Some members of the team building Enso decided to try and tackle last year’s Advent of Code using the language and see how far we could get. I’ve previously tried solving Advent of Code in Alteryx and was personally interested to know whether it is easier or more challenging with what we are building. For…
It’s the end of the Advent of Code for 2020. The last week was tough – the part 1s were fairly easily doable, but part 2s often were a lot harder. In the end, I managed to solve all of this week but 1 in BaseA Alteryx. For the one I couldn’t, I used BaseA…
So week 1 and week 2 were both possible in BaseA Alteryx, although getting harder as the puzzles progress. Week 3 was the first time I needed to go beyond BaseA to find a solution for a couple of the parts (though in at least one case the community found a BaseA solution). As with…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
This post first appeared on the Alteryx Community The Abacus add in is a collection of custom functions that make writing expressions in Alteryx easier or gives completely new functionality (such as variables). Originally created to make my life easier, they have grown into a powerful extension for Alteryx that can speed up the creation…
So, I have far too many recipe cards… Over the years, I have collected (read hoarded) hundreds of recipe cards from trips to the supermarket. I’ve generally kept them in folders so I can find them when I want but I want to do better. I’d love to be able to search for them, find…
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