Data Science

Text Classification in Alteryx

How machine learning models for text can power up productivity

Football (Soccer) Analytics: Using Alteryx to Predict the Wo...

How we can take data from every international match to undertake historical analysis and then use this to predict future results, including the world cup!

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.

Tackling the Titanic Kaggle Competition with Assisted Modeli...

I'll give a shoutout in the subsequent Tackling Competitions Post to the person with the best score in the previous post as an added incentive!

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...

Outbreak Analytics: Data Science Strategies for a Novel Prob...

You walk down one aisle of the grocery store to get your favorite cereal. On the dairy aisle, someone sick from COVID-19 coughs. Did your decision to grab your cereal before your m...

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...

Adventures in Data: Exploratory Data Analysis

You want to jump right into that fantastic dataset, but wait! Let's do some exploration to map out your journey and gain even more insight.

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.

Stop Being in de-NILE: A Code Free & Code Friendly Exercise...

Extracting Additional Information from the Predictive Tools

Extracting additional information about a model trained with a predictive tool is possible because of the way the predictive tools are built - containing an R tool with R code that...

Expand Your Predictive Palette II: Beyond K-Means

Expand Your Predictive Palette II: Beyond K-Means

Book Review: Machine Learning with R

Code Friendly Data Structures: Data Frames in R

Synthesizing Fake Data for Fun and Profit

Predictive Process Step 1: Finding Your Target Variable

Expand Your Predictive Palette: XGBoost in Alteryx!

With the debut of the Python tool in Alteryx Designer 2018.3, many great macros from PDF table extraction to Parquet file integration are born. As a citizen data scientist, the fir...

Filling in the Blanks: An Introduction to Spatial Interpolat...

Spatial interpolation is the process of using points with known data values to estimate values at other, unknown points.

Vector and Raster: A Tale of Two Spatial Data Types

In the world of spatial analysis, there are two major varieties of data: vector and raster. The divide between these two data types and the people that use them has raged on for de...

Using Alteryx Tools for the Occupancy Detection Problem

Let's see if we can cut down our energy consumption - FROM 97.7 QUADRILLION BTU!

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...

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)...

Life or Death: Prediction with the Titanic Dataset

Part 3 of 3: The final portion of predicting which Titanic passengers would survive.

Life or Death: Missingness in the Titanic Dataset

Part 2 of 3: The imputation portion of predicting which Titanic passengers would survive.

Life or Death: Feature Engineering for the Titanic Dataset

Part 1 of 3: The feature engineering portion of predicting which Titanic passengers would survive.

Alteryx Tackles the 2018 FIFA World Cup: Investigating the W...

TLDR: the curse is real.

Alteryx Tackles the 2018 FIFA World Cup: Simulating the Grou...

Where we dive deep into the simulation techniques used, and see how we did.

Alteryx Tackles the 2018 FIFA World Cup: Group Round Predict...

Just in time before the first game begins, Alteryx predicts which Teams Will Advance out of the Group Round.

Voronoi (Thiessen) Polygons and Delaunay Triangles in Altery...

Voronoi Tesselation and Delaunay Trianglulation both perform spatial calculations on a set of irregular points. Voronoi Cells (sometimes referred to as Thiessen Polygons in the GIS...

The Drivers of Opioid Prescription Rates in England

Dr. Dan examines opioid abuse in England and compares it to behavior across the pond.