Learning Alteryx : a beginner's guide to using Alteryx for self-service analytics and business intelligence / Renato Baruti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baruti, Renato, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Implement your Business Intelligence solutions without any coding - by leveraging the power of the Alteryx platform About This Book Experience the power of codeless analytics using Alteryx, a leading Business Intelligence tool Uncover hidden trends and valuable insights from your data across different sources and make accurate predictions Includes real-world examples to put your understanding of the features in Alteryx to practical use Who This Book Is For This book is for aspiring data professionals who want to learn and implement self-service analytics from scratch, without any coding. Those who have some experience with Alteryx and want to gain more proficiency will also find this book to be useful. A basic understanding of the data science concepts is all you need to get started with this book. What You Will Learn Create efficient workflows with Alteryx to answer complex business questions Learn how to speed up the cleansing, data preparing, and shaping process Blend and join data into a single dataset for self-service analysis Write advanced expressions in Alteryx leading to an optimal workflow for efficient processing of huge data Develop high-quality, data-driven reports to improve consistency in reporting and analysis Explore the flexibility of macros by automating analytic processes Apply predictive analytics from spatial, demographic, and behavioral analysis and quickly publish, schedule Share your workflows and insights with relevant stakeholders In Detail Alteryx, as a leading data blending and advanced data analytics platform, has taken self-service data analytics to the next level. Companies worldwide often find themselves struggling to prepare and blend massive datasets that are time-consuming for analysts. Alteryx solves these problems with a repeatable workflow designed to quickly clean, prepare, blend, and join your data in a seamless manner. This book will set you on a self-service data analytics journey that will help you create efficient workflows using Alteryx, without any coding involved. It will empower you and your organization to take well-informed decisions with the help of deeper business insights from the data.Starting with the fundamentals of using Alteryx such as data preparation and blending, you will delve into the more advanced concepts such as performing predictive analytics. You will also learn how to use Alteryx's features to share the insights gained with the relevant decision makers. To ensure consistency...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Alteryx

Installation and setup

The Alteryx Designer architecture

Introduction to Alteryx Designer

An overview of the workflow configurations

Exploring the Tool Palettes

The Favorites tools

Summary

Chapter 2: Workflow Optimization

Resource optimization and speed processing

Resource optimization

Resource optimization best practices

Speed processing

Performance Profiling

Connecting to data

Input Data

Text Input

Map Input

Connect In-DB

Alteryx file types

Chapter 3: Data Preparation and Blending

Data preparation

Data cleansing

Filtering

Join and union

Join

Join multiple

Union

Chapter 4: Writing Fast and Accurate Expressions

Formula

Multi-Row Formula

Multi-Field Formula

Chapter 5: Transforming Data

Transforming data

Summarizing and aggregating data

Running total

Weighted average

Chapter 6: Data Parsing Techniques

Text to columns

Converting strings to dates and dates to strings

Regular expressions

Chapter 7: Creating Data-Driven Custom Reports

Data Table

Charting

Reporting layout

Sharing the report

Chapter 8: Using Macros in Workflows

Standard Macro

Batch Macro

Chapter 9: Sharing Your Insights

Alteryx Server

Enterprise scalability

Ultimate flexibility and scalability

Scheduling and automating workflow execution to deliver data whenever and wherever you want

Sharing and collaboration

Analytic governance

Alteryx Analytics Gallery

Chapter 10 : Best Practices

The ultimate guide to workflow design

Workflow layout.

Autosave workflows

Data profile information

Explorer box

Tips and tricks

Browse data

Data organization

Tool alignment

Time savers

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 5, 2018).

OCLC:

1021887816