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Every year at the Alteryx Inspire conference (next year’s will be March 5 – 7, 2013), a dozen or so problem solvers turned Data Artisans qualify to compete in the Alteryx Grand Prix. The Alteryx Grand Prix is a ‘Grand Prix’ race experience where competitors race multiple laps to solve real-world analytic problems using the Alteryx Platform. Only one comes out the qualifying Grand Prize winner.
What is it about Alteryx that drives users to want to compete and test their skills alongside one another? Is it that, even if we are new to the platform, the kind of celebration of creativity we experience when building even a simple module is addictive? That the surprise from our colleagues and managers at the speed with which we not only accomplish our creation, but run our solution and deliver intelligent results, is just as addictive?
Some might think that the race track setting and driver competition of the Alteryx Grand Prix is only a metaphor for an over-hyped product feature—the feature of speed. But let me ask you, when was the last time a metaphor helped you attempt the unthinkable, and then deliver, a robust solution to your company’s most vexing Big Data analytics problem, in a matter of minutes?
Don’t take my word for it. Hear from last year’s Alteryx Grand Prix grand prize winner, Justin Tischler of Intalytics. On a warm day in October Justin reflected on how he has been moving all of his data blending AND big data analytics from SAS over to Alteryx. We caught up with him at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, taking his victory lap in an Indy-style race car. A metaphor that is known to easily heat up the track at speeds of up to 160 miles per hour.
Wayne Moore
Customer Marketing Manager.
