2021 Q3 Midwest Meeting Recap

[Kenda]

Hello everyone! We hope you had a great weekend.

For those who were not able to attend or those who want to revisit our combined Midwest user group meeting from last week, here are all of the details!

• First, @Jarrod led our discussion on the power of Calgary! For more information on this topic throughout the community, see these articles:
  • https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Knowledge-Base/How-To-Create-a-Calgary-Database/ta...
  • https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works/How-To-Rapidly-Retrieve-Data-From-Large-Data-Sets-Usin...
• Next, @ggruccio showed us how he started using Python in Alteryx and how you can, too!
  • Some resources Gary mentioned included:
    • https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-TensorFlow-dp-1492032646/dp/1492032646/re...
    • https://www.amazon.com/Python-Data-Analysis-Wrangling-IPython-ebook/dp/B075X4LT6K
    • https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Scratch-Principles-Python/dp/149190142X
  • I then quickly shared some cool updates that were in the 2021.3 release
    • https://help.alteryx.com/release-notes/designer/designer-20213-release-notes
  • Last but not least, @patrick_digan walked us through a group solve of Weekly Challenge #49.

And here is the recording: 

We hope you all enjoyed our one-of-a-kind combined Midwest user group meeting! Let us know how you’re thinking about applying Calgary or python in your next Alteryx challenge in the comments below. See you in Q4!

Indiana User Group Leaders: @Jarrod, @patrick_digan, & @Kenda

Michigan User Group Leader: @MarqueeCrew

Ohio User Group Leader: @ggruccio

[jarrod]

Just a couple notes on Calgary:

Calgary Relative Table join App/macro.
C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin\RuntimeData\Analytic_Apps

Install files - save ini files here: (example ini install files attached)

C:\ProgramData\Alteryx\DataProducts\DataSets\Calgary

Also, join the campaign to get Calgary into the drop down tool for easier use in apps/macros:

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Ideas/Include-calgary-datasets-in-dropdown-interfa...

Great meeting all! Can't wait for next quarter!

[Kenda]

Another awesome resource on the community for Python + Alteryx: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works/Simple-Python-Macros-It-s-Easier-Than-You-Think/bc-p/8... 

[jarrod]

One more thing that we unfortunately couldn't track down was a comment left in chat about the pdf tools breaking in 21.3. In a separate thread someone had luck with reinstalling pdftools and rcpp packages following Ben's guidance in the article below:

https://www.theinformationlab.co.uk/2019/01/17/installing-r-packages-both-on-alteryx-designer-and-on...

[STP]

Thank you @Kenda for including us and thank you @jarrod, @MarqueeCrew, @ggruccio, @patrick_digan for the great content.