Kansas City Alteryx User Group 1Q22 Meeting Recap
March 8, 2022, 2:00 to 3:00 PM CST
We had a small group—still have a bit of a COVID hangover—but we are hopeful the meeting was useful. Ashley started the meeting out with Alteryx Community and product updates.
- Alteryx Designer Cloud Demo; Unfortunately, a scheduling conflict meant we had to show a brief video instead of demoing the tool, as we had hoped. Basically, the power of Alteryx Designer will now be available in a cloud environment. Mac and Linux users should be particularly excited, but it will also help with license management, updates and improve access and experience for Designer users across the spectrum.
- Alteryx Academy: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Academy/ct-p/alteryx-academy
- Alteryx Gallery is now in the community! https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Community-Gallery/ct-p/Community-gallery
- Alteryx SparkEd (rhymes with parked—despite the capitalization) https://www.alteryx.com/sparked : Great program to provide free software for educators, students and career changing professionals. I am currently utilizing a free license through the program, and I am very grateful! It is a fantastic way to develop your skills, I highly recommend you check it out.
- Alteryx Credly Digital Badge Program: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Community-Resources/Credly-Badge-Earner-Guide/ta-p/827491 : Show off your skills with certification badges!
- Alteryx Data Science Portal alteryx.com/data-science : Info for current and aspiring data scientists.
- Alteryx Inspire is going to be In-person May 16-19 in Denver Colorado, this year! There will also be a virtual inspire available from May 20-24. More info here: alteryx.com/inspire
- Hoping to have an in person KC Alteryx User Group Meetup in Late April, please reach out to Ashley or myself to let us know if you are interested.
- Finally, I went over Weekly Challenge 136—Cluedo! For those keeping score at home, the problem that temporarily sidetracked my solve was getting overzealous with the Data Cleansing tool. I accidentally removed the space from between the culprits first and last name, thus breaking my join. [NOTE: I guess @Christi_Sutton tried to point it out, but I didn’t hear her—good catch, sorry for ignoring you!] Naturally, it all goes south when presenting live. I will attach the annotated workflow if anyone is interested in exploring it. Hope I didn't go over it too fast, I sometimes struggle with finding the right pacing. Useful links for this solve:
We had a bit of Q&A, as well. Regarding the utilization of Alteryx in FP&A—there are 30 finance use cases on community, found here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Use-Cases/tkb-p/use-cases?department_Finance=on&sort=DESC-p... We are also happy to explore presenting other use cases and trying to have some more basic use cases presented. Please let us know if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions. Thank you all for taking the time out of your schedule to join, we hope it was valuable.
Here is the meeting recording:
Best Regards,
Michael & Ashley @alv728
