Engine Works

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

Alteryx Designer

what3words in Alteryx

This post highlights how we can develop our own what3words database using Alteryx, not because we want to rip it off, but because it highlights a couple of analytical techniques wh...

Alteryx Designer

How to Access Snowflake in Your Hosted Designer Trial

If you’re excited to try out an Alteryx Designer hosted trial with your existing Snowflake instance, follow the instructions in this article.

Alteryx Designer

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.

Apps and Macros

Dynamic Hard Coding – Chained App Sorcery

“McEleavey, you Brobdingnagian cognoscente,” spoke Jeff, “how on Earth do we pass through Value X and have this influence the wording in the second app?”

Analytics

The Beginner’s Guide to Implementing Alteryx in Your Organiz...

The goal of this article is to help professionals understand and start implementing Alteryx in their organization or team, solving business problems in an elegant and scalable way.

Apps and Macros

Simple Python Macros – It’s Easier Than You Think!

You don’t need to know how to code in order to make code work. This blog will show how to build your own macro to send smartphone notifications with Alteryx.

Apps and Macros

Using Alteryx to Perform Data Dictionary Checks

A macro to test data against a data dictionary.

Prep and Blend

Output multiple excel files with multiple sheets based on 2...

Learn how to output multiple excel files with multiple sheets based on two different fields

Best Practices

Accepted Solution Deep Dive – to RegEx or Not to RegEx

Top Alteryx ACE Mark Frisch walks you through a text parsing problem that will teach you how to fish.

Developer

Alexa, Run my Workflow

Can I use Alexa to communicate with this API in order to trigger a workflow on our Alteryx Server, rather than me having to go through the tedious process of moving my mouse a coup...

Common Use Case

Data Prep | Trending Hospitalizations

How the Generate Rows tool can help prepare a data set with missing rows of data to trend the total number of patients in a hospital, while also providing information on the number...

Common Use Case

Utilizing CMS Physician Professional Fee Data as Benchmarks...

Creating benchmarks for clinical physician offices in the state of Pennsylvania, allowing physician to compare their billing practice to those of their peers.