by Eugene Kutilov | Jul 14, 2022 | Eugene Kutilov
Most of the time an Alteryx workflow starts with an input tool set to ingest some file or stream data from a database. However, sometimes you would want to download a flat file from the Internet, probably from the URL calculated dynamically, to use it as one of the...
by Kieran Adair | Sep 2, 2021 | Kieran Adair
Web scraping (or data scraping) is the process of collecting, transforming and storing content from the internet for later analysis. Think about it like copying and pasting a few paragraphs from a website into Word, but on a bigger scale. As the volume of data stored...
by Kieran Adair | Aug 21, 2021 | Kieran Adair
You might know it best from your stereo, but alongside its streaming service Spotify operates an API that stores a treasure trove of musical metadata. This data is powered by The Echo Nest, an early innovator in the world a music intelligence, which Spotify uses to...
by Andrew Banh | Aug 27, 2020 | Andrew Banh
While working on a project over the last fortnight, I found that sometimes one of the easiest solutions may not be the most complicated. I have developed a fondness to web scraping and API connectors on Alteryx, and while this is a technically advanced solution,...
by Jonathon Cavalieri | Apr 1, 2020 | Alteryx, Jonathon Cavalieri, The Data School
In this blog I will go over Alteryx Weekly Challenge 200, solve a sudoku puzzle from the Wikipedia article. That I also expanded to solving a 1000 different sudoku grids using a Kaggle data set. This type of problem is not one that would typically be solved using...
