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Instructor: Thomas Luthi-Bhatti
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Intermediate level
Familiarity with Alteryx and data manipulation principles: inputting and outputting data, unions & joins, filtering, create fields and edit data.
Recommended experience
Intermediate level
Familiarity with Alteryx and data manipulation principles: inputting and outputting data, unions & joins, filtering, create fields and edit data.
Interrogate input data and ensure that it is consistent and complete.
Compare your workflow output to its input and create data loss warnings.
Structure data flow to create dynamic workflows.
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February 2025
Only available on desktop
Tired of spending hours looking for that one pesky bug that keeps messing up your results? This hands-on Alteryx course teaches you to audit and validate you data input and workflows, to get confidence in you output.
You will learn to check input data files for potential errors, detect data loss when combining data streams, and maintain data integrity through joins and aggregations. The course also covers ways to output data into multiple Excel tabs and add custom messages to guide future users of your workflows. By the end, you will be able to add steps to your workflows to minimise errors, ensure consistency and improve the user experience for your colleagues. By taking on the role of somebody tasked with collecting survey results data, you will learn to validate data sources, join and test data streams, keep numeric fields consistent, write data to multi-tab Excel files and implement custom alerts for better workflow management. Learners should already have an understanding of the basic functions in Alteryx such as inputting/outputting data, using joins/unions, and manipulating data with filters, select or formula tools.
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Task 1: Set up the project and validate input files
Task 2: Use tests to detect data loss in joins
Task 3: Create dyanmic workflows with detour
Practice Activity
Task 4: Structure data flow
Task 5: Add workflow messages for future users
Cumulative Challenge
Familiarity with Alteryx and data manipulation principles: inputting and outputting data, unions & joins, filtering, create fields and edit data.
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