Implementing spatial analytics with Alteryx

Spatial analysis is about taking the geographic location of something and finding patterns related to its geographic location. In Alteryx, you can perform a spatial analysis by leveraging the Spatial Tool Pallet and creating a spatial object. To achieve spatial analysis using spatial tools, you need to create a spatial object. The essential spatial object type is a spatial point.

Creating a spatial point

The primary way of creating a spatial point is by using the Create Points tool. This tool will take two coordinate fields to assign one to the X coordinate point and the other to the Y coordinate point. For example, the following screenshot shows the configuration:

Figure 8.2 – Configuration of the Create Points tool

We will be using the HousingPricesTestData.yxdb dataset, which contains long and lat fields. The long field contains longitude information (step 1 in the screenshot), while the lat field...