Data Science

Minimal Dependencies of Minimal Dependencies: A Story Result...

Getting adequate support and testing in place for minimum dependency resolution is crucial in ensuring that users won’t run into unexpected problems.

Topic Modeling with Alteryx: Part 3 of 4

Here we review the Word-Relevance Summary and visualization.

Jupyter Flow FAQ

Got a question? The Jupyter Flow tool FAQ may be able to help!

Introducing the Jupyter Flow Tool

Schedule Jupyter notebooks on Server. Use and share them in Alteryx workflows. Integrate Jupyter notebooks and their environments into your analytics process. The Jupyter Flow tool...

How to Troubleshoot Memory Problems in Python

Memory problems are tough to diagnose and fix — maybe more so in Python. Read about how we identified and fixed a memory problem in EvalML, and pick up some best practices you can...

Introducing Alteryx Open Source

We are excited to officially announce Alteryx Open Source and launch @AlteryxOSS, a Twitter account for Alteryx users and the larger data science community.

Visualizing Automated Feature Engineering

To make it easier to understand how a feature was generated automatically, Featuretools now has the ability to graph the lineage of a feature.

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...

Realtime ML Forecasting and Anomaly Detection in Alteryx Des...

The TIM Forecasting Tool is an implementation of the TIM RTInstantML technology in Alteryx Designer.

Observations on the Citizen Data Scientist

Embedding a Model in a Python SDK Tool

After training a Phrases model with Community texts, I wanted to be able to incorporate the model into Alteryx workflows that I was using to process text, and hopefully even be abl...

Introducing: A Cheat Sheet for R Functions in Alteryx

Who doesn’t love a good cheat sheet? Nobody, that’s who. Cheat sheets are awesome. They are a great reference for functions you need handy, but don’t have memorized by heart (yet)...

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.

Levelling Up: A Beginner’s Guide to the Python SDK in Altery...

Ever wondered how to build a new analytic tool from scratch using the Alteryx Python SDK, but didn’t know where to start? This blog post takes you through the absolute basics to ge...

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.

Alteryx + Predictive Analytics + Caffeine = Opiate Prescribe...

Data-Science Design Patterns: Cost-Sensitive Learning

Many if not most supervised-classification problems involve some degree of class imbalance, where at least one class occurs more frequently than the others. The imbalanced-classifi...

GoogleVis, R and Alteryx! Oh my!

Alteryx has a lot of built in functionality, but the ability to leverage custom R code opens up even more possibilities. After reading an answer on the Alteryx Community many month...

Alteryx Data Science Design Patterns: Combining Models

Most real-world data-science design patterns combine several models to solve a single business problem. This post surveys the most common and effective techniques for combining mod...

Alteryx Data Science Design Patterns: Cross Validation

Cross validation (CV) is a difficult topic. There are many ways to do CV, and articles on the subject can be very technical. This blog post is a gentle introduction to CV. Read it...

Alteryx Data Science Design Patterns: Predictive Model Form,...

Understanding fitting algorithms is the final hurdle between you and some juicy data science design patterns. Make the leap!

Alteryx Data Science Design Patterns: Predictive Model Form,...

Nothing is more stylish than a well-fitted induction algorithm.

Alteryx Data Science Design Patterns: Predictive Model Form,...

An advanced-analytics model's induction algorithm is its prediction engine. Learn what induction-algorithm features distinguish parametric statistical models and machine-learning m...

Pumpkins, Pythons, and Platforms: Candy Sales Analysis with...

Alteryx isn't just a tool, it's a platform. We'll explore this, Halloween style, using Python in a Jupyter notebook to connect to an Alteryx application that performs demographic c...

Alteryx Data Science Design Patterns: Predictive Model Form,...

Learn why "all models are wrong, but some models are useful."

Alteryx Data Science Design Patterns: Predictive Model Form,...

Citizen data scientist? Learn design patterns that let you use Alteryx to build data-science expertise into your data analyses and analytical models!

Operationalizing an Alteryx Predictive Model with Azure ML

You’ve blended your data. Cleansed it. Trained your model. Made more models. Tweaked them. Compared them. You’ve picked THE BEST model. It’s perfect. Now what? You need to get the...

Bringing the Power of R to Alteryx

As a fairly new developer on the Core Engines team, I am thrilled to have the opportunity of adding functionality to the R Tool.