Data Science

Text Classification in Alteryx

How machine learning models for text can power up productivity

New ML Model Macro With Monotonic Constraint Capabilities

Learn about a macro for training machine learning binary classification models with monotonic constraints.

How Do You Know if Your Classification Model Is Any Good?

With auto ML technology, model creation is more accessible than ever. The difficulty lies in determining if that model is any good.

Average Joes: Rockin' Around the HITmas Tree

In this session, we will be creating some songs and predicting whether the songs we make could become Christmas hits!

Average Joes: Predicting Perfection GOAT Guide (NBA)

In this session, we will take player recruits and their average measures across a variety of basketball stats and see which players map to which top 10 all-time NBA GOAT player pro...

How to Predict Late Payments with Machine Learning

Read how you can build an accounts receivable predictive model with Alteryx Machine Learning.

Ugly or Nice? Classifying Christmas Sweaters with Computer V...

Wondering if your ugly Christmas sweater is truly ugly? It's a binary classification problem! The Computer Vision tools can address this fashion dilemma.

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.

Predicting the Effects of Holidays on Service

Check out how we built models to predict service delays related to a holiday using both Alteryx Machine Learning and Alteryx Designer.

Balancing Act: Classification with Imbalanced Data

Feeling a little off balance? Dealing with imbalanced data can be challenging, but we've got a variety of approaches to help.

Metric Matters, Part 1: Evaluating Classification Models

The metrics you choose to evaluate your models matter, but with so many choices, which one should you select?

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 Your Discover Weekly: A Practical Application of K-N...

Let’s review how we can apply KNN in Alteryx in order to allow us to determine whether a track is by either pop artist Carly Rae Jepsen or grindcore band Napalm Death.

Alteryx Your Discover Weekly: A Practical Application of K-N...

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

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.

What's a Pipeline? An Overview of the New Python-based Machi...

Introducing: The Azure Machine Learning Training and Scoring...

Today, we are very excited to announce the public preview of two Alteryx Designer tools that connect to Azure Machine Learning automated ML (Machine Learning), allowing you to easi...

Predictive Process Step 1: Finding Your Target Variable

And For My Next Trick: An Introduction to Support Vector Mac...

Deploying Custom Python Models with Alteryx Promote

Have you struggled to deploy your predictive models in a timely manner before they become obsolete? This article will show you how Alteryx Promote solves this challenge by deployin...

It's a No Brainer: An Introduction to Neural Networks

Neural Networks are an approach to artificial intelligence that was first proposed in 1944. Modeled loosely on the human brain, Neural Networks consist of a multitude of simple pro...

Image Vectorization in Alteryx

Royden Onishi explains how he & Ryan Andrew created their Image Vectorizer tool with the Python SDK and reflects on their experience in the Alteryx BUILD hackathon.

Alteryx Tackles the 2018 FIFA World Cup: Creating the Win/Lo...

Dr. Dan shows how he created the model and pauses for a mid-point sanity check.

Text Analysis in Alteryx with the Python SDK: Gender Classif...

How to create a Gender Classification tool with the Python SDK based on example code in chapter 1 - Language and Computation - of Applied Text Analysis with Python.

An Alteryx Newbie works through the predictive suite: Decisi...

New to Alteryx and ready to help improve the documentation, I'm clambering up another predictive suite tool: the decision tree.

Why use SVM?

What is support vector machine and why should you use it?

Random Forests in Python

An introduction to working with random forests using Python

Naive Bayes in Python

How to implement your own naive bayes classifier in Python and a detailed explanation of how it all works.