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

Displaying articles for: September 2015

Big Data

Tackle your Big Data Use Cases with Alteryx in-Database

With version 10.0, Alteryx extends our in-database capabilities to include support for platforms that came up in discussions with customers, prospects and partners as related to th...

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CEF, REST, and other acronyms

I had been with Alteryx for about two months when I started hearing people talk about CEF [Chromium Embedded Framework]. I did a little digging on my own, and true to its name, fou...

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The Efficiency Boost App: An App Enforcing Efficient Design

It seems that much of the vast appeal of Alteryx to so many people is the degree to which workflows remove the programming part of data analysis. This makes it easier to focus on t...

Apps and Macros

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Crew Macro Pack - New Release Coming Soon

For anyone who doesn't know, the Crew Macro pack is a collection of community built and community supported Alteryx macros which I have collected together in a single installable p...

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Real fun with Alteryx

Think you're having fun with Alteryx? Think again.

Alteryx Designer

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The Cache Dataset Macro

Developing resource-intensive workflows can be a challenge when testing changes involves running the workflow through iterations that may take several minutes or more before being...