Data Science

Machine learning & data science for beginners and experts alike.

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Picture Perfect: Inside Image Processing

Images and scanned documents can be a bit hard to decipher. Let’s see how the Image Processing tool works so you can make the most of your image-based data.

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Notable Nodes: Identifying Influencers with Network Analysis

Identifying social media influencers is both an art and a science. Let’s try out the Network Analysis Tool to find them on Twitter.

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Free Data Science Tools for Designer: A Gallery Tour

There are even more data science tools available for Alteryx, beyond what you see in your Designer palettes, for statistics, data prep, modeling and more. Here’s a list of freely a...

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How Spooky is Your City? Mapping and Predicting Scary Stuff

Whether you’re the kind of person who seeks out the spooky or not, guess what: You probably live near some creepy things. Celebrate Halloween with some macabre mapping and petrifyi...

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De-Confusing the Matrix

“Confusion Matrix” is not just a term for how we all felt after watching the Wachowski’s masterpiece for the first time; it's also a way of looking at the effectiveness of a model’...

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Alteryx Predictive Tools Flowchart

Have you ever felt lost when facing a long list of models, not knowing which one you should choose for your problem? These Predictive Flowcharts give some ideas and guidance.

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Use Python, Alteryx, and OCR/AI to Extract Data From Images

It's tedious to capture and input data by hand. Instead, capture data in image form and extract the data from those images.

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Try Sentiment Analysis with Designer, You Must

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...

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One-Hot Encoding - What's It All About?

After using the predictive tools in Alteryx over the years I became frustrated with how to correctly use non-binary categorical variables in predictive modelling, and wondered how...

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A Factor Analysis Macro for Designer

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 ma...

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Legolytics Part 5: The Product

It’s all good developing a solution, but there’s no joy until it’s open sourced. So here is the finished application in all its glory.

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Legolytics Part 4: Optimizing Cost

The whole reason I embarked on this project was to try and beat the Lego price for this product. Here's how we can use the Optimization tool in this very specific, bespoke use case...