Introducing CBI Studio from InterWorks
If you liked the legendary Drawing Tool, you’re going to love this new tool! Meet Custom Background Image Studio, also known as CBI Studio. CBI Studio builds out and completes the creative experience for users. With CBI Studio, you can get everything you need regarding custom shapes without jumping in and out of different tools. […]
Using Slack for Error Alerts in Your Data Pipeline
Any data pipeline will fail from time to time. Errors can come from hardware failures, networking issues or simple bugs. Sometimes, an error can occur because somebody forgot to update a password or pay the bill for a cloud service. To keep things running, you need a mechanism for logging errors and sending notifications to […]
The New Features of Tableau 2021.4
Tableau version 2021.4 was released in December, and there are plenty of new features making our lives as Tableau users easier. The new release has a strong focus on expanding Tableau’s ecosystem through integration and connection to other apps. But Tableau Desktop received some new strong features as well, and since there are so many […]
Tableau 2021.4 New Feature: Copy and Paste
Finally, it has arrived: the ability to copy and paste in Tableau. Some things are just worth waiting for. Okay, so maybe I’m a bit of a nerd, but this one has felt like waiting for the latest James Bond to come out or Christmas morning as a kid (okay, that one might be a […]
Options for Row-Level Security in Tableau
Now that you know you need Row-Level Security (RLS) and you are familiar with the basic concepts and building blocks, we can take a deeper look at the different RLS models we can build within Tableau. Just remember, reality often provides a lot more nuance than these examples, so there are times when components of […]
An Introduction to Natural Language: Why Practitioners Should Care
In this blog, we are going to talk about natural language; a subset of linguistics that has helped us develop rules and methods that allow patterns in our language to be interpreted, classified and contextualized. The booming field of natural language (NL) research has contributed to some of the most revolutionary technologies in the last […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – December 2021
Hello, 2022! Another year is here, and we’re excited to discover all of the new changes and innovations it will bring. Our last month on the blog featured 15 new posts and 16 contributors and covered lots of foundational tips to start the new year off right. We also shared highlights from some of our […]
dbt Coalesce 2021 in Review
Wow! What a great conference dbt put on this month. The conference gave us great insights into some work a few dbt enthusiasts are working on. Let’s dive into some of my favorite topics covered during the conference. For those of you who missed it, luckily you are able to watch any of the presentations […]
My Top Five Tableau Prep Solutions
Tableau Prep has tons of options, and you may have seen gurus pull off some truly fantastic tricks. But what should you focus on? Drawing from my work as a consultant and doing on-demand support via Assist by InterWorks, I’ve summarized my top five Prep go-to secrets: five basics to help you conquer a countless […]
12 Days of Vizmas: InterWorks APAC Hackathon 2021
We have all had a tough year. To round it out, we invited a bunch of our clients in Australia and throughout Asia Pacific to take part in an exclusive hackathon, run over 12 days in the lead-up to Christmas (hence the name). Thank you to all of you for taking the time of out […]