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.…
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…
So I have now completed both the Solution Architect Associate and Developer Associate certifications and thought I would share my thoughts from the process. Why Bother? For a long time, I haven’t been particularly bothered by doing any certifications. I have always believed in proving myself in the work I do, and this was particularly…
This post is the start of a small series around some of the functionality coming in the Alteryx Abacus 1.4 release. While this post doesn’t directly use anything in the add-in, understanding the sequence of evaluation within an Alteryx expression is critical when working with variables (one of the big new features in the next…
At Inspire EU 18, I presented a talk on how to create custom functions for Alteryx. As I described, there are two options available – XML Macro functions and C++ Coded functions. In a previous post, I have gone through creating an XML function. This post will look at creating a very simple function –…
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