Engine Works

Under the hood of Alteryx: tips, tricks and how-tos.

It's the most wonderful time of the year - Santalytics 2020 is here! This year, Santa's workshop needs the help of the Alteryx Community to help get back on track, so head over to the Group Hub for all the info to get started!

Apps and Macros

Alteryx Analytic Apps Introduction and Deep Dive Series: Par...

The chicken or the egg of Analytic Apps

Apps and Macros

Alteryx Analytic Apps Introduction and Deep Dive Series: Par...

Part 1: Introduction to Analytic Apps

Release | New Feature

Neat New Features! 2020.3

Welcome to our second release note roundup, a short and snappy blog covering tips and tricks you may not have seen in 2020.3 hidden behind the big keynote headlines, allowing us to...

Creating a Mandelbrot Set in Alteryx

Take a look at a few different ways to recreate the Mandelbrot set within Alteryx - using just the BaseA tools - plus pros and cons of each approach and the performance of the new...

Platform | Product

10 Reasons Why IT Loves Alteryx

Learn how a successful modern analytics platform can deliver both IT control as well as end-user autonomy and agility.

Alteryx Designer

Pass Go, Faster: What’s the quickest way 'round the Monopoly...

In this blog, we look at how Gwilym could have used Alteryx to optimise his route planning to visit all the locations on the London Monopoly using a few different optimisation stra...

Developer

Auditing Alteryx Workflows

Using this macro, you can output a list of all tools and their respective configurations in a neatly formatted table - the trick is to read in an Alteryx workflow (.yxmd) as a text...

Platform | Product

Neat New Features! 2020.2

Welcome to our first release note roundup, a short and snappy blog covering tips and tricks you may not have seen in 2020.2 hidden behind the big keynote headlines, allowing us to...

Platform | Product

AMPlify your Workflows

Let's explore what kind of performance benefits one might see by switching to the AMP Engine! The exact performance differences will be determined by the tools, data sizes, and und...

Common Use Case

First Steps in Alteryx Designer

So, you are new to Alteryx and you find an administrator version, non-administrator, licenses, predictive tools...

Platform | Product

AMP Engine Technical Deep Dive | Part 2 | Key concepts of th...

You've read about "Why AMP?" Now let's learn about the how - record packets, the memory allocator and the task scheduler.

Can the real [Field Name] please stand up...

My initial thought as I was staring at the simplicity of the solution in front of me was, "Wow, so simple, and yet so amazingly useful! How come I never realised this before?"