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This article is by ksongin and originally appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/Should-I-Stay-or-Should-I-Go/ba-p/597107

With working from home - WFH - becoming the new normal, I’m constantly asking myself why I decided to live in a four floor walk up with no A/C and a tiny balcony, when I could be a lot more comfortable with more space (and A/C). Since I no longer have to worry about the commute, I can look a little bit out of the city centre.

This article was written by rclerx and originally appeared on the Alteryx Analytics Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Analytics-Blog/Automation-Meets-Intelligence-with-the-Alteryx-Analytics-Hub/ba-p/574799

It’s our pleasure to announce the release of Alteryx Analytics Hub.

This article is by David Ha and originally appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/Splunk-will-it-Alteryx/ba-p/554043#

 
What is Splunk?
Although Splunk has expanded to many software products, in this blog we will focus on Splunk's core product offering, which is a technology for collecting and analyzing machine generated data.

This article is by Mat Budden and originally appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/Hey-Alteryx-Turn-On-the-Light-Actually-Why-Don-t-You-Just/ba-p/555041#

In a recent conversation with my Alteryx Account Executive, we were discussing things you could do with Alteryx, and to be fair, the list is enormous.

This article is by Kenda Barnes and originally appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/This-Feature-That-You-Didn-t-Know-About-Will-Change-Your-Life/ba-p/548446#

When you open Alteryx Designer, the default layout direction on the canvas is horizontal.

This article is by Robert Lenius and originally appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/Tax-Reporting-From-ERP-To-Inbox/ba-p/547167#

With tax requirements constantly changing there can come a need to have ERP data or alerts automatically come into your mailbox, eliminating the need to manually pull and check this information on a routine basis.

This article is by Susan CS and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science-Blog/Repairing-Broken-Models-or-Not-During-a-Pandemic/ba-p/558570

What do you do when you have an amazing, even award-winning, model based on years of work that is suddenly wrecked by a global pandemic?

Sound familiar?

Well, if you’re with the Delphi research group at Carnegie Mellon University, you pick yourself up and move on to think creatively about the next big problem.

This article is by Ben Moss and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science-Blog/Alteryx-Your-Discover-Weekly-A-Practical-Application-of-K/ba-p/564059

 
Carly Rae Jepsen or Napalm Death
So, let’s review how we can apply KNN in Alteryx in order to allow us to determine whether a track is by either pop artist Carly Rae Jepsen or grindcore band Napalm Death.

This article is by Ben Moss and originally appeared on the Alteryx Data Science Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Data-Science-Blog/Alteryx-Your-Discover-Weekly-A-Practical-Application-of-K/ba-p/563359

What Is K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN)? 
The Wikipedia definition is:
In pattern recognition, the k-nearest neighbors algorithm (k-NN) is a non-parametric method used for classification and regression.

This article is by Robert Lenius and originally appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog here: https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works-Blog/Verifying-Tax-IDs-With-REGEX/ba-p/529729

Have you ever found yourself putting data into some online application only to have it fire back that the format is incorrect? This could be things like a phone number, address, or in the bad example on the right, a name .

Typically, this is done through regular expressions, also known as REGEX functions.