About

The Blog

The Adventures in Advanced Analytics blog is focused on topics in predictive and spatial analytics technologies that impact business organizations. A particular area of focus is on R, Spark, and emerging storage technologies such as Hadoop and Cassandra, and how they can be enhanced via the Alteryx platform.

The blog is created using the Hugo static site generator, and uses Andrei Mihu’s Hyde-X theme. The site logo was created by Tara McCoy Giovenco (many thanks Tara), who maintains the copyright, and is used with her permission.

All opinions expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Alteryx, Inc., its employees, or its partners.

The Author

Dan Putler is Alteryx’s Chief Scientist, and leads product strategy and development for Alteryx’s R-based predictive analytics offering. He is also the co-author (with Robert Krider) of the book Customer and Business Analytics: Applied Data Mining for Business Decision Making Using R, and has 30 years of experience with predictive analytics, conducting projects across a wide range of industry verticals. Prior to joining Alteryx, Dan spent 20 years as a professor of marketing and marketing research at both the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia and the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.