Introduction I have determined that I will not become a video blogger (I feel like a big dork on camera!). However, I awoke today with a thought that must be completed. I feel compelled to continue this story by doing what the great Paul Harvey used to do. He would say something to the effect…
Introduction Chas and Ken (Figure 1) learned about Alteryx and Tableau on Saturday. We decided to create a video blog of the experience. This article includes a series of videos that take you along the journey of discovery. We decided to process global travel data to show how a complex situation can be turned into…
Introduction According to ESPN, it is now time to sign up for Fantasy Football (Figure 1).
Introduction There are a couple of relatively new blogs that focus on Alteryx and Tableau. I really like both of these. The insights I gain from them are meaningful. They are well-done and authors do a great job of explaining their topics.
This article demonstrates how to implement custom geocoding for Airport IATA codes in Tableau.
When you review these results, the brilliance of the fuzzy matching algorithms begins to be seen. You can see that spaces in the names are accounted for, Jr/Sr’s are accounted for, and even the swapping of the first and last names are accounted for. To me, this is a superb result and gives me great confidence is using the fuzzy matching results.
Introduction To understand this article better, you might consider clicking here to read part one of this article.  After that, you can read part two by clicking here. Â
Introduction What I describe in this article is a small piece of a fairly big and complicated Alteryx workflow that involves a lot of operations. I wish I could explain the whole sequence of events, but for now, I have to settle on this small technical detail related to rounding currencies to the nearest dollar.…
Introduction On May 23, 2015, a flash flood formed in the Blanco River and slammed the residents of Wimberley, TX. Houses were instantaneously removed from their foundations, giant trees were snapped in half, and tree bark was removed for over 30 feet into the air because the depth of the flood was so great. The…
Introduction Last week, I drove over 4,000 miles to spend a couple of days in Boston, MA. It was a delightful journey for many reasons. This article will explain what I did and why IÂ took this cross-country journey. I will also explain what it means to me to be selected as an Alteryx ACE.
Having a super fast data processing engine doesn’t help if you have to pull a terabyte of data from a data warehouse only to find a subset of it and produce a report.
Update August, 2015 Google changed their minds and broke this technology. It is a shame. Click here to read about what they did to make this approach no longer work. You can still gain some insight to Rich’s podcasts by viewing my original article, but the easy navigation links are no longer valid. Sorry folks.…
Blogs are basically terrible at showing their content. Articles get buried over time and forgotten by everyone…
Today (4/22/15) Omar wrote a couple of comments to the original article that provided the fix needed to make the maps appear automatically once they are selected from the map menu. This allows you to quickly toggle between background map types without having to hit those pesky check-boxes.
Allan is so cool that I sometimes get him confused with Walker, Texas Ranger, played by Chuck Norris. Figures 1 and 2 show you what I mean.