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.
publication date
2023-10-31
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
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
approach
Through these recipes, you’ll devise mechanisms to rely on in different situations that you’ll encounter throughout your analytics journey, which begins with the reading/downloading data phase, blending it to enrich and clean, transforming the data to perform calculations/aggregations, formatting and saving your results
audience
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.
short description
Alteryx Designer Cookbook is a comprehensive guide with a collection of practical and easy-to-follow recipes for a wide range of topics in Alteryx Designer, including data cleansing, and data blending. It is designed to help you implement these techniques in your projects and gain insights from your data quickly and efficiently
subtitle
Over 60 recipes to transform your data into insights and take your productivity to a new level
keywords
Data analysis, Qualitative data analysis, Data analysis books
Product ISBN
9781804615089
