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Learning Alteryx

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Learning Alteryx

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Overview of this book

Alteryx, as a leading data blending and advanced data analytics platform, has taken self-service data analytics to the next level. Companies worldwide often find themselves struggling to prepare and blend massive datasets that are time-consuming for analysts. Alteryx solves these problems with a repeatable workflow designed to quickly clean, prepare, blend, and join your data in a seamless manner. This book will set you on a self-service data analytics journey that will help you create efficient workflows using Alteryx, without any coding involved. It will empower you and your organization to take well-informed decisions with the help of deeper business insights from the data.Starting with the fundamentals of using Alteryx such as data preparation and blending, you will delve into the more advanced concepts such as performing predictive analytics. You will also learn how to use Alteryx’s features to share the insights gained with the relevant decision makers. To ensure consistency, we will be using data from the Healthcare domain throughout this book. The knowledge you gain from this book will guide you to solve real-life problems related to Business Intelligence confidently. Whether you are a novice with Alteryx or an experienced data analyst keen to explore Alteryx’s self-service analytics features, this book will be the perfect companion for you.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Alteryx

Installation and setup

The Alteryx Designer architecture

Introduction to Alteryx Designer

An overview of the workflow configurations

Exploring the Tool Palettes

The Favorites tools

Summary

Workflow Optimization

Resource optimization and speed processing

Performance Profiling

Connecting to data

Alteryx file types

Summary

Data Preparation and Blending

Data preparation

Data cleansing

Filtering

Join and union

Summary

Writing Fast and Accurate Expressions

Formula

Multi-Row Formula

Multi-Field Formula

Summary

Transforming Data

Transforming data

Summarizing and aggregating data

Running total

Weighted average

Summary

Data Parsing Techniques

Text to columns

Converting strings to dates and dates to strings

Regular expressions

Summary

Creating Data-Driven Custom Reports

Data Table

Charting

Reporting layout

Sharing the report

Summary

Using Macros in Workflows

Standard Macro

Batch Macro

Summary

Sharing Your Insights

Alteryx Server

Alteryx Analytics Gallery

Summary

Best Practices

The ultimate guide to workflow design

Tips and tricks

Summary

Data Preparation and Blending

The processes of data preparation, blending, and joining are the most powerful capabilities of Alteryx. Data analysts have found themselves struggling to get the best results from their data using Microsoft Excel or other legacy tools. With Alteryx, you’ll embark on a journey of self-service data analytics, and build quick and reliable datasets for business decision-making. In this chapter, you will prep and cleanse data from spreadsheets, cloud applications, and other sources. This will be the foundation for an analytic dataset.

The journey will continue in this chapter; you'll tailor data to your needs by filtering and combining data with other sources and joining them together. This chapter will cover the following topics: