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Alteryx Designer: Getting Started

by Michael Barone

Looking to significantly shorten your time from raw data to actionable knowledge and insight? Learn to use Alteryx, a user-friendly, code-free solution that allows you to spend your time analyzing your data instead of gathering your data.

What you'll learn

When working with data to gain insightful, actionable knowledge, it has long been known that the lion’s share of the process lies within data extraction and preparation. Alteryx can re-balance that scale, leaving you significantly more time to realize value from your data. In this course, Alteryx Designer: Getting Started, you will gain the ability to work efficiently within the Alteryx Designer platform. First, you will learn to move and navigate around the user interface. Next, you will discover how to read in data from virtually any data source, and filter/blend/manipulate the data in order to gain that all-important actionable knowledge. Finally, you will explore how to visualize your data in a distribution ready report, and deploy that report to any number of recipients, all in one place - Alteryx Designer. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Alteryx Designer needed to create your own repeatable workflows. Software required: Alteryx Designer version 2018.3 or higher (course utilizes version 2018.4).

About the author

Earned B.A. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Geneseo. While working on his M.S. at the Rochester Institute of Technology, served as an adjunct professor at Finger Lakes Community College (Canandaigua, NY) teaching Statistics. Has been with Paychex for over 20 years and has served as a Senior Payroll Specialist, Senior Payroll Tax Compliance Analyst, and for the past 11 years he has worked as a Data Scientist in the Data Science & Predictive Analytics group.

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