InterWorks Blog Roundup – August 2021
Another month, another roundup! In August, we published 14 new pieces of content and featured 20 contributors to the blog, including a couple first-time bloggers! Our team shares all kinds of data tidbits and new knowledge, from a mini-series on the emerging power of dbt to an annual data viz favorite. Plus, we talk about […]
Webinar Replay: The Data Prep Landscape
Recently, we hosted a webinar that focused on the anchoring question of, What is data prep and what tools can help me with it? “The goal is to turn data into information and information into insight” – Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett Packard We feel like this is everyone’s goal—anyone who is doing statistical analysis, […]
How I Went from Hospitality and Tourism Student to InterWorks Account Executive
For years, I had joked that hospitality was one of the best career fields to go into. The opportunity to live and find work in nearly any country in the world is an attractive thought. My reasoning was that people will always want to eat, lay their head to rest far away from home and […]
Advance with Assist: Adding Field Names Above Bars on a Bar Chart
Question: I would like my users to see the product names above the bars in my bar chart instead of having them on the left of the bar to make it more presentable. How do I achieve this? By having the field name sitting above each bar, the presentation of your bar chart can be […]
Webinar-Wiedergabe – Dashboard-Templates – Fluch und Segen
Dashboard Templates, also vorgefertigte Dashboards mit festgelegtem Platz für Arbeitsblätter und Steuerelemente wie beispielsweise Filter, können Zeit sparen und bessere Ergebnisse liefern. Allerdings ist es dabei entscheidend, wie Du diese Vorlagen erstellst und verwendest. In diesem Webinar lernst Du: 1. was Dashboard-Templates sind und was für oder gegen sie spricht, 2. wie und wann Dashboard […]
Setting up Your dbt Environment
In our last post, we talked about the differences between dbt Cloud and dbt Core. Once you’ve decided which environment works best for your team, it’s time to start development. In this post, we’ll walk through some of the basic setup of dbt and briefly describe why each feature is important. Projects dbt projects are […]
Analytics in Digital Transformation with AWS
The year 2020 produced a mass migration of business processes, enterprise software and internal workloads to AWS in a way that was previously unseen. In the world of data, organizations relied on the flexibility of the cloud to run infrastructure, authentication and analytic workloads at scale across a new distributed workforce. Sharing information became paramount […]
2021 Tableau Fantasy Football Draft Kit
Welcome back to a 100% definitely nothing bad is going to happen year in professional football! Last year’s uncertainty didn’t seem to slow the commitment to Fantasy Football that grips the U.S., and I’ve already heard from many of you eager to draft soon due to the shortened preseason, so our annual update is ready! […]
Advance with Assist: Finding Max Date and More
Question: I have a need to determine my Current Opportunity amount and the change from whatever date was listed prior. It could be the previous week or several weeks ago. Any tips for figuring this out? The second requirement is that I need to aggregate to that week without showing the IDs. This is an […]
Hands-On Snowflake: How to Implement Row-Level Security Using Data Control Tables
Row-level security (RLS) is a data access control concept that pertains to dynamically restricting the rows of data that a certain user can access in a particular dataset. Over the course of my consulting career, I have encountered this business requirement on numerous occasions, such as the need to restrict personally identifiable information (PII) or […]
