When responding to a disaster or when evaluating risks to prepare for the next one, you need really good data, or more specifically, actionable insights that will empower your first responders, recovery teams, leaders, and the public with the situational awareness and predictive foresight to speed up recovery, mitigate risks, and optimize preparation and response. When dual hurricanes hit Puerto Rico in 2017, Atkins and Alteryx Partner used th...

Law enforcement departments have always relied on data to keep the public safe and informed. Yet traditional forms of collecting information are slow, outdated, and hard to compile. For the Chicago Police Department (CPD), the second largest police department in the United States, they leveraged data analytics to deploy resources across the city, conduct crime analysis for strategic planning, join disparate data across the organization for new...

In any analytic process for the public sector, you need to start with a question. Who is our target for service delivery? Where are we at risk for missing revenue projections, or even how does the baseball schedule affect crime rates? Interested in seeing how an advanced self-service analytics platform can help you get to the answers for these questions and more? Join us for a demo on self-service analytics from Alteryx. This month, we're goin...

In any analytic process for the public sector, you need to start with a question. Who is our target for service delivery? Where are we at risk for missing revenue projections, or even how does the baseball schedule affect crime rates?Interested in seeing how an advanced self-service analytics platform can help you get to the answers for these questions and more? Join us for a demo on self-service analytics from Alteryx.This month, we're going...

Agent Orange, an herbicide used during the Vietnam war, is now classified as a human carcinogen. It enters the body through physical contact or indigestion. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) assumes that certain diseases can be related to a veteran's qualifying military service, which VA calls "presumptive diseases". The Agent Orange Act of 1991 allows for coverage for anyone serving in the Republic of Vietnam, including "Blue Water" vet...