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.
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.
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.
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.
Article 400 – Decoding The Global Warming Book
This article summarizes eight years of global warming research. It also happens to be my 400th article. There is a lot of information packed into the links.
Using My Global Warming Algorithm to Predict Future Temperatures
Eight years ago, I had no idea that my work would lead to the topic of this article. Predicting temperatures far into the future is really hard to do. Somehow, I’ve managed to create a method that seems pretty good at doing that.
Global Warming Insights In Small Pieces (Part 3)
This is part 3 of a story that documents a recent trip to California.
Truthful Global Warming Insights
Eight years of data-driven global warming research is wrapped up in this article. You can unpack a half-a-billion data points in this article to explore the ideas for yourself. You can download Tableau dashboards that will teach you a thing or two about linear modeling. Most of all, you will gain a better understanding of what is going on across our beautiful planet if you take the time to study this work.
The Value of Alteryx
Is Alteryx valuable enough for you? To help you decide, I’ve written a few thoughts on the topic. Please read the article to learn more.
How To Help People Improve Their Careers
Have you ever thought about helping people that you will likely never meet? I’ve been thinking about that for more than a decade. I’ve also been trying to make it happen by writing articles that share information in hopes of helping people become inspired to help others. This story explains how that all happened.
How To ACE The Alteryx Advanced Certification Test
If you want to pass the Alteryx Advanced Certification exam, you might consider reading this article. If you are not willing to do some work and take some sound advice, skip this article.
The Alteryx Advantages
I’ve been using and testing Alteryx for eight years. I’ve made tens of thousands of Alteryx runs. I’ve experienced thousands of hours of compute time. What have I learned? You will need to read the article to find out.
A Useful DMA Shapefile For #Tableau and #Alteryx
In this article, the technique of polygon generalization is used to reduce the complexity of DMA boundaries. This boundary change makes preparing and displaying DMA-based data much faster in Tableau.
The Making of A Home Office
It took a month to make a new home office for me. This is the story of how that happened.
How To Use Python, Alteryx, and OCR / AI to Extract Data From Images
In this article, I use a little bit of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to save myself from having to do a few hours of mundane data entry. It’s not as hard as you think it is to do something like this if you have the ability to use Python and Alteryx.