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Sporting Predictions - How I Predicted the Results of Footba...

Read on to see if I successfully predicted all of Reading's final games in the season.

Monitoring Record Count Through an Alteryx Workflow

Have you ever built a workflow only to find out later that you’re losing a bunch of your records after trying to Join a couple files together?

Elasticsearch, will it Alteryx?

Presto, will it Alteryx?

Extending Alteryx HDFS Support: Better Living Through Macros

A customer recently asked how they could read in multiple files all at once from their HDFS server. The answer? Make a Macro! See how it's done and get a few nifty utilities to add...

Download Gmail Attachments with Alteryx

Do people regularly send you email attachments that are needed in your analytic workflows? If so, this blog post is for you. The Gmail Attachment Input tool automatically downloads...

I Am The Developer Toolset (And So Can You!)

Think the Developer toolset isn't for you? Think again. Start using these tools and change the way you are building workflows.

The Blogs of 2015

We have plenty of clients, ACEs, partners and employees who are inspired enough about Alteryx that they are blogging on their own, defining best practices in the analytics world wi...

The Ultimate Alteryx Holiday gift of 2015: Read All Excel Wo...

"How do I read from multiple Excel workbooks/worksheets?" is a question we hear fairly regularly. Let's put together an Alteryx macro that will read any number of Excel worksheets...

Navigating the Canvas

Larger workflows sometimes require a little extra effort to navigate around. We are exploring some enhancements to make it easier to move across a large canvas and we would love to...

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...

The All New Omnibus Wholly Integrated Tabular, Spatial, Snip...

Ok, so that's a bit much.But the new Browse tool in Alteryx 4.1 is almost (almost!) that cool.The first thing to note is that there is now just one Br