Introduction I have a confession to make. I love my job because #IWorkForGM. General Motors (GM) has been the best company I have ever worked for. I hope it is the last company I work for. About a decade ago, I wrote an article about Mary Barra that has proven prescient. Her leadership is one…
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.
This is part 3 of a story that documents a recent trip to California.
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.
Learning to solve complex problems takes time, practice and patience. It also requires great software like Alteryx and Tableau. For the past two months, I’ve taken a deep dive into a naturally complex system. I feel like a deep diver that needs to come up for a breath of fresh air.
In Kenny Cool episode #2, I discuss how much fun I recently had working with real NFL data as part of a competition.
Contrary to the “Agony of an Eduction”, this article expresses the joy of an education. The joy comes from first learning to use Tableau.
I quantified how much I use Alteryx. I enjoyed doing the study, although it hurt my brain.
This article focuses on efficiently retrieving specific events from big-data sources. Certain techniques are introduced in Alteryx to allow this to happen, including the use of the Calgary Load and Calgary Join tools.
In this article, I benchmark an Alteryx workflow to show how Alteryx can be a very valuable tool in a large enterprise setting.
Determining how to characterize vehicle performance has been a life-long passion of mine, even if I didn’t realize it until the second half of my working career. I have multiple examples of long-lasting data collection activities that point me in a certain direction. You must read the story to find out what that is.
When data comes flying at you at nearly the speed of light, you have to have fast processing capabilities for using the data to make effective decisions and predictions. In this article, I present some techniques I use to process large data sets in Alteryx and Tableau to be able to see the truth of what lies within the data.
This is the first of a three part series showing how Tableau, Alteryx and Power BI can be used to perform trend modeling of data. After these three demonstrations are complete, a competition using worldwide data will be completed to see which software platform performs the best on completing this type of work.
We recently made a discovery that allows us to use Alteryx and Tableau with the IBM BigInsights Hadoop platform. This article describes how that happens.
By doing this sequence, you will save yourself a lot of time and grief. Trust me, I’ve had this happen more times than I care to remember.