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Alteryx was my first step into analytics and it helped me get 2 heads funded for my team. But yeah at some point I arrived to your same conclusion and moved my
by kfk 6y ago
Alteryx was my first step into analytics and it helped me get 2 heads funded for my team. But yeah at some point I arrived to your same conclusion and moved my team to python, we never looked back. One thing people don’t realize with these UI tools is that there is no way to use a version control system and I nowadays I cannot think of doing any analytics (including basic BI) without git.
- hermitcrab 6y agoWhy can't you version them? Do they all use binary formats?
- kfk 6y agoAlteryx files are xml files but the point is change management is hard to do. You need to compare each single element in the UI to understand what was changed between versions. It's a lot like Excel in that regard.
- hermitcrab 6y agoI guess diff'ing 2 xml files isn't ideal to see what changed. Do you have a better solution in mind?
- ZeroCool2u 6y agoTechnically, you can diff 2 XML files, but Alteryx will make slight alterations to the xml literally everytime you open it, even if you make no changes and it's a huge amount of spaghetti XML that is absolutely not meant to be parsed by human eyes.
- hermitcrab 6y agoThanks for the clarification.
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