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
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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