I AM … (Agile)

CPD OVERVIEW*
CPD Title Alteryx
Date(s) 2nd Jan’21 – 24th Jan’21
Undertaken
CPD 1000
Weighting
*The above table is not included in the word count.

CPD Rationale and Goals

Alteryx is a platform that makes the entire analytical process a seamless experience, which offers
40+ tools. Operations of using those tools are as easy as drag-and-drop to apply in the predictive-
analytics to the simple and reliable data-sets. It is the only quick-to-implement end-to-end data
analytics platform for your organization that allows data-scientists and analysts alike to solve
business problems faster than you ever thought possible, so they can utilize the tools of predictive-
analytics for robust intuition which includes analysis like regression and modelling like
Autoregressive-Integrated-Moving-Average into the areas such as consumer-&-sales product. Alteryx
have made predictive-analytics more approachable and agile.

As per my previous experience in corporate was related to client-services-&-delight, I do not have

knowledge in analytical-tools. I was keen to study our Predictive-Analytics & Principles of Business-
Analytics modules, as Dr. Pallonetto & Dr. Ojo introduced us to Python, R-Programming, Advanced
Excel & Alteryx and thought us to use it in our Business-Analytics. Big-Data can be done in Alteryx
over R & Python, so I prefer doing it in Alteryx. I have finished learning Alteryx and applied for the
certification course. Also, I have attempted Python and Excel courses online through Udemy and
completed with the certification. My learning and adopting latest technologies making me agile to
achieve my career goals.

Reconstruct the Knowledge:

Alteryx is very useful to resolve the business problems, to view the future predictions and many
more things to see according to the analytical perspective. Alteryx is a American based company
which uses multiple computer software’s. The company has multiple product line which is used for
the data-science and analytical tools. The Alteryx is designed to create latest analytics approachable
to the individuals who works on data. The Alteryx software was released back in 2006 which was
unified spatial and non-spatial data environment for creating analytics tools, processes and
applications. Alteryx was in the Forbes cloud list and it secured 24 th position out of 100. Alteryx is a
language which helps you to fight with the data scientist problems and help resolve the problems
with multiple tools. It helps to Prepare the proper data because many a times the data which we
have is not clean with missing values or null rows or columns, without removing null data you cannot
get the proper output. It helps to design the data to get the perfect output without any problems
and get the preferred outcome by using machine learning tools such as Decision Tree, Linear
Regression, Logistic Regression, SVM, Naïve Bayes, kNN and Random Forest. Explore the data and
get the perfect missing values and connect with the models to get the predictive output with the
best accuracy. The data has to be scaled to drive the culture that defines and shape the future
predictions. There is never a limit in the data which has to be performed on the software but can
vary with the time to get the out with high configuration systems. I have been agile by working on
Alteryx and learning the software languages so as to help me in my future run. I am also in the
process to explore the Alteryx tool more deeply to work on major data to get the best outputs and
resolving the problems in the business. Alteryx is one of the greatest platform which helps to
enables us to automate the future with all the types of data like Marketing Data, Accounting Data,
CRM Data, Operational Data and Financial Data which can be connected all together to portray the
perfect picture to everybody who all want to improve our business strategies, building business
plans and get the profitable output to the organization to help get the better tomorrow. I have also
taken multiple technologies into my account to adopt the knowledge and understand the business
problems more widely.

Reconstruct the Self:

The major impact on being able to be agile for my career aspirations has came to a next
stage as I have learnt and adopted multiple technology which I was unaware about as per
my past knowledge. I have learnt to be agile to achieve my future goals and helped myself
to push and understand to get out of my comfort zone and be in a complete different level
where I need to be more energetically active towards my learning goals to reach towards
my goals.
I have taken courses which I need to learn to apply in my Masters program courses like
Alteryx, Python, R Programming & Advanced Excel out of which I have completed learning 3
languages thoroughly through Alteryx community and Udemy platform. While learning and
taking the course online I saw myself very agile to learn and to be well known to the specific
courses so as to be agile and approachable in my career. I have completed the certification
course for all 3 out of which I was not able to pass the Alteryx test but I will keep on trying
so as to achieve the required score as I have just learnt the complete language and also I
have a result of 28.2% which is not enough to pass but I think I will progress and finish the
certification course as I will deep dive into the topic again. I have achieved my basic/initial
goal to being agile in my career and I hope, I progress with the same pace to achieve my all
career goals the same way I have completed this technology goals to portray my experience
and resolving multiple confusion for myself. Learning technology is a necessity in todays
date as people expects to see the skills in you apart from your study background. The firms
or the organizations do expect a candidate with the degree but with a complete package full
of skills that can handle multiple technologies to work on their business model. They expect
an agile individual who is keen to learn the new processes and with the basic knowledge of
being approachable which has gave me more inspiration to be agile and select my career
according to my knowledge as well as skills. I am excelling myself more into the technology
to be more skilful and grow myself into and excellent individual.
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Evidence of CPD completion

 Alteryx Design Test Result