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Alteryx Designer Cookbook

Alteryx Designer Cookbook

By : Alberto Guisande
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Alteryx Designer Cookbook

Alteryx Designer Cookbook

4.9 (10)
By: Alberto Guisande

Overview of this book

Alteryx allows you to create data manipulation and analytic workflows with a simple, easy-to-use, code-free UI, and perform fast-executing workflows, offering multiple ways to achieve the same results. The Alteryx Designer Cookbook is a comprehensive guide to maximizing your Alteryx skills and determining the best ways to perform data operations This book's recipes will guide you through an analyst's complete journey, covering all aspects of the data life cycle. The first set of chapters will teach you how to read data from various sources to obtain reports and pass it through the required adjustment operations for analysis. After an explanation of the Alteryx platform components with a particular focus on Alteryx Designer, you’ll be taken on a tour of what and how you can accomplish by using this tool. Along the way, you’ll learn best practices and design patterns. The book also covers real-world examples to help you apply your understanding of the features in Alteryx to practical scenarios By the end of this book, you’ll have enhanced your proficiency with Alteryx Designer and an improved ability to execute tasks within the tool efficiently
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Loading images for reports dynamically

Including images in our reports can enhance their visual appeal and, simultaneously, help our audience to better understand what we are trying to convey. When you’re processing batch reports – say, for different clients – you’ve probably come across the need to incorporate the logos of those companies into a corresponding report. Doing this manually would be time-consuming, so we will use Alteryx’s capabilities to automatically achieve these customized reports in this recipe.

In the previous chapter, we learned how to read binary fields and/or files using Blobs. In the case of images, Alteryx has a specialized tool that allows us to read JPG, PNG, and GIF files from the hard drive, or a shared directory on the network.

Getting ready

We have a test set ready for you to follow along with this recipe here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Alteryx-Designer-Cookbook.

We will start with a dataset, which...

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