So week 1 was well suited to Alteryx, let’s see how week 2 unfolded! A nice and gentle Sunday puzzle lulled me into the belief that it was going to be an easy week, followed by the first needed use of an iterative macro, and then something that looked far too much like the dreaded…
So it’s December and time again for the annual Advent of Code. For those not familiar, this is a set of 25 puzzles (each with 2 parts) set by Eric Wastl. They have a Christmas theme and story and are solvable with just a little programming knowledge and some puzzle-solving skills. The puzzles start quite…
In this blog, I look at a few different ways to recreate the Mandelbrot set within Alteryx using just the BaseA tools. Along the way taking a look at pros and cons of each approach and the performance of the new AMP engine.
As a bit of a thought experiment, I wondered if how hard it would be to create a cubic spline interpolation within Alteryx. As with many of my games BaseA rules apply. Stealing an idea from Tasha Alfano, I thought I would do it in both python and Alteryx from first principles. A quick shout…
Matt Parker is publishing a weekly puzzle on his Think Maths website every Wednesday. This week’s puzzle was a Coin Puzzle. This puzzle felt like one that Alteryx would be well suited to solving. Representing the Board’s State The board looks like: Each location can either have a coin or not have a coin. This…
So the lights are up across London, the weather is atrocious and the trains are going nowhere fast; so it must be time to think about the Advent of Code. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, this is a fantastic set of 25 puzzles released one by one every day in December…
So mostly for entertainment sake and to see how easy it would be, I wondered if I could create a Python-based lambda in AWS using GitHub and Visual Studio Online. So, let’s see how this goes and how long it takes … Pre-Requisites For this little experiment, you will need: A GitHub account An Azure…
So forever ago (well back in January), I wrote a post on creating a .Net Core lambda. The goal I want to produce is a tool to record and help me track everything I need for looking after me as a diabetic. This post is going to be a personal one telling you about my…
This post also appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog. A friend on the Alteryx community recently asked me about recreating the Excel trendline capabilities within Alteryx. If you have the predictive tools installed then Alteryx has a Linear Regression tool which will fit a linear model to the set. This uses R and produces…
A group of my colleagues from Scott Logic and I went to the AWS Global Summit at the ExCel centre this week. It is the biggest of the global summits, and gives a taste of the huge re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. This post is my thoughts from my day and the sessions I attended.…
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