My oldest daughter recently received a Scramble Squares puzzle. If you are not familiar, it is a puzzle of 9 cards you are supposed to arrange in a 3x3 grid to form a continuous picture. It is also one of the most evil things you can gift to someone else. …

I was talking recently with a fellow analytics expert I know from my ACL days. The question came up: does Alteryx have a function to calculate the dice coefficient between two text values? It was a great question, because while Alteryx has several fuzzy matching algorithms, dice coefficient is not…

It has been almost seven months since I announced the alpha of goalteryx, the unoffical Go SDK for building custom Alteryx tools. Now with v0.5.6 it is time to go beta. There have been a lot of changes and some new features I am excited to announce! But first… What is goalteryx? I…

“Code free…for amateurs” Thus began my relationship with Alteryx. It’s a fair reaction to call my attitude snobbish. Yet, my reaction to Alteryx was as much defensive as it was driven by pride in my ability to code: my department decided to quit our script-based tool cold turkey and I…

Who else was excited when the technical preview for Flutter for web was announced? I know I was! Flutter is by far my favorite UI framework. But until the announcement it was limited to building cross-platform mobile apps (which, come one, is already pretty great). With it’s newfound ability to…

There are many topics regarding Alteryx, data analytics, and coding which are fun and compelling to talk about. Topics which force you to think, give you ‘aha!’ moments, or make you glad you chose this line of work to define your contribution to society. This is not one of them. …

We were made for each other. Literally. Every essence of our beings was intertwined. Like cookies and milk, unicorns and rainbows…pigs and mud? Completely complementary, we didn’t mirror each other, but rather we made each other complete, fit to serve a grander purpose than ourselves. Which made reality all the…

What’s faster than an integer? Certainly not text strings; those things are slow. String comparison usually involves some sort of loop to compare the individual characters of one string to another. Integers? Those can be compared right in the CPU registers at the hardware level, no looping required. …

Hey, it’s me again. No, I haven’t disappeared. Q3 was…quite a quarter. I code as a hobby, so I ramp my activity up and down based on how much free time I have. You know what takes a lot of time? Work. Work takes a lot of time, especially when…