The Hidden Gems of Tableau Desktop 2021.3

The summer update of the Tableau platform has given us a few new features for Tableau Server, as well as for Tableau Desktop. Let’s have a look at what was released: Notification Integration with Slack: Notifications for alerts, @mentions and sharing; visit our blog post for more details on these new integrations. Custom Sample Workbooks: […]
InterWorker Brittany Dunn Inducted into Splash Field Marketer’s Hall of Fame

We are so excited to announce yet another esteemed award for a member of our team! Brittany Dunn, InterWorks’ Partner Marketing Manager, was recently inducted into the Splash Field Marketer’s Hall of Fame. Splash is an innovative event marketing partner we’ve been teaming up with to deliver events smoothly and conveniently to clients. As a […]
Wie steigert man die Nutzerakzeptanz von Tableau Server oder Tableau Online mit Hilfe von Trainer-geführten Workshops

Die Tableau-Plattform ist eine Suite innovativer und intuitiver Tools. Als ich 2009 anfing mit Tableau Desktop zu arbeiten, war ich gerade mal in der Lage, einfache Dashboards zu erstellen. Das Unternehmen, mit dem ich damals zusammenarbeitete, verwendete zum ersten Mal Visual Analytics, um Entscheidungen zu treffen. Ich nutzte einige kostenfreie Tableau Trainings-Videos aus dem Internet. […]
InterWorks Partners with Dremio to Power Interactive Analytics on Data Lake Storage

We’re thrilled to announce that InterWorks is officially joining Dremio’s Global Partner Network! Dremio is an exciting company with the aim of enabling high-performing business intelligence dashboards and interactive analytics directly on the data lake. As a Dremio Consulting & SI Partner, InterWorks will utilize Dremio to help clients that have made significant investment in […]
Inside InterWorks: The Importance of Content in Marketing, Part 1

Riffing on our previous series format, this two-part blog will provide a look at the inner workings of the InterWorks Marketing Team and how content is the anchor point for so much of what we do. In this post, I’ll highlight different members of the Marketing Team, how their specialty intersects with content and how […]
How to Clean up Temporary Matillion Stages in Snowflake

When using Matillion to load data into Snowflake, temporary stages are often created in Snowflake to store the data before it lands in the destination table. Often, this is not an issue as Matillion provides a handy load option called “Clean Staged Files,” which cleans up these stages. For example, this is a possible load […]
Webinar-Wiedergabe – Datenvorbereitung in Tableau Desktop
Daten sind selten perfekt. Und wie wir wissen, kommt es auf die Vorbereitung an – mit schlecht aufbereiteten Daten riskieren wir langsame oder ungenaue Ergebnisse. In einer idealen Welt würden wir unsere Datenvorbereitung in der Datenquelle selbst oder in etwas wie Tableau Data Prep erstellen, was uns eine konsistente (und vermutlich schnellere) Datenquelle für Tableau […]
Implementing Advanced Capabilities in dbt

After you’ve finished setting up your dbt environment and begun working in dbt, you may find that you’ll need more than just the basics. As mentioned in The Transformational Power of dbt in Analytics, dbt allows data teams to leverage the capabilities of software engineering teams. Here, we are going to talk about dbt’s more advanced capabilities […]
Working with Dates in Tableau: Optimizing Date Selection Logic

In the previous post, we discussed the benefits of supplementing traditional to-date reporting periods with rolling periods. In this post, we will dive into the optimal practices (and not-so-optimal practices) for creating the logic for effective Date Selection calculations in Tableau Desktop. Common Date Functions Before we get too technical, let’s review some of common […]
Title Case Formatting in Tableau Prep with RegEx

We have all seen this problem in data transformation: names automatically becoming CAPITALISED NAMES or all lowercase names. If we have a list of cities consisting of only one word, it is quite straightforward to capitalise the first one using the following code: UPPER(left([Data],1)) + LOWER(right([data],LEN([data])-1)) However, what if our name field consists of 1-4 […]