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Learning Alteryx

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Learning Alteryx

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Multi-Row Formula


You went through some great use cases for the Formula tool, and are now probably wondering how you can update multiple rows based on an expression. The Multi-Row Formula tool accomplishes just that by writing expressions to references preceding and/or following rows. This can be done by creating a new field or modifying existing fields.

In this section, we will use the same workflow from the last section; the U.S. Chronic Disease Indicators workflow. Let's go through a couple of expressions to understand how helpful the Multi-Row Formula is.

Expression #1: Update the existing field DatavalueFootnote where, if the current row is null, then fill in the null with the previous row using the same field.

Step 1: Select the Multi-Row Formula tool from the Preparation tool palette and drag it onto the canvas. Connect the Multi-Row Formula tool to the Formula tool.

Step 2: Select Update Existing Field, and from the dropdown select DatavalueFootnote.

Step 3: Write the following expression...