by Andrew Lehm | Oct 18, 2018
This post will show you how to create parameters to dynamically alter what is contained within your view, and even to sort by measures that don’t even have to be displayed. I’ve even included a table calculation that will enable you to display units for...
by Andrew Lehm | Oct 16, 2018
A neat alternative to the bullet chart is to create a thermometer chart to measure your progress towards a goal. I’ve created mine from sample data comparing profit to overall sales, but this can be done with any data you like. Step 1: establish your goals...
by Andrew Lehm | Oct 11, 2018
Parsing: in essence, breaking down a structure into its constituent syntactical parts to analyse individually. Today Mina walked us through one of her parsing challenges. Alteryx is a lot easier to tackle when someone is guiding you through so maybe this can be of...
by Andrew Lehm | Oct 9, 2018
Tom and I had our first experience with Alteryx today and our afternoon task was to tidy up some data gleaned from seafood recipes online. You can see how Tom tackled the task of converting the time data from string to numerical here. My task was to split a string of...
by Andrew Lehm | Oct 9, 2018
Having spent my second day at the data school getting introduced to Alteryx (and banging my head against the wall), after two hours we had finally cleaned up some data (on popular seafood recipes) and loaded it into Tableau. You can see how Tom and I prepped the data...
