How the Portland TUG Survives and Thrives
Getting people together can be hard. Getting people together for a work tool virtually and trying to make it both exciting and consistent is harder. In this article, I’ll be discussing how the Portland Tableau User Group (PDX TUG) leadership team was able to find a sustainable, enjoyable and successful model for keeping our Tableau […]
Maximize Tableau Conference 2022 with the Strategic Session Picker
Attention, in-person Tableau Conference-goers! Like us, you probably spent the past two years with no choice but to take in all the excitement of Tableau Conference from your couch (thanks, Covid). This year, we are so happy for the opportunity to come together again and talk data in person. In our quest to build the […]
How to Combine Values of a Matillion Grid Variable into a Scalar Variable
Recently, I came across a request from a member of the Matillion community to leverage the values of a Matillion grid variable in a SQL Script component. To be more precise, they had populated a grid variable with a list of values and wanted to use an IN statement in a SQL WHERE clause to retrieve any […]
Tableau and Amazon Athena: Sharp, Simple Data Analysis
Today, I will cover how to make these two great platforms, Tableau and Amazon Athena, work together in just a few steps. We will be using the guides provided by AWS and Tableau as reference points to effectively open a connection from Tableau to a CSV file that will be stored in an S3 bucket. […]
Opening the InterWorks Blog’s Virtual Time Capsule
InterWorks is a company that’s been around for more than a quarter century. In the grand scheme of things, that could be argued as the blink of an eye. For instance, the oldest company in the world was Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd., which was founded in 578 CE and was fully independent until 2006. So, […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – April 2022
Another month has passed, which means it’s time for another blog roundup! We’re deep in the throes of preparation for ThoughtSpot’s upcoming Beyond 2022 conference and Tableau’s TC22, but we’ve made sure to include some extra special blog content for you in the meantime. Take a look at the list here of April’s InterWorks blogs: […]
Webinar Replay: Intro to Natural Language for Business Intelligence
Video replays for this webinar are available at the bottom of the blog. Today, we’re going to dive into the world of Natural Language Processing (NLP), some popular industry use cases for NLP and how you can leverage NLP in a common business intelligence workflow. Natural Language Processing at a Glance NLP is a suite […]
Spotlight on ThoughtSpot: Poised for Enterprise Data Success
Welcome to part four of our introductory series on ThoughtSpot. We at InterWorks are very excited about ThoughtSpot, and we would love to help you and your organization understand how ThoughtSpot can help you in your data and analytics journey. If you missed the prior three parts, you’ll want to visit them before reading this […]
InterWorks Sponsoring ThoughtSpot Beyond 2022 as a Gold Partner
For the first time, InterWorks is joining the lineup at ThoughtSpot’s Beyond 2022, one of the biggest data and analytics events of the year. Not only that, but we’re going all in as an official Gold Partner! Our relationship with ThoughtSpot started in July of 2021, and since then, ThoughtSpot has been a fantastic addition […]
Tableau Dashboard: Create a Starter Workbook
Do you have a style guide but have trouble getting your analysts and teams to incorporate it into their dashboard development? Are you tired of all your dashboards not having a consistent look and feel? These problems are more common for data analytics teams than you might think. At InterWorks, we’ve got a solution that […]