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> As someone who has personally had to use Alteryx in multiple projects, fuck Alteryx. What an absolute garbage piece of software.
I've already written a rant about it before and I don't have the energy to repeat myself, but do not fool yourself into thinking switching from excel to Alteryx is doing yourself any favors. You're just trading one monster for another.
Save yourself a huge amount of money, not to mention your sanity and just take the time to learn some Python, Julia, literally anything else to get the same results faster, more reliably, and not be locked into that noveau Oracle-esque nightmare.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791017