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Sit back, relax, and enjoy the latest edition of Alteryx Community Highlights -- a monthly blog series aimed at helping you make the most of your time in the community!
ICYMI
*In Case You Missed It -- Community news & announcements.
Developer Community (now in Beta!)
On October 24th, we went live with the early-release of the Alteryx Developer Community -- your gateway to build, extend and customize Alteryx products and solutions. This new area offers a complete set of resources, including easy access to learning materials: SDK/API Online Help, Alteryx Github, Developer Blogs, and of course, a dedicated forum — DevSpace. You can find everything we have in store by visiting: developers.alteryx.com
Product Certification
You can now find everything you need to know about the Alteryx Product Certification Program on Community! As a certified Alteryx user, you will receive recognition for your accomplishments, a certificate and a badge on the Community. Prove to others how much you know. Register for one of our product certification exams today and begin your journey to becoming an Alteryx Certified Professional.
Inspire 2018 | Buzz
We're already counting down to Anaheim next year (199 days!), which is why we are so excited to announce the availability of the Inspire 2018 | Buzz forum -- the go-to community resource for Alteryx Inspire 2018 conference attendees. Not sure where to begin? Check out the Welcome post for some tips on how to get started. And, don't forget to share a few Inspire highlights of your own: Inspire Highlights | Get Psyched for 2018!
Inspire 2018 Registration is now open -- Sign up by year-end for BIG DISCOUNTS!
Never. Stop. Learning.
*Alteryx Academy -- All the training resources you need.
New Interactive Lessons
You may have noticed a few more additions in your Alteryx for Excel Users course in the Interactive Lessons! Lessons on sampling and de-duping data were added to round out the course on transferring your Excel knowledge to the Alteryx Designer.
Challenge (#93: Pumpkin Production) might inspire feelings of gratitude, especially once you determine who is responsible for sustaining our love of all things pumpkin spice! Challenge yourself to determine the top pumpkin producer and, as other Challengers have taken upon themselves to do, solve the Challenge with as few Join tools as possible!
The most recent challenge will give you the chance to show off your skills with the Predictive Tools to answer one of the most pressing issues of our time: Challenge (#94: Have we reached Peak Pumpkin?)
Is the time of the demand for EVERYTHING PUMPKIN losing steam? Has Maple Pecan become a force to be reckoned with? Let's be honest, probably not... PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE!!!!!
Upcoming Live Training
For those interested in Live Training, our partner Slalom has prepared a series of upcoming training sessions that are sure to interest users looking for a deep-dive into use-case based topics. Register for these web-hosted sessions on the Live Training site:
November 17th | Digital Marketing Insights with Google Analytics
Digital Marketing can be a cluttered landscape of data sources, metrics, and outcomes. Join us for a session around selecting the most impactful insights that best demonstrate your digital marketing performance. In addition, we will walk through a use case showing how Alteryx brings the data together and allows for easy reporting on your organization's digital marketing efforts.
December 1st | Harnessing Predictive Analytics for Employee Attrition
In addition to costing companies significant sums of money, employee attrition can be a symptom of issues in an organization which needs to be addressed. Utilizing the robust set of tools Alteryx has to offer, users can explore, prep, and apply algorithms to identify key factors which drive employee turnover. In this session, we’ll dive a little deeper into predictive analytics and understand the impact it can have on a company’s most precious resource: its people.
Featured Solution
*An Accepted Solution that caught our eye…
Wow!!! Many thanks to you all for the fast reply! I was able to complete the analysis while still on the phone with the requester! Needless to say, they were very impressed! Thank you!
-ddiesel
Check out the Solution here: Solved: Multi-Row Formula to "copy up" values?
Nuts & Bolts
*Alteryx in Practice. Noteworthy Knowledge Base articles, Blog posts + other pearls of wisdom.
Learn all about a new beta feature to visually compare Alteryx workflows between versions for easier organizational compliance in highly regulated industries. Also, thanks to @ShaanM, there's a a GUI friendly Alteryx Analytics App.
With network security increasingly on our minds, we've released resources on how to troubleshoot scheduler on VPN connections.
With the help of our members, we published 7 new Tool Mastery articles in just a little over a month! Additions to the series this month include:
- Tool Mastery | TS Plot
- Tool Mastery | Multi-Row Formula
- Tool Mastery | Distance
- Tool Mastery | Dynamic Select
- Tool Mastery | ConsumerView Matching
- Tool Mastery | Arrange
- Tool Mastery | Transpose
Check out the Tool Mastery Index for a list of all available series articles.
Thank you @TonyM, @Kenda, @SydneyF, @JessicaS, and @patrick_digan for sharing your expertise with the Community!
Read our Blogs
Catch the Thrill of Inspire in Anaheim – June 4th - 7th, 2018
@SethG, Alteryx CMO, made a big annoucement earlier today -- Inspire 2018 conference registration and call for speakers is now open, so you can not only register to join us at one of the biggest customer love fests, but also submit your story to share in Anaheim.
We won a super sweet award thanks to our awesome users!
@LDuane, Alteryx Chief Customer Officer & co-founder, shares her thoughts and gratitude on taking home a big win -- Customer voice puts Alteryx at the top to receive the Gold Award in the Gartner Peer Insights Customer Choice Awards for Business Intelligence and Analytics.
If you use Amazon Redshift - update your driver!!
On October 23, Amazon Redshift is shifting from ACM certificates to certificates managed by the AWS Certificate manager. Time to update your drivers!
The Funnies
*Where we share the random, bizarre, and usually hilarious things that pop-up in our Community.
Shower curtains, mouse pads, puzzles, and an Alteryx Starship?
@JoshKushner, @SeanAdams, and @Arianna_Fuller came up with some pretty creative ideas in their responses to a recent Thursday Thought -- The Periodic Table of Alteryx Tools | Gift if the season?
If you're a fan of The Periodic Table of Alteryx Tools you aren't going to want to miss out on the opportunity to contribute: If you could have The Periodic Table of Alteryx Tools printed on anything, what would it be? And, what are you willing to do to earn it? Share your thoughts here.
Community Tip of the Month
*Tips to help you make the most of your community experience.
@MarqueeCrew has more than a few tricks up his sleeve. Check out his latest YouTube video, for a quick overview on how to incorporate code snippet's into posts and other community WYSIWYG tips.
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