Alteryx Designer Cookbook: Over 60 recipes to transform your data into insights and take your productivity to a new level

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

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

1. Input data from files
2. Working with databases
3. Data Preparation 
4. Data Transformations
5.  Data Parsing 
6. Grouping Data
7. Blending and Merging data
8. Aggregations
9. Dynamic Operations/ Tools
10. Macros and Apps
11. Downloads, APIs & Web Services
12. Developer options
13. Reporting with Alteryx
14. Outputting Data