Data Science

Machine learning & data science for beginners and experts alike.

Intelligence Suite

11 min to read

Analyzing Customer Reviews with the Topic Modeling Tool

If you struggle to analyze customer feedback data, the Topic Modeling tool from AIS can help!

Machine Learning

25 min to read

Type Inference for Natural Language

In this post, we’ll walk through the steps that we at Alteryx Machine Learning took to build a function that could perform natural language type inference.

Computer Vision

4 min to read

Efficient Extraction of Company Insights: 10-K form with AIS...

A 10-K SEC filing use case using Alteryx Intelligence Suite computer vision and text mining.

2 min to read

Topic Modeling with Alteryx: Part 4 of 4

Once we create and train our model to identify topics within the data we have, the next step is to use that trained model to assign topics to new data we receive, while avoiding ru...

4 min to read

Topic Modeling with Alteryx: Part 2 of 4

Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and interacting with the results.

1 min to read

Automated Labeling of Training Data: All About Compose

Learn about how Compose, one of our Alteryx Open Source Python libraries, can help you label your data and automatically extract training examples for your modeling problem.

Machine Learning

8 min to read

Am I the...Data Geek Who Analyzed Reddit AITA Posts? Yes.

Topic modeling and sentiment analysis reveal the answer to the age-old question, "AITA?" — with a bonus refresher on correlation and contingency tables.

5 min to read

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.

Machine Learning

6 min to read

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.

Machine Learning

8 min to read

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.

4 min to read

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.

5 min to read

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.

6 min to read

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.

5 min to read

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.

5 min to read

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.

5 min to read

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.

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...

Python

19 min to read

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

10 min to read

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...

Machine Learning

15 min to read

Word2vec for the Alteryx Community

Word embeddings are vector representations of words, where more similar words will have similar locations in vector space. First developed by a team of researchers at Google led by...

Alteryx Designer

23 min to read

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...

Alteryx Designer

8 min to read

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.

Classification

9 min to read

Naive Bayes in Python

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