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Author Archives: Kenneth C Black

Jett’s First European Trip – Day 2

This is the second article of a series that describes Jett’s first European trip. In Day 2, we visited Pompeii and the Amalfi coast.

March 1, 2025 in Jett Black, Kenny Cool, Life, travel.

Jett’s First European Trip – Day 1

This is the first article of a series that describes Jett’s first European trip. We started the trip with a whirlwind tour of London, thanks to my great friend James.

February 24, 2025 in Jett Black, Kenny Cool, Life.

Quantifying How NASCAR Races Have Ended Over Time

I took a look at 75 years of NASCAR data to see if my perceptions of how the sport has changed over time. This article includes a time series graphic that supports my intuition of how the sport has changed.

May 23, 2024 in Alteryx, NASCAR, Tableau.

Using Alteryx to Perform Analysis of NASCAR Races

In this podcast, I describe some of the work I do in Performance Motor Sports. The NASCAR seasons offer a lot of surprises, excitement and opportunities to use Data Science to our advantage to help our teams win more races.

May 15, 2024 in Alteryx, Big Data, General Motors, Kenny Cool, Sports, Tableau.

Are You Considering Adding Living Space To Your Basement?

We decided to add additional living space to our house by transforming the basement storage areas into usable rooms. This took over a year to complete. We learned a lot and want to share some of the insights with you.

December 10, 2023 in Kenny Cool, Life, Tableau, Woodworking.

Using Alteryx To Understand Climate Change

This is my second appearance on the Alteryx podcast. In this episode, I talk about my decade of work on climate change. It isn’t very technical, but I hope people appreciate the insights.

August 30, 2023 in Alteryx, Big Data, Climate Change, Life, Tableau.

Interesting Things (4)

I saw an engine building demonstration recently that I thought was very interesting. I thought it would be a good topic to share in this series.

May 31, 2023 in Interesting Things, Kenny Cool, Life.

Interesting Things (3)

Sometimes time lapse photography can surprise you with activities that you didn’t notice were happening when you made the movie.

May 25, 2023 in Interesting Things, Kenny Cool, Life.

Interesting Things (2)

The AI powered image enhancer program named Remini was used to make a future avatar of our 6-month old grandson. The results surprised everyone in our family!

May 25, 2023 in Interesting Things, Kenny Cool, Life.

Benchmarking An Alteryx Batch Macro (Group By vs. Control Parameters)

This article examines the computational performance of Alteryx batch macros. A comparison is made between the Control parameter design vs the Group by design.

May 13, 2023 in Alteryx, Tableau.

Interesting Things (1)

Interviewing a 6-week-old baby.

January 4, 2023 in Interesting Things, Kenny Cool, Life.

What Does Malware Look Like, And How Do You Remove it Once It Invades Your Blog?

My Datablends blog got hacked in early October, 2022. The next month was not a fun time. I spent many hours on the phone trying to understand how to fix the problems. In this article, I summarize what I learned and did to eliminate the malware that infected my blog.

November 3, 2022 in Kenny Cool, Life, Web Development.

The Timing of Global Warming Development

This article investigates the sensitivity of my global warming simulator to the length of the simulations. I wanted to understand if 10, 20 , 30 or more years of data would be required before stable temperature predictions would be achieved.

November 2, 2022 in Alteryx, Big Data, Climate Change, Tableau.

How To Design A Fun and Exciting Online Analytics Competition

This article discusses how I helped build the first-ever Alteryx E-Grand Prix competition. The article includes thoughts on building the competition problems and the behind-the-scenes activities that have to happen to make this type of event successful.

August 18, 2022 in Alteryx, Climate Change, Kenny Cool, Life.

Do You Think She Was Surprised?

This article shows a gender reveal party we had for Sarah and Cory. It was a fun event, full of surprises!

June 1, 2022 in Jett Black, Life.

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