Welcome to the Houston Alteryx User Group!

[Astromark]

At long last we have an Alteryx user group in Houston!

Please take a moment by introducing yourself and answering the questions below.

1. What is your name, title, and which industry do you work in?
2. What's your favorite website for techy things?
3. How do you currently use Alteryx?
4. What areas would you like to grow in?
5. Which professional Houston sports team will win a championship next?

When you have some time, please take this quick survey so we can start planning our first meet up!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X5LYTXS

Again, welcome to the group and we look forward to getting to know all of you.

Mark Rudkin - Houston User Group Lead

Senior Manager, Market Research & Analytics

Houston Airport System

[brisims34]

Hi Everyone,

Happy to see Alteryx picking up in Houston. For my answers the introduction questions see below. Looking forward to participating in this group!

1. What is your name, title, and which industry do you work in?
   1. Brian Sims, Manager and Houston BU Technical Leader for KPMG Audit Data Analytics - Primarily in oil and gas, chemicals and energy and power industries
2. What's your favorite website for techy things?
1. Data Science Central
2. Kaggle
3. Big Data University
3. How do you currently use Alteryx?
1. Looking at applying pattern recognition for financial (public and non-public) audits
2. Computer aided audit techniques for comparisons and vouching
3. Audit schedule optimizatio
4. What areas would you like to grow in?
   1. The R tools in Alteryx
5. Which professional Houston sports team will win a championship next?
   1. Toss up between Texans or Rockets. I think the Astros still have a ways to go.

[kenters]

Hi all,

1. My name is Karin Enters and I am a project manager at KPMG (global mobility services - technology). 
2. I don't have one but that may change soon.
3. Just took Alteryx training in July so slowly getting up to speed. Starting with dataflows to increase efficiencies but working up towards more predictive analytics
4. Everyting Alteryx has to offer with the ultimate goal to be an 'expert' at predictive analytics
5. I wish I could say the Texans  :-(

Looking forward to learning a lot from this group.

Karin

[mks]

Hi all-

Nice to finally find a user group that isn't in Dallas or Austin so I can actually participate and attend events. See my answers below.

1. Michael Stringfellow - Team Lead and Technical Architect, BI Services Group at Invesco
2. I find myself on Stack Overflow alot and have been playing around on d3js.org for custom visualizations.
3. Using Alteryx for POCs around predictive analytics.
4. Right now concentrating on R and Python for data analysis/predictive analytics.
5. Astros are the closest unless Brock somehow finds some accuracy. I'd like for it to be the Texans.

Thanks

[jmotlagh]

1. What is your name, title, and which industry do you work in?
   1. John N. Motlagh, Managing Partner, Data Consulting
2. What's your favorite website for techy things?
   1. Tech Crunch, any thing for gadgets!
3. How do you currently use Alteryx?
   1. To streamline data and posting from various data sources to SQL servers
4. What areas would you like to grow in?
   1. Learn more alteryx through wider variety of projects
5. Which professional Houston sports team will win a championship next?
   1. Not being a huge sports fan, I would have to put my money behind the Houston Bounty Hunters,professional dodgeball, who knew?

[jubailc]

1. What is your name, title, and which industry do you work in?

My name is Jubail Caballero and I'm an analytics consultant with InterWorks. I come from a retail background but have clients across different industries. I'm new to the area, having just relocated from Bentonville, AR (home to Walmart HQ).

2. What's your favorite website for techy things?

I find Wired always has interesting articles on tech. The New Yorker will have interesting ones every now and then as well.

3. How do you currently use Alteryx?

It varies across clients. Lately, it has been macro development, application orchestration, and data management.

4. What areas would you like to grow in?

I would like to beef up my R / Python skills.

5. Which professional Houston sports team will win a championship next?

The Texans of course!

[Astromark]

Welcome Jubail! We are still ironing out a date for the first meeting of our group. Have a great week.

Mark Rudkin

Houston User Group Lead

[jubailc]

Thanks Mark! I'd love to join and get to know each one of you. Please keep me posted on location / date. Thanks!

[RobinSturgis]

1. What is your name, title, and which industry do you work in?  
   Robin Sturgis, Principal, Consulting, primarily in the financial sector
2. What's your favorite website for techy things?  
   I would like to expand my "library" of tech resources
3. How do you currently use Alteryx?  
   Primarily for a flexible and comprehensive connector to Salesforce and Pardot
4. What areas would you like to grow in?
    Better understanding of APIs
5. Which professional Houston sports team will win a championship next?  
   I hope the Texans!

[DSledge]

1) David Sledge
Information Delivery Services - Client
Services Supervisor
Oil & Gas - Upstream E&P

2) Spiceworks / Stack Overflow

3) We are just starting with Alteryx but I plan
to introduce as a tool for the Drilling &
Completions, Geo subsurface and Land
departments.

4) Not sure yet?

5) Astros!