Streamline your workflow, transform raw data into actionable insights, and use Alteryx Designer to shape, design, and visualize data
Key Features
- Acquire the skills necessary to perform analytics operations like an expert
- Discover hidden trends and insights in your data from various sources to make accurate predictions
- Reduce the time and effort required to derive insights from your data
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
- Speed up the cleansing, data preparing, and shaping process
- Perform operations and transformations on the data to suit your needs
- Blend different types of data sources for analysis
- Pivot and un-pivot the data for easy manipulation
- Perform aggregations and calculations on the data
- Encapsulate reusable logic into macros
- Develop high-quality, data-driven reports to improve consistency
Who this book is for
This book is for data analysts, data professionals, and business intelligence professionals seeking to harness the full potential of the tool. A basic understanding of Alteryx Designer and Alteryx terminology, including macros, apps, and workflows, is all you need to get started with this book.
Table of Contents
- Input data from files
- Working with databases
- Data Preparation
- Data Transformations
- Data Parsing
- Grouping Data
- Blending and Merging data
- Aggregations
- Dynamic Operations/ Tools
- Macros and Apps
- Downloads, APIs & Web Services
- Developer options
- Reporting with Alteryx
- Outputting Data
Alberto "AJ" Guisande has been an Alteryx ACE since 2015 and is currently C.A.O. at Decision Science, a company dedicated to data-related services. He has held management positions in banking and consulting companies and General Management in logistics and Supply Chain. With more than 10 years of experience in the field of data science, he has helped numerous companies define and adopt an analytical culture, based on the exploitation of their data. He has created Centers of Excellence in numerous companies in Latin and North America. He is an international instructor in Data Science and Big Data for Business at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, and a regular speaker at specialized data science conferences and exhibitions.
