Data Science

Your time series analysis and forecasts are already awesome, no doubt. But could they be even better with a covariate series?

What's the magical combination of skills for data science? Let's use data science to find out.

If you are like me and you have never made an analytical model or you do not have enough time to dedicate to learning statistics, data science, programming, databases, SQL ... but you know the business and have questions to answer that you have not been able to, or you depend on other areas / professionals to help - this interests you!

What’s the role of creativity in data science? Ben Moss, Alteryx ACE, explains in this video how creativity informs his work and helps him learn and teach new concepts, like optimization and K-nearest neighbors. 

Data science projects benefit from diverse perspectives and skills. What do we know about the next generation of data professionals?

You could make a data visualization that you think is the most beautiful thing ever -- but it could be mostly useless for many viewers. Learn about some key ways to make your data visualization better for everyone.

Want to become a sentiment analysis Jedi? With the release of the Alteryx Intelligence Suite and its text mining tools, you can explore tricky text data and gain new insights into the feelings within it.

Want to bring the power of Python to your data visualization -- all within Designer? Learn how to use the Python Tool to create charts, graphs and plots.

Grab this guide to advance your adventures in data analytics, using resources from the Data Science Blog and the Alter Everything podcast.

Data science tools are powerful for investigating the current pandemic and other outbreaks, when accurate and actionable data are crucial. Epidemiologist and R Epidemics Consortium leader Amrish Baidjoe shared his insights into using data science to fight disease, from modeling to automation to new technologies.

Koalas seem super chill, but a little chaos and disorder -- aka entropy, in the data science world -- might be key to saving them, plus some innovative analytics and mapping. Cuteness plus data!

Last week I posted a full introduction to factor analysis, plus a workflow demonstrating one use of this analytic approach in Designer. But now the process is even easier with a macro -- attached at the bottom of this post -- that you can easily grab and put into your own workflow!

What if you believe something is happening in your data that isn’t precisely reflected by a single variable you measured -- maybe because it wasn’t or couldn’t be observed? Learn about one way to identify explanations for that mystery.

So many decisions go into the data science process. New automated tools let machines and humans collaborate on making the right choices.

Simple enough for statistical beginners, powerful enough to help solve big problems: That’s what some data analytics students learned about linear regression in a recent data challenge. 

Read on for practical (and fun) examples of what KNN analysis is and how simple it is to perform in Alteryx.

We’d planned to celebrate Take Your Kids to Work Day with this fun new video, but right now, you may be working alongside your kids every day. Maybe it’s time to share some data expertise with them -- and do some laundry, too!