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This article is by Timothy Lam and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science-Blog/Observations-on-the-Citizen-Data-Scientist/ba-p/472029

After enriching our supervised learning palette, folks asked: How about an unsupervised technique like clustering or dimension reduction?

Indeed, a common data science statistic is that 80% of our work is data preparation; one of our common tasks is to group the data points into various clusters with similar properties and characteristics.

This article is by David Hare and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/Presto-will-it-Alteryx/ba-p/420935

I'll start this series with Presto, a technology that many customers have been asking about recently.

This article is by Michael F and originally appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/An-Introduction-to-Troubleshooting-Alteryx-Server/ba-p/401682

When Alteryx Server returns an error message, there are many log files that can be used to help identify the cause of the error.

This article is by Ian W and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/Evaluating-Designer-For-Your-Workflow/ba-p/404460

It’s no secret that Designer users are also Designer fans.

This article is by c2willis and originally appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/BUILD2-Learning-to-Pilot-the-SnakePlane/ba-p/436434

Ideas are important
It’s important to be prepared; ask any scout! I am an avid reader of the Community forums, and one particular idea piqued my interest.

This article is by Sydney Firmin and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science-Blog/Embedding-a-Model-in-a-Workflow-with-a-Python-Tool/ba-p/436204

Why Use Alteryx to Share Python or R Models?
If you’ve trained and serialized a Python model, you might be wondering why not just send out a Python script with the model that creates predictions, and let them run that?

This is totally a reasonable approach, but there are a few things you will need to consider.

This article is by David Ha and originally appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/Web-Scraping-will-it-Alteryx/ba-p/429475

Will it Alteryx?
Starting your web scraping journey with BeautifulSoup and the Python tool takes no time at all.

This article is by Sydney Firmin and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science-Blog/Free-Resources-for-Learning-Data-Science/ba-p/354182

 
Courses in Mathematics, Machine Learning, Programming, and Data Science
Having a solid foundation in mathematics and computer science will only make you a stronger analyst and data scientist.

This article is by Sydney Firmin and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science-Blog/Creative-AI-What-the-Field-of-AI-Artwork-Can-Teach-Us-About-Deep/ba-p/368988

On October 25th, 2018 the British auction house Christie’s auctioned a piece of artwork created using artificial intelligence.

This article is by Timothy Lam and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science-Blog/Expand-Your-Predictive-Palette-XGBoost-in-Alteryx/ba-p/404262

In 2017, Randal S. Olson published a paper using 13 state-of-the art algorithms on 157 datasets.