Using the Blob Tools to Output Data into Formatted Excel Templates While “the Blob” might sound like a cheesy horror movie or an unidentified substance you scrape off the bottom of your shoe, in Alteryx it can be a very powerful tool. “Blob” is an acronym for...
I’ve always found web scraping interesting, there’s a massive trove of data available to us in a wide array of formats- it presents the perfect ‘big data’ problem, how can we capture, ingest, analyze, and leverage this data? To keep things relevant for a broader...
Have you ever added a formula tool to your Alteryx workflow and suddenly realized that your IF/THEN logic is starting to look more like a book and less like a logical function? Or maybe you really miss the ability to simply reference a prior row’s result within an...
Synopsis: This article is a 101 level introduction to Databricks SQL, and will walk you through the steps to build simple visualizations directly within a Lakehouse environment. The article is focused around the UI and workflow of DBSQL and assumes the reader has...
Welcome to Part 2 of the series comparing one “static” dimensional value against another “dynamic” value of the same dimension. In this section, we are going to focus on making your visualization easy to consume, or in other words, “Making It Cute”. In...
