Data Science

Machine learning & data science for beginners and experts alike.

Alteryx Designer

11 min to read

Alteryx and Generative AI: How To Use the Alteryx OpenAI Con...

Unlock the potential of OpenAI's generative AI models within your Alteryx workflows with the OpenAI Connector.

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

Survival Analysis, Part 4: Using Python (in Alteryx)

Let's walk through how to conduct survival analysis in Python

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

Survival Analysis, Part 3: Using Alteryx

Let's walk through a use case in Alteryx that looks at applying survival analysis to understand customer churn.

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

Survival Analysis, Part 2: Key Models

In this blog, we will introduce two of the most popular models used in survival analysis, namely the Kaplan-Meier (KM) model and the Cox Proportional Hazards (CPH) model.

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

Survival Analysis, Part 1: Introduction

Whether you are a marketing analyst, medical researcher, engineer, or social scientist, this series will help you understand how to analyze time-to-event data and predict survivabi...

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

Using Alteryx to Extract SEC Form 10Q Data

Alteryx Intelligence Suite is at it again.

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

Using Computer Vision to Extract Data From Nutrition Labels

Another great Alteryx Intelligence Suite use case.

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

Using Code-Free ML to Predict the 2021 World Chess Champions...

In light of the upcoming 2021 World Chess Championship match, I decided to marry my so-called analytics skills and my long-term, love-hate relationship with chess.

Alteryx Designer

5 min to read

A Look Inside the Recommended Tools in Designer

Using Alteryx Designer is now even more intuitive. Find out how we built the new Recommended tools category, using Designer and predictive modeling.

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

Investigate Your Images with Image Profile

The new Image Profile Tool brings insights about images into your workflows. Let's learn about it — and dive into color and custom visualizations with Python along the way.

Alteryx Designer

9 min to read

Image Recognition: Classification Models Made Simple

Get ready to build image classification models with the new Image Recognition Tool. Our favorite animated TV family helps us see how it's done.

Alteryx Designer

1 min to read

Computer Vision Within Reach: A Deeper Dive Into OCR and Mor...

Discussions of computer vision can be incredibly technical. Here's a gentle introduction to what's happening under the hood of the Alteryx tools.

Alteryx Designer

9 min to read

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.

Alteryx Designer

7 min to read

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.

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

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...

Alteryx Designer

9 min to read

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...

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

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’...

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

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.

Alteryx Designer

11 min to read

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.

Alteryx Designer

8 min to read

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...

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

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...

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

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...

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

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.

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

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...

Alteryx Designer

3 min to read

Legolytics Part 3: All Possible Bricks

We now have our final image that we want to create with Lego bricks, but there is a level of optimization that can be done to reduce the cost of the image.

Alteryx Designer

2 min to read

Happiness is a Network of Friends

Quantifying the quantity and quality of treasured social ties might feel a little strange. But the strength of social relationships is important in the “Analytics of Happiness,” as...

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Legolytics Part 2: Assigning the Lego Colour Palette

Now that we have our 48x48 pixel image of Phil’s face, and the associated colours, we have a problem. Phil’s face is, colour-wise, friggin’ complex.

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

Planting a Tree to Stop Graffiti

Have you ever wondered if having more trees in your neighborhood would stop the spread of graffiti? Explore how to create a relationship between them with Alteryx, and see if our h...

Alteryx Designer

4 min to read

Legolytics Part 1: Extracting Colours From an Image With Alt...

For math and some Alteryx enjoyment, I thought what the heck, let’s try this. This series of five blog posts will detail the stepping stones that allowed me to build a Lego portrai...

Alteryx Designer

6 min to read

What is a Confusion Matrix?

In this post, I am going to help you understand what a confusion matrix is, and also show you where and how you can implement this powerful tool in Alteryx.