Considerations Tableau Cloud requires multi-factor authentication, which can be achieved via two […]
Leveraging Snowflake’s ODBC Driver on Modern MacOS
If you’re a macOS user and use Tableau Desktop, you may be familiar with the continued problems with Snowflake drivers. The move from Intel-based processors to the new Apple Silicon chips has brought changes in potential drivers and issues configuring these to work correctly with your system. This guide will allow you to start using […]
How to Set Up a Published Data Source in Tableau
Congratulations! You’ve just rolled out Tableau and are beginning to onboard users. Everyone is excited and ready to get started using Tableau. People are off building dashboards and reports, but then the inevitable happens. “Wait a minute, these numbers don’t look right.” “Why does this dashboard say we had $28,000 in sales, but this one […]
SCIM and User Management for Snowflake with Azure AD
This is the second part of the three-part series on SSO and user provisioning. This one is a follow up on my previous post, which went over the core concepts of how SSO (and SCIM) work. Now we are going to delve deeper into actually setting SCIM user provisioning between Azure AD and Snowflake. Links […]