Using PGP Encryption to Protect Your Data
Have you ever heard someone say that they never lock their doors? This practice implies that we live in a world where bad people do not exist, that you are not exposing yourself to any risk by doing so, or that nothing bad ever happens around here. Today, this could not be further from the […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – January 2021
Happy New Year! We are eager and hopeful as we’re shifting our gaze away from 2020 and looking ahead at 2021. The year on the blog is off to a great start with 14 solid posts and contributions from 22 of our team members, including some year-end reflections from our CEO, Behfar. This month’s highlights […]
Time Capsule 2020: Society and Culture
In the second part of our Time Capsule 2020 blog, we turn to those events and ideas that demanded our attention outside of the technology industry (you can find that post here), whether by the urgency of their cause or as a result of our desire for self-distraction. As a reminder, here was the prompt […]
InterWorks Expands Strategic Partnership with Matillion in Australia
Over the past few years, InterWorks and our clients have received immense value from Matillion’s data transformation capabilities for cloud data warehouses. Loved by our global team, Matillion has carved out a firm place in our recommended technology stack for organizations of all shapes and sizes. That’s why we’re excited to share that we’re expanding […]
Advance with Assist: Pointing Tableau to a Named Range
Question: I have multiple tables on a single Excel sheet. Can Tableau point to a specific range of cells in Excel, or do I need to make new sheets? The Challenge In an ideal situation, you will always want to structure your data so that it is easy for Tableau to read when connecting. But […]
What’s New in Tableau 2020.4
As always, Tableau delivers on its newest release. There are plenty of great advancements in Tableau 2020.4, but there are two themes that stand out the most to me: maps and SaaS upgrades. The days are quickly approaching where you’ll feel like one of the grandparents in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and say, “I […]
Time Capsule 2020: Technology and Data
It goes without saying (though the whole point of this blog is to say it) that 2020 was a year unlike any other. For many of us, what come to mind first are the negative aspects of the year: COVID, wildfires, social injustice, isolation. But there were also good things to remember from last year: […]
The Sound of InterWorks: Spotify Wrapped 2020
What a year. A year with so much potential for puns (think: hindsight is 2020, 2020 vision … if only) turned out to be quite different. Rather than sounding like a good joke, many people will forever react to hearing “2020” the same way characters in Monty Python and the Holy Grail react to the […]
Adventures in Alteryxland, Part 1
A couple of months into my life at InterWorks, I was asked to shadow an Alteryx project for a client. Well, I did not actually end up shadowing; it became more of an Alteryx challenge set by the project lead. “Robin, instead of you just staring at what I am doing, can you take these […]
Understanding PREVIOUS_VALUE in Tableau
How the heck does this function work? You know what? I have been working with (and teaching) Tableau for over five years. Have a guess at when I finally understood the PREVIOUS_VALUE function … It was yesterday. And let’s get one thing straight right away: If you want to show the previous values of your […]
