Calgary Cooled My Heels
As a recovering DBA I still reach into my bag of tricks when having to do low level data movement. It's a habit hard won, but I'm breaking it. And Ned gave me a little more push in that direction.We...
View ArticleSmall to Big Fuzzy Matching
I was working with a client who has a contact database with 500 million records. Once a month or so they have a smaller dataset to add to their growing database. Their first step is to perform fuzzy...
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Resource Utilization
Frequently asked question: Why is my computer so slow when I run Alteryx?The short answer is that Alteryx is designed to use all the resources it possibly can. In order to make Alteryx run as fast as...
View ArticleAd-Hoc Spatial Data Analysis
I recall this day in school where the professor was drilling into our heads "select … from … where … Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before?" Oh wait, that was somebody else's schooling. As we were...
View ArticleAlteryx is Fun
I've had a bunch of customers tell me how much fun they think Alteryx is to use. One even had her coworkers describe it as "that cartoon program." Obviously that fun has lots to do with Tara's...
View ArticleGot Pain? Try a holistic approach... Macros
Have you ever pondered how we QA Alteryx? With over 70 processing tools that support hundreds of functions, just about any file type, field types, and infinite combinations of configurations it may...
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Smoothing out sparse data
Have you ever had the problem where your data has lots of irregular holes, but that missing data is actually important to you? The Generate Rows tool can help!Let's take a simple example. Suppose you...
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