November 2024 DFW Alteryx User Group In-Person Meeting!

[Deanna]

Hi, fellow DFW Alteryx User Group members!  Just a reminder to join us for our upcoming in-person meeting this Friday, November 15th, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.  We are privileged to host our meeting onsite at the University of Texas at Dallas campus in Richardson, and will feature some excellent guest speakers!

Our first guest speaker is Veda Swaroop Dasagrandhi, Master's student at UT Dallas.  His presentation is called, "Empowering Students with Alteryx:  Transforming Projects and Preparing for Data-Driven Careers".  Veda has provided this excellent overview of the session:

"In my presentation, I’ll explore how Alteryx empowers students with tools for data preparation, analysis, and automation, transforming their academic projects into practical, real-world experiences. By mastering complex data tasks and streamlining workflows, students build critical skills that enhance their career readiness. I’ll also discuss how Alteryx supports faculty in enriching curricula, equipping students with in-demand data skills."

We are excited to hear Veda's engaging presentation and learn more about how Alteryx and the SparkED program have benefitted and influenced numerous students and faculty at UT Dallas!  

Next, we welcome one of the newest Alteryx ACEs, Michael Keiffer, back to the DFW stage, where he will continue his presentation from the October meeting, with some cool new topics!  Michael will feature how to build Batch Macros, and will create workflows step-by-step to show each tool configuration.  He will also feature an Analytic App that inputs hundreds of files, and combines them into one file.  Join us to see the ACE techniques in action!

For those who are not able to attend in person, the meeting will also be hybrid and hosted on Zoom.  Please click "Register" at the top right of the following events calendar page, and the link will be provided upon registration.  DFW Alteryx User Group November 2024 IN-PERSON Mee... - Alteryx Community

For all who can attend in person, this will be a great opportunity to network with like-minded Alteryx fans, so bring your business cards!  Refreshments will be provided, and a parking pass is attached to this post.  Please place the pass visibly on your vehicle dashboard, and parking is allowed in any Purple parking area.  A parking map is available at this link:  Parking Map .  Please note:  Purple parking is also available in the main parking garages noted on the map, such as PS1.

The meeting will be held classroom-style (and feel free to bring your laptops) in Room 1.508 in the JSOM (Naveen Jindal School of Management) building.  A satellite map is attached, showing the parking garage PS1 at the top right, and the JSOM building at the bottom left.  The walkway from the parking garage to the JSOM building is highlighted, and free parking is available in the PS1 parking garage in the Purple areas with the attached parking pass.  (Please see the Parking Map link above.)

Thank you to UT Dallas for generously hosting our user group meeting, and we look forward to seeing you there!

@Deanna and the DFW Alteryx User Group Leadership Team

[Deanna]

Hi, everyone!  Thank you to all who were able to join us for our in-person/hybrid meeting at UT Dallas in November!  It was an excellent meeting, and we had two great presenters:  Veda Swaroop Dasagrandhi, Master's student at UT Dallas, and Alteryx ACE Michael Keiffer, Instructor and CPA.

We started the meeting with an engaging presentation by Veda Swaroop, called "Empowering Students with Alteryx:  Transforming Projects and Preparing for Data-Driven Careers".  He showcased how the Alteryx SparkED program has benefitted many students at UTD, allowing them to receive Alteryx licenses and learn the platform at a very fast pace.  Instructors at the university are able to utilize prepared curricula and add them to their data analytics courses, enabling students to ramp up quickly and prepare for their careers.  Many students have even become Core Certified through their participation in the program!

Veda featured a workflow utilizing A/B testing for a coffee shop, and gave detailed explanations of the results and processes.  He also provided some excellent ideas, such as hosting Alteryx workshops on campus for students, which can be highly beneficial.  In addition, Veda designed a useful survey for students, allowing him to gather opinions about the topics students are interested in learning within the Alteryx platform.  Excellent work, Veda, and we hope to have you return as a guest speaker in the future!

Next, Michael continued his presentation from our October virtual meeting, and built batch macros on the fly for our audience.  He also showcased an Analytic App that imports hundreds of files, describing an interesting use case where the end user required some interactivity with the process (making it a much more advanced solution).  Please see the following recording for this not-to-be-missed session and watch the batch macro and Analytic App take shape!  Thank you, Michael, for another cool and interesting presentation!

A link to the recording is available here:

https://community-alteryx.zoom.us/rec/share/rogJio6SINetcJP7uYWqvLJxC4oVfrHY_aR4xKrZ0im8kRN-8d6ZhjnZ...
Passcode: !*=8aWh1

Thank you again to our guest presenters; we appreciate your insight, and it was great to learn new techniques and applications in Alteryx!

@Deanna and the DFW Alteryx User Group Leadership Team