DFW Alteryx User Group April In-Person Meeting!

[Deanna]

Hi, fellow DFW Maveryx!  Please save the date for our upcoming April user group meeting, which will be Friday, April 25th, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.!  We are excited to announce that we will be able to have an in-person meeting, generously hosted by East Texas A&M University in Dallas!

East Texas A&M University is a leading university in many fields of study, and the Dallas location specializes in various areas of Agriculture, Business, Education, Engineering and Technology, Visual Communications, Public Health, and much more.  East Texas A&M at Dallas | East Texas A&M University, ETAMU .  The university also has an outstanding Competency-Based Education program as well as beneficial options for non-traditional students; for more information, please visit CBE: Competency-Based Education | East Texas A&M University, ETAMU .

They have a beautiful campus located on multiple floors at 8750 Northpark Central, located across Highway 75 from Northpark Mall in Dallas.  Our meeting will be hosted on the 20th floor, with scenic views of the Dallas metroplex, and cutting-edge technology for the presentations!  We are grateful to East Texas A&M University for hosting our meeting, with special thanks to Dr. Sri Beldona, Chief Academic Officer, and Molly DePue, Dallas Operations Project Manager for their support of our user group.

We are also glad to welcome back to the DFW Alteryx User Group stage Shukla Shanthakumara, Business System Analyst at NVIDIA, and graduate of the UT Dallas Master's program.  You may remember Shukla's presentation for our user group last year on campus at UTD, where she described her amazing journey in data analytics, along with how her career skyrocketed by learning Alteryx!  It is a privilege to feature such a talented user group member again, and she will showcase how her data analytics pathway is continuing to grow at NVIDIA; we look forward to the presentation!

The meeting will be held on the 20th floor; to access the location, please follow these directions:

• The following Google Maps link is best for directions to the Dallas location:  8750 N Central Expy - Google Maps
• The address is:  8750 N Central Expy, Dallas, TX 75231
• Enter the building through the main entrance and proceed to the 2^nd bank of elevators directly to the right of the security desk for access to the 19^th floor.
• After arriving on the ETAMU floor (19th floor), please proceed to the ETAMU LionHead elevator for access to the 20^th floor, then follow the signs to the user group meeting!

Guests to East Texas A&M - Dallas may park in any unmarked parking spaces throughout the exterior parking lots, and no parking permits are required.

Refreshments will be served, and please RSVP using the "Register" button at the top right of our events page at DFW Alteryx User Group April 2025 In-Person Meetin... - Alteryx Community

We look forward to seeing you all at the meeting, and we welcome all levels of users - from those who are interested in data analytics and are new to Alteryx, to experts in the platform.  This is your chance to network with like-minded data analytics fans, learn cool new techniques in the Alteryx platform, and enjoy beautiful views in a high-tech setting!

Please feel free to forward this invitation to any who may be interested in learning more about ETAMU programs, as well as the many benefits and capabilities of Alteryx!  We hope to see you there!

@Deanna and the DFW Alteryx User Group Leadership Team

[Deanna]

Hi, DFW Alteryx User Group members!  We hope you can join us for our April meeting tomorrow, which will be in-person at East Texas A&M University at their Dallas location!  We have some excellent guest speakers, and I wanted to provide an update on the various topics and not-to-be missed presentations:

Our first guest speakers will be our DFW Alteryx User Group co-leader David Rardon, Director of Analytics, and Jackie Romero, Manager of Data Analytics, both of The Commit Partnership.  Economic Opportunity for Students - Commit Partnership  David will feature a talk regarding "How Commit is Using Alteryx in Its Pursuit of Economic Opportunity for Students".  With David's extensive GIS and spatial background, he will also showcase the work they perform on this topic using the Spatial toolset in Alteryx!

Jackie will present a new and highly beneficial resource The Commit Partnership has developed called "Best in Texas", which is a model and data set that allows them to control for some known demographic disparities in order to more fairly compare academic performance of School Districts and Campuses across the state.  We are eager to see the innovative ways they are using the Alteryx platform to achieve so many insights that lead to improvements for Texas students and communities!

We are also glad to welcome back to the DFW Alteryx User Group stage Shukla Shanthakumara, Business System Analyst at NVIDIA, and graduate of the UT Dallas Master's program.  You may remember Shukla's presentation for our user group last year on campus at UTD, where she described her amazing journey in data analytics, along with how her career skyrocketed by learning Alteryx!  Shukla will present a cool topic called, "On-the-Fly Queries from HANA: To Fix Master Data for Models to Run and Give Desired Output".  She has provided the following description:  

"This topic explores the dynamic approach to managing changing master data on a weekly basis. It details the process of identifying alternate materials from another master data source in HANA, comparing them on-the-fly, and uploading the updated data back to Integrated Business Planning (IBP). The focus is on ensuring data accuracy and consistency while adapting to frequent changes in the master data."

It is a privilege to feature such a talented user group member again, and Shukla will showcase how her data analytics pathway is continuing to grow at NVIDIA; we look forward to the presentation and learning more about the dynamic process she developed!

As a reminder, here are the directions to East Texas A&M University Dallas, along with parking instructions:

The meeting will be held on the 20th floor; to access the location, please follow these directions:

• The following Google Maps link is best for directions to the Dallas location:  8750 N Central Expy - Google Maps
• The address is:  8750 N Central Expy, Dallas, TX 75231
• Enter the building through the main entrance and proceed to the 2^nd bank of elevators directly to the right of the security desk for access to the 19^th floor.
• After arriving on the ETAMU floor (19th floor), please proceed to the ETAMU LionHead elevator for access to the 20^th floor, then follow the signs to the user group meeting!

Guests to East Texas A&M - Dallas may park in any unmarked parking spaces throughout the exterior parking lots, and no parking permits are required.

Refreshments will be served, and please RSVP using the "Register" button at the top right of our events page at DFW Alteryx User Group April 2025 In-Person Meetin... - Alteryx Community

For those who may not be able to attend the meeting in person, the meeting will also be delivered virtually; a Zoom meeting link will be provided to you upon registering using the events page link above.

We hope you can join us tomorrow, April 25th, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in person at East Texas A&M University Dallas, and enjoy learning exciting new techniques in Alteryx, as well as network with fellow user group members and experience a beautiful high-tech campus!  We look forward to seeing you there!

@Deanna and the DFW Alteryx User Group Leadership Team

[Deanna]

Hi, DFW Maveryx!  Thank you to those who joined us for our in-person meeting in April at the beautiful East Texas A&M University Dallas campus in April!  We are especially grateful to Dr. Sri Beldona, Chief Academic Officer at ETAMU, for hosting our user group meeting and enabling such excellent collaboration between the university, its students, and Alteryx!

Our meeting began with an informative presentation by DFW Alteryx User Group co-leader David Rardon, Director of Analytics, and Jackie Romero, Manager of Data Analytics at The Commit Partnership.  David provided a comprehensive overview of The Commit Partnership, and the many ways they support education within the DFW area and statewide.  Jackie presented their newest analytical initiative, "Best in Texas", which utilizes fresh new techniques for judging performance metrics of various schools throughout the state.  A presentation by The Commit Partnership usually includes advanced Tableau visualizations generated by Alteryx data output, and this session was no exception!  Thank you to Jackie and David for inspiring us with their new methods of analyzing student metrics, and for all you do to improve outcomes for students throughout the state!

Next, we were privileged to feature Shukla Shanthakumara, Business System Analyst at NVIDIA, and longtime user group member!  Shukla provided an engaging presentation of "On-the-Fly Queries from HANA: To Fix Master Data for Models to Run and Give Desired Output".  Showcasing how to manage changing master data on a weekly basis, Shukla featured ways to identify alternate materials from a separate data source, compare them on the fly, then upload the updated data back to the main Integrated Business Planning (IBP).  Her workflows have saved her approximately 3 hours a week, and she has been able to schedule jobs at different times, automating the process with no need to check files manually.

Shukla, we appreciate you being our guest presenter and sharing your Alteryx journey with us, from first utilizing the platform at the University of Texas at Dallas, to incorporating it throughout many of your processes at NVIDIA.  We look forward to seeing what you create next!

Thank you again to all who were able to join in person as well as virtually for our hybrid meeting, and we hope to see you at the next one!

@Deanna