Introduction - Enoch Bishop

[Enoch_Bishop]

Hi everyone,

I am Enoch and I have been working in the Healthcare industry going on 17 years. I have taken a non-traditional journey to get here.

During my journey I went to school while working full time, so I wasn't able to get into the program I really
wanted which was Manufacturing Engineering as it would have required me to not work to be in the program. So I took a different round about approach to obtain my higher education by achieving an MBA from (Westminster College) which was acquired in 2006 and then because I was working in the Healthcare industry, I pursued and achieved a Master of Healthcare Administration - Informatics degree from (University of Phoenix).

I love to learn and to share what I learn and have an insatiable hunger for knowledge and purpose filled experiences. I enjoy learning about and using the following applications/tools: Power BI, Power Automation, Share Point, SQL, Oracle, Toad, Excel, Visual Basic For Applications, Power Query, Python and enjoy learning and applying methods relating to Statistics, Process Improvement, Data Analysis, Data Wrangling, Data Operations and Data Science in my current role.

I enjoy Date Nights with my Wife, Family Time, Church, Chess, Settlers of Catan, Golf, Dancing, Music (Most Genre's), Learning new board games to play, Drawing with graphite and ink, Learning/Creating Computer Graphics, 3D Art and Animation for Game Development via (Blender and Inkscape).

Looking forward to expanding my network of understanding and connections.

If you ever want to connect you can find me out on LinkedIn, just send me an invitation and I will accept:
Enoch A. Bishop, MBA, MHA-Informatics
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebishop84084/

Thank you,

Enoch Bishop

Official title: "Network Operations Professional 2"

Job: (Network Analyst) and (Data Analyst) in the Healthcare Industry

General Location: Utah - USA (Mountain Time zone)

[AbhilashR]

Welcome to the Community @Enoch_Bishop!

[TheOC]

hey @Enoch_Bishop, Great to hear about your background! I've actually more recently (the last year or so) been getting into board games, with Catan being the latest purchase, so I'm looking forward to trying that and learning to play. I've also tried to dabble in Games Development too by learning Unity, however I'm terrible with anything art-based, so I fall over as soon as design comes into it 😂

I hope you are enjoying Alteryx so far! By the sounds of it, it will fit into your line of work very quickly, and hopefully take over and automate a lot of your less interesting tasks. 

I've also followed you on Linkedin, looking forward to connecting 😀

Be sure to have a look around the community - its really a fantastic place for learning. A couple of resources I would especially recommend knowing about are:

• Alteryx Designer Discussions - A place where users can ask questions about specific Designer workflows they are working on, and receive help from members on the community. Typical response time (from what I've seen) is under 10 minutes for someone to reply with a potential solution, so its a very quick resource for bespoke information. Additionally, you can search using the search function at the top right for specific issues if you happen to run into any that may have been faced by other users before.
• Alteryx User Groups - When I first got into Alteryx, I didn't join User Groups as I thought they would be very technical and that I would need plenty of experience before diving in. However, they really aren't. User groups are an incredibly friendly environment to discuss workflows, what's going on in the Alteryx World, and a great place to network with people in the community. Even better, with the world still being very much virtual at the moment, most of the User Groups (including the North East UK User Group, which I am currently a leader of) are hosting virtual events so they are easy to join.
• The Alteryx Academy - Easily the best place to learn about Alteryx and how to use it. I would especially recommend the learning paths which include short snippets of learning specific topics, including Alteryx for Excel users, which helped me translate a lot of my Excel knowledge over to Alteryx. There are also the weekly challenges, which are challenges delivered by Alteryx on a weekly basis, based around real-life situations and community submitted problems. They are a fantastic way to learn practical uses of Designer, and also its really interesting to see the many different approaches to answering the same problem. Once you have progressed with learning Alteryx, I would definitely recommend the Alteryx Certifications. They are free to do (Core and Advanced), and provide a useful benchmark for your knowledge. You can also just take them again in 7 days, in the case that you don't pass, so don't feel any pressure to know everything before you give them a go!

I hope you find Alteryx to be easy to learn, and intuitive to use. Do remember that almost every tool has an example workflow and help documentation if you right click the tool in the tool palette:

("Help" for the tool documentation, "Open Example" for the example workflow). 

And be sure to search for/ask for help on the community if you get stuck. Alternatively, feel free to drop me a message here on the community!

Cheers,
TheOC