Webinar Replay: Interactive Dashboard Tips & Tricks
Interactive dashboards are where Tableau really comes into its own. As a Creator, you can build something that lets your users explore and answer questions you didn’t even think to design for. But while we know that interactive dashboards are valuable, many users will find themselves using only a tiny fraction of the options available […]
Advance with Assist: Highlighting Points of Interest
Question: I want to allow my user to easily see a custom value that is connected to a highlighted point on my time series chart. How can I do this in a way that can also interact with a dashboard action to give these values more prominence and context for the user? Client Scenario You […]
Snowflake, Matillion and InterWorks Accelerating Success in Asia-Pacific
Call it kismet or just plain-old great collaboration, but the relationship between Snowflake, Matillion and InterWorks continues to produce some real data magic. We’ve worked together for a few years now, but 2020 was a particularly notable year (in a good way) in terms of helping others streamline the way they work with their data, […]
How to Stage Email Attachment Data with Matillion
Transferring datasets via email is definitely not ideal, and while we try to avoid it as much as we can, there are occasions where our data providers do not have the resources to provide their datasets any other way. Maybe they are able to implement better, more elegant ways of providing their data such as […]
Exploring dbt Cloud vs. Core
In our previous post, we briefly introduced dbt and an emerging role on modern data teams called an analytics engineer. If you’ve had a chance to dig into dbt, you’ve likely asked the questions, “What is dbt Core?” and “What is dbt Cloud?”. In this post, we hope to add some clarity to these questions and give […]
A Data Viz of U.S. Lumber Prices in 2021
My wife and I moved into our downsized home three years ago. Our timing was good. There was some available inventory, and we were able to purchase a very nice home for a reasonable price. This weekend we received a letter from a realtor who is representing a buyer that wants to purchase a house […]
Getting Started with Python Scripts in Tableau Prep
In the last few years, we have seen an ever-growing number of codeless data-prep solutions made available to analysts and developers. At InterWorks, we are constantly vetting these technologies, especially those that are extensible with powerful integrations with scripting languages like Python. Tableau Prep is among the tools we like, as it brings custom scripting, […]
5 grundlegende Tipps für Tableau Tabellenberechnungen
In diesem Monat geht es um fünf wichtige Tipps für die Tabellenberechnungen. Die sind nämlich eine ganz besondere Funktion innerhalb von Tableau. Erst mal einfach zu bedienen, zeigen sie beim tieferen Eintauchen immer mehr Komplexität. Wir nehmen die Tabellenberechnungen unter die Lupe. Erfahre in diesem Webinar mehr dazu: was Tabellenberechnungen sind und wo sie angewendet […]
The Transformational Power of dbt in Analytics
Many of us have seen the recent news that dbt received another round of funding to continue growing its platform. For those unfamiliar with dbt, now is the perfect time to give you an introduction and discuss how it can play a role in your technology stack. What Is dbt? dbt is short for data […]
Tableau 2021.2 New Feature: Show and Hide Everything!
With the recently released version 2021.2 of Tableau Desktop, Tableau fulfilled a wish I never knew I had: I am now going to use the Show/Hide button on any tiled element on every future dashboard I will ever build! (Well, at least I hope so.) What Is This About? Up until version 2021.1, Tableau offered […]