Our Story of Alteryxing For Good at Sai Krushna Trust

[ydmuley]

On Sunday the 15th of July, a group of passionate Alteryx users in Bangalore visited Sai Krushna Trust as a part of the Alteryx For Good Initiative to do good.

Sai Krushna Trust is a recipient of a free Alteryx Designer License through the Alteryx For Good Program. The SK Trust focuses on providing completely free education to the kids from nearby villages, along with free food and other school-related requirements. They also provide a homestay for the orphan kids, along with a free medical facility for their guests.

15 Alteryx for Good Bangalore members visited SK Trust for our second visit.

We started off with a brief introduction to the charity by - @vinodcartic who heads the charity firm. Along with the Alteryx for Good volunteers, local volunteers from the community and some of the staff members.

@vinodcartic then went on to provide a brief overview on potential Alteryx use cases. This was very helpful and well documented by the team. From there, we decided to divide the team into four groups.

1. Digitization: Assisting charity to transform their data from hard copies – Transforming question banks onto excel
2. Alteryx Training: Training other volunteers and staff members on Alteryx
3. Alteryx Use Case Building: Building Alteryx models related to the use cases mentioned
4. Other potential opportunities: Exploring other areas where potentially we can create impact using Alteryx and other means

Here is just a sampling of the use cases we uncovered:

1. Auto Generation of Certificates – For the academic, sports and cultural events of the school
2. Auto Generation of Report Cards – A PDF report card generated based upon standard input

@rusheen2r and @viveksahoo were quick enough to build the models for these two use cases. @Ashwathnkamath and @princejindal also built a model that helps them track and send notifications related to donations. Simultaneously @Nezrin was busy training the other volunteers and staff members and not to forget she received superb feedback for the same! Kudos @Nezrin!

The digitization group @Sindhu1, @Mouzam_Mulla , @DeepuPaul, Somal Lilha, and @Nandu - focused on digitizing the question papers for a couple of subjects.

We had around 10-12 use cases for Alteryx and Data digitization. We were also inquisitive to know more about other challenges faced by the charity and that is where we got a really good overall exposure and overview. This discussion was led by @SeanAdams and Subrat and myself.

We took a break for awesome lunch arranged by SK Trust! Thank you, @vinodcartic and team, for such a great gesture. After a fulfilling lunch, we were back to solving challenges using Alteryx! The team worked on giving a final touch to the pending workflows and digitization. Not to forget, we also had some great fun with the kids!

As it was @SeanAdams last day with us in India (but of course not his last visit!), we surprised him with a farewell cake.

@SeanAdams, we all thank you, genuinely for all the support and encouragement you have provided all of us and we could not have seen this day without your help and vision. We will continue to take support and advice from you to further grow Alteryx for Good in India!

We have met so many amazing people along this journey which includes a passionate NASA /  ISRO scientist. He visits SK Trust to teach kids Math and Science. He also loved the work that the Alteryx For Good India team was doing across Bangalore.

During the closing note, we all shared our updates on what each team accomplished. We thanked @vinodcartic and his team for making us feel a part of their family and for also giving us all the support. Overall, some of these use cases will help SK Trust save hours and hours of manual efforts and help them invest this time for their greatest initiative which is providing a better education and creating a better health program for the kids in the village.

With all this in mind, let's not forget to acknowledge the Alteryx Team (@ToriA @QuyenT @Tuvy @MaddieJ) for their overwhelming support and guidance. We know there is a great deal of potential for organizations, like the SK Trust and other charities around the world who can leverage Alteryx to do good. 

This is just a small step towards making this world a better place.

Keep Alteryxing! Keep Doing Good with Data!

Yugandhar Muley
Associate - Advanced Specialist

Yug is a BI enthusiast and developer. He strongly believes in leveraging BI for enabling business decisions and eliminating mundane tasks. Yug also shares passion for helping charity organizations in solving their data-related challenges.

[QuyenT]

@ydmuley - thank you for sharing with us your story. This is wonderful and I look forward to reading more blog posts with your team's efforts in India!

[ydmuley]

Thank you @QuyenT for all the support! Its always a great pleasure to be part of such a noble cause.

[Nezrin]

Thank you @ydmuley for putting this together and thank you all for making this event very impacting ! Coming back home with creating workflows for the charity and having passed our knowledge for the benefit of the organization and the community- there could be nothing more which was more personally so rewarding:) I am sure we all enjoyed spending time with the kids as much as they enjoyed ours.

Lets carry the same enthusiasm for our future visits as well. Thanks all :)

[vinodcartic]

Hi Alteryx for Good Team, 

It was fantastic having all of you here. The resolution of the use cases has been very helpful. 

Loved the energy and involvement of all the team members.

I would like to individually thank each one of you who came on Sunday:  Nandu, Deepu, Sindhu, Somal, Mouzam, @Nezrin,  Rusheen, Ashwath, Vivek, Prince, @ydmuley and @Subrat. 

A big word of thanks to @SeanAdams who made it here despite his hectic schedule and upcoming transfer to New York. 

Wonderful to know about the ideas you suggested. 

Each of you made a significant contribution while striving to help out. Your efforts will certainly enable us to more effective in the work being done here. We've also started exploring what else we can do with Alteryx to help solve many of our data issues. Thanks so much to the Alteryx Team (@ToriA @QuyenT @Tuvy @MaddieJ) for the license. 

There is greater joy in striving than in the mere attainment of these ideas and goals. On behalf of everyone here, I would like to invite you to involve more often. 

Let’s dream bigger, strive harder and dig deeper in this quest to make an impact on rural India. 

Together, we are making a difference. 

Thanks so much again.

Look forward to staying in touch. 

[ydmuley]

Thank You @vinodcartic for giving us the opportunity! What you are doing for the social cause is truly inspirational and we all are proud to be part of this journey with you.

We understand there is a long way to go and this is just the beginning, looking forward to many more such events. Thanks Yug

[Sindhu1]

This was one of my first and best Alteryx For Good visit, and it makes me feel amazing to be with the genius people around who are trying to lend their hands in making the life easy through Alteryx. 

Thank you Yug and team, for giving me an opportunity and encourage me to learn Alteryx.

"Help One, Each One"

[ydmuley]

Thanks, @Sindhu1 for coming to the event! It's incredible to see how much impact can we as a group create with our passion for Alteryx and passion to give back to the community. Looking forward to more continued engagements.

[SubratDas5]

It is pretty magical to see the progress that we have made as a group from the first visit that I had to Sai Krushna Mandir to introduce Alteryx to @vinodcartic .

To the digitization team, here's a way to make great progress with the Digitization effort - https://vimeo.com/218428330 and https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6432779900322742272/

Thanks, @ydmuley and the rest of the team for believing that we can make a difference and be there for the event. 

[Sindhu1]

Hi Subrat, 

The link is very informative and we shall try to use it in our next Alteryx visit! 

Thank you!