Tag: Alteryx

Future features coming to Alteryx 10.6 and beyond

One of my favourite parts of attending the ever-growing Alteryx Inspire 2016 conference and its like is hearing about the fun new features that tools such as the wonderful Alteryx are going to make available soon. It's always exciting to think about how such developments might improve our job efficiency, satisfaction or enable whole new activities that so far have … Continue reading Future features coming to Alteryx 10.6 and beyond →

Accessing Adobe Analytics data with Alteryx

Adobe Analytics (also known as Site Catalyst, Omniture, and various other names both past and present) is a service that tracks and reports on how people use websites and apps. It's one of the leading solutions for organisations who are interested in studying how people are actually using their digital offerings. Studying real-world usage is often far more insightful, … Continue reading Accessing Adobe Analytics data with Alteryx →

Setting up the automatic “upload to Tableau Online / Server” feature in Alteryx 10.1

Alteryx released their new version 10.1 this week - license holders/demo seekers can pop along to the download page to install it. Amongst the new features it promised was: Automatically update Tableau Server and Tableau Online with a new Tableau macro The concept is simple: process/model/advanced-analyse your data in Alteryx and then it will push up the … Continue reading Setting up the automatic “upload to Tableau Online / Server” feature in Alteryx 10.1 →

Awesome Alteryx cache tool from the Alteryx community

Alteryx is a superb tool for data manipulation and it's generally very fast at what it does. However this only encourages us to put large volumes of data through its manipulation capabilities, which can cause annoying pauses during workflow development. Perhaps it's because your source database is non-too-fast or simply whatever function you're asking Alteryx to do over a billion … Continue reading Awesome Alteryx cache tool from the Alteryx community →

A first look at Alteryx 10’s Network Analysis tool

Alteryx version 10 was recently released, with all sorts of juicy new features in realms such as usability, data manipulation and statistical modelling. Perhaps one of the most interesting ones for me though is the new Network Analysis tool. This provides an easy way to make network graph visualisations natively, something that many general purpose … Continue reading A first look at Alteryx 10’s Network Analysis tool →

Basic text tokenisation with Alteryx

Free text analytics seems a fashionable pastime at present. The most commonly seen form in the wild might be the very basic text visualisation known as the "word cloud". Here, for instance is the New York Times' "most searched for terms" represented in such a cloud. When confronted with a body of human-written text, one of the first steps for many text-related analytical techniques … Continue reading Basic text tokenisation with Alteryx →

Extracting SPSS variable labels and factors with Alteryx

SPSS is a nice statistics/analytics package that, since 1968 (!), seems to have been well-regarded program for classic statistics. It now has many new bits and pieces that target the predictive modelling market too. In my experience it was previously mostly used in academia, especially the social sciences, but these days it seems it has made inroads into business and government data too.But it's … Continue reading Extracting SPSS variable labels and factors with Alteryx →

Why version 9 will {FIX} Tableau for me (and workarounds in the mean time)

Excitement builds within the dataviz world as the next version of Tableau gets close to launch, supposedly within the next 60 days. It has many new features, which data geeks and other fans can see an preview being dripped out piece by piece in the Tableau blog, and summaries elsewhere, but one has really caught my attention, … Continue reading Why version 9 will {FIX} Tableau for me (and workarounds in the mean time) →