Databricks Data and AI Summit Conference Highlights

Jun 18, 2025 Chris Chang | interworks.com

The Databricks Data and AI Summit (DAIS) has once again brought together industry leaders, innovators and data enthusiasts from around the world. There were many exciting announcements, but I’ll focus on the ones that stood out the most and will h...

Data,AI,conference,Databricks,Summit

4 Ways to Use Input Tables for Sigma Data Apps

Jun 18, 2025 Bennett Frohock | interworks.com

Jumping into the world of interactive data apps can be intimidating, and understanding how to set up input tables correctly is vital to creating a functional app. Luckily, InterWorks is here to help. We’ve created a concise guide to clarify how an...

Data,analytics,DataApps,InputTables,Sigma

Multi-Field Formula Tool in Alteryx

Jun 17, 2025 Harry Caplin | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Instead of duplicating the same formula expressions for each field one by one, this powerful tool allows users to write a single expression and apply it to multiple fields simultaneously. It is important to note that the multi-field formula tool c...

Data,analytics,DataApps,datavisualization,Sigma

Concatenating String Fields in Tableau Prep

Jun 17, 2025 Hannah Norfolk | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I came across a big issue whilst concatenating string fields in Tableau Prep, where most results would appear as null despite knowing there should be at least some values present.

Data,analytics,DataApps,datavisualization,Sigma

Transforming a Dashboard to a Decision App with Sigma

Jun 13, 2025 Bennett Frohock | interworks.com

Why Sigma?  For many data users, dashboards represent the end of the data lifecycle. Data is ingested, transformed, cleaned, analyzed and finally visualized to support understanding and decision-making. Dashboards may have different filters or way...

Data,ananlytics,DataApps,datavisualization,Sigma

Sigma for Starters How Data Apps Instantly Hooked Me

Jun 13, 2025 Josias Hernandez Perez | interworks.com

Starting my internship at InterWorks, I was introduced to Sigma – a cloud-based analytics platform that promised to revolutionize the way I approached data. However, I wasn’t prepared for what I was about to discover. From its seamless integration...

Data,analytics,DataApps,datavisualization,Sigma

Can you Iron Viz

Jun 13, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

For this week’s #WOW2025 challenge, I looked to recreate part of Kathryn McCrindle’s TC25 Iron Viz Final dashboard. The main focus was building the ‘cockpit dials’ – the concentric donut charts, but I also wanted to use the challenge to highlight ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2025,BackgroundImage,CustomTheme,DonutChart,IronViz,Makepoint,MapLayers,Week24

The Flerlage Twins Story Part 2 The Rest of the Story

Jun 10, 2025 Ken Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

 A couple weeks ago, we shared part 1of our story, We Started asBabies.Today, we’re picking up the story where we left off, telling the story offormally establishing “The Flerlage Twins” website, our regular presentationsat conferences and user gr...

OurStory,Tableau

Can you create a control chart

Jun 9, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Sean set this table calculation based challenge this week. The key to this was for the reference line & bands to change if any of the non-date related filters were change, but for the values to remain constant regardless of the timeframe being...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2025,DualAxis,Filters,INDEX,parameter,StandardDeviation,TableCalculations,Week23,WINDOW_AVG,WINDOW_MEDIAN,WINDOW_STD

Wordcloud in Tableau

Jun 6, 2025 Stefan Ladwig | www.thedataschool.co.uk

A wordcloud often is a simple way to connect words to a value (size, amount etc.) and thankfully it is very easy to create one in Tableau.

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Uploading a local CSV file to Snowflake

Jun 6, 2025 Asha Daniels | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I’ve been working with snowflake intermittently now for the past couple of years but had a recent interview question that stumped me - how do you load a local CSV to Snowflake? I managed to answer the question well enough, speaking about creating ...

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Understanding Calculated Columns and Measures in Power BI

Jun 6, 2025 Tyler McKillop | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Calculated columns and measures are key to building efficient and insightful reports when working in Power BI. Both are forms of calculated data, but they behave very differently in the data model and report visuals. 

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Orchestration in Kestra

Jun 6, 2025 Archie Boswell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Kestra is a modern, open-source orchestration and workflow automation platform. It helps you schedule, monitor, and manage complex data workflows—like running scripts, moving files, or calling APIs—using a simple YAML configuration.

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

From API to Snowflake in 3 Steps part 3

Jun 6, 2025 Archie Boswell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this 3-part blog series, we’ll walk through the process of extracting data from the Amplitude API using Python, uploading the output files to an Amazon S3 bucket, and finally loading that data into a Snowflake table.

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

ELT vs ETL vs EtLT

Jun 6, 2025 Saampave Sanmuhanathan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Both ELT process and ETL process start with the extraction of data from the source(s). However, during the ETL process, data is transformed using a different software before it is loaded to a warehouse while data is loaded before it is transformed...

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Creating dynamic KPIs in Tableau

Jun 6, 2025 Freya Marijatta | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Parameters are a very powerful tool in Tableau, which allow us to make our charts dynamic. They have a bunch of uses, and one of those is to make dynamic KPIs.

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

InterWorks Primer on the Databricks Data AI Summit 2025

Jun 6, 2025 Garrett Sauls | interworks.com

Our stretch of conferences for 2025 continues next week with the highly anticipated Databricks Data + AI Summit, held in San Francisco (and online!) from June 9-12. Databricks has been making some serious waves the past few years. Their Data Intel...

Data,DataAISummit,dataarchitecture,datalakehouse,datawarehousing,Databricks,Event

PDF Dateien aus Tableau exportieren

Jun 5, 2025 Birthe Claussen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Im Büroalltag kommt es vor, dass Reports als PDF geteilt werden, anstatt das ganze Dashboard rumzuschicken. Dafür hat Tableau eine Lösung, den PDF Export Button.

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Nodesk School - how I started a non-profit project

Jun 5, 2025 Svetlana Brazukevich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

I have been actively volunteering for a few years. I have helped refugees, collaborated on human rights projects, organised charity events, and done other interesting things. I have always been involved in other people’s projects. Then, a year ago...

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Navigation in Excalidraw

Jun 5, 2025 Stefan Ladwig | www.thedataschool.co.uk

New Dimension of Use Cases Unlocked

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Makeover Monday - Verbesserung der Datenvisualisierung

Jun 5, 2025 Svetlana Brazukevich | www.thedataschool.co.uk

#MakeoverMondayist ein globales Gemeinschaftsprojekt, das sich auf die Verbesserung von Datenvisualisierung und analytischen Fähigkeiten konzentriert. Das Hauptziel des Projekts ist einfach: Man nehme ein bestehendes Diagramm und mache es besser. ...

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Lokalitt ndern in Tableau

Jun 5, 2025 Birthe Claussen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Es kann in Tableau Desktop vorkommen, dass Daten in der falschen Sprache angezeigt werden. Beispielsweise wenn man den eigenen Computer sowie die Sprache von Tableau Desktop auf Deutsch eingestellt hat, jedoch einen englischsprachigen Datensatz be...

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Interactivity Data Adjustment vs. Presentation Adjustment

Jun 5, 2025 Stella-Sophie Bukowski | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Note: this blog post refers to the book Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design by Andy Kirk.

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

How do you build a Word Cloud

Jun 5, 2025 Mariia Sapsai | www.thedataschool.co.uk

What is a Word Cloud?Word Cloud is a visual representation of text data, where the size and color of each word reflect its importance or frequency. It’s great for quickly spotting trends or highlighting key values in your data.

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Excel Tabellen aus Tableau exportieren

Jun 5, 2025 Birthe Claussen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Wir – die DSDE10 – hatten jüngst ein Kundenprojekt, indem wir ein bestehendes Tableau Workbook in ein schickes Dashboard (mit einem Twist) transformieren sollten. “Easy for the eyes” und alles auf einen Blick waren die Anforderungen. Der Twist? Nu...

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Eigenes Design erstellen in Power BI

Jun 5, 2025 Birthe Claussen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Eigene Farbpaletten können nicht nur in Tableau Desktop, sondern auch in Power BI Desktop erstellt werden.

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Bookreport

Jun 5, 2025 Birthe Claussen | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Analytik des tglichen Lebens

Jun 5, 2025 Mariia Sapsai | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Wir stellen uns die Datenanalyse oft als etwas Kompliziertes vor, das für Unternehmen oder Wissenschaftler geschaffen wurde. Aber in Wirklichkeit haben wir sie schon lange – in unseren Smartphones, Uhren oder Fitness-Trackern. Und selbst etwas so ...

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

A Fools Guide to Data Preparation

Jun 5, 2025 Mandy Wan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Hello everyone!

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Practical AI The Types of AI Workloads

Jun 5, 2025 Ben Bausili | interworks.com

Generative AI continues to capture our collective imagination, and if my feeds are any indication, we’re finding new words to describe them all the time — chatbots, copilots, agents and more. But what’s the reality here? What do practical AI workl...

Data,AI,LLM

Ethical Debt in Software Development

Jun 5, 2025 Nayeem Ahmed | interworks.com

What Is Ethical Debt? The concept of ethical debt is starting to become a rigorous conversation among enterprise architects. The simple definition is an accumulation of risks from compromising proper ethical standards during development. Organizat...

Data,AI,dataethics,datastrategy,datatrends

One Dataset to Rule Them All Techniques for Combining Multiple Sources

Jun 4, 2025 Zainul Abedin Natha | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Day 3 at the Data School focused on a fundamental—but often underestimated—part of data analysis: merging data from multiple sources. Whether you’re matching customer data with sales records from a POS system, or combining multiple Excel sheets, u...

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

Build Custom Parameter Selection Buttons in Tableau

Jun 4, 2025 Ollie Linley | onenumber.biz

If you’re looking to turn your static Tableau dashboards into interactive powerhouses, buttons are a fantastic way to do that! In today’s tutorial, we’re diving into one of Tableau’s most underutilised secrets: using buttons to control parameters....

Design,TableauDashboards,TableauParameters

The Self-Service Analytics Revolution that Never Happened

Jun 4, 2025 Mat Hughes | interworks.com

There’s a story we tell ourselves about data in organizations. It goes something like this: Information wants to be free. Give people access to data, democratize it (as consultants like us tend to say) and better decisions will flow throughout the...

Data,analytics,Governance,Self-ServiceAnalytics,ThoughtLeadership

InterWorks Blog Roundup May 2025

Jun 4, 2025 Mark Cordeiro | interworks.com

Welcome back, blog readers! We hope you all had an excellent May. Here in our home state of Oklahoma, the April showers that bring May flowers were a bit delayed this year. This upcoming week, for example, has central Oklahoma projected to be the ...

Data,AI,BlogRoundup,Composer,data

Introducing Snowflake Openflow Native Data Ingestion Reimagined

Jun 3, 2025 Ivan Dosev | interworks.com

Building robust, automated ingestion pipelines often means stitching together cloud storage, monitoring tools, ETL jobs and error handling logic, all living outside your data warehouse. With Snowflake Openflow, ingestion becomes native, event-driv...

Data,Snowflake

Completely Change the way you use Tableaus Layout Containers

Jun 3, 2025 Kevin Flerlage (noreply@blogger.com) | www.flerlagetwins.com

  Frustrated with Tableau’s layout containers?  I’ve been there…in fact, I was there yesterday when trying to fix someone else’s dashboard. It seems tricky, but honestly, it only takes one step to completely change your experience. In ...

Tableau

What Constitutes a Good Data Visualisation

Jun 2, 2025 Stella-Sophie Bukowski | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Note: this blog post refers to the book Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design by Andy Kirk.

KPIs klingt nice Meine Top 5 KPI Designs

Jun 2, 2025 Stephan Christner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Was sind KPI’s ?

How to fill a cup in Tableau up

Jun 2, 2025 Stephan Christner | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Today I want to show you how to fill up a cup in Tableau.

From API to Snowflake in 3 Steps part 1

Jun 2, 2025 Archie Boswell | www.thedataschool.co.uk

In this 3-part blog series, we’ll walk through the process of extracting data from the Amplitude API using Python, uploading the output files to an Amazon S3 bucket, and finally loading that data into a Snowflake table.

Excel-Formeln So findest du sie in Tableau Power BI und Alteryx wieder

Jun 2, 2025 Gabriela Scherbinek | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Viele Excel Anwenderinnen und Anwender bringen bereits ein gutes Fundament für den Start in Tableau, Power BI und Alteryx mit – ihr Excel-Formel-Wissen. Denn viele der grundlegenden Excel-Formeln lassen sich dort direkt oder sehr ähnlich anwenden....

Data Normalisation Methods

Jun 2, 2025 Donna Coles | donnacoles.home.blog

Erica set this fun and incredibly useful challenge this week, based on the TC25 talk by Lorna Brown & Robbin Vernooij, to showcase different methods of normalising data when comparing measures which have drastically different scales. Building ...

WorkoutWednesday,WOW2025,Aliases,DotPlot,NormaliseValues,NormalizeValues,ReferenceLines,StandardDeviation,TableCalculations,week22,WindowMax,WINDOW_AVG,Window_Min,WINDOW_STD,Z-Score

Dashboard Week - Day 5 NASA APIs

May 30, 2025 Amy Peacham | www.thedataschool.co.uk

Our final day of Dashboard Week focused on exploring NASA’s open APIs. We were given the freedom to choose any API from their website and tasked with building a workflow in Alteryx to convert the data into a usable format, followed by designing a ...

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance

Dashboard Week Day 5 NASA API

May 30, 2025 Gabriel Louks-Kirwan | www.thedataschool.co.uk

For the last day of Dashboard Week, we were given the freedom to choose any API from NASA’s collection and use it to gather data for a Tableau Dashboard.

Data,AI,data,DataGovernance