The View from the Lakehouse Blog Series PART 1 Recently, Lovelytics held our first in-person all-hands meeting in more than a year. We gathered at our headquarters in Arlington, VA to socialize, strategize, and evaluate past decisions. A major theme this year...
Most of us are inevitably going to be asked one of the most common questions this time of year: “What are you thankful for?” Of course, I am grateful for my husband, my maniac of a dog, my family, and the food I’m fortunate enough to have on the table every day....
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...
