Data Science

Machine learning & data science for beginners and experts alike.

Ho, Ho … Ow! Identifying Holiday Hazards with Topic Modeling

Let's use data science to find out where danger lurks among the sparkly lights and shiny ornaments. One dangerous item is something you probably use year-round.

How Your City Feels, According to Social Media

Use the Alteryx tools you know and love to find out how people feel about local and regional issues.

First 48 Hours: Text Mining Toolkit Review

When I was asked to do a review on the text mining tools, I jumped at the opportunity.

Getting to the Point with Topic Modeling | Part 3 - Interpre...

Part 3 in our Topic Modeling series guides you through the visualization that this tool provides, including the bar chart and the intertopic distance map.

Sources Agree: Data Science Skills Go Beyond Data

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

Getting to the Point with Topic Modeling | Part 2 - How to C...

Get your Topic Modeling tool configured correctly for success! Part 2 of our series explains how to set up your analysis.

Getting to the Point with Topic Modeling | Part 1 - What is...

Let's launch into LDA, the algorithm behind the Topic Modeling tool in Alteryx. Get the details in Part 1 of this new series.

Text Normalization in Alteryx

Our text pre-processing project continues! Find out about stemming, lemmatization and other important ways to prep your text for analysis.

Tokenization and Filtering Stopwords with the Text Pre-Proce...

Clean up that text! Learn how to use the Text Pre-processing tool to get your text ready for further analysis.

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...

NLP
Python

Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for Community Topic...

Understanding the topic of a piece of writing is typically an easy task for people. However, there are times where we need to train our computers to find topics in a collection of...

Alteryx Designer

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...