I have been using Data.World since the start of my data analytics career back in 2015, mainly inspired by #MakeoverMonday , who share their datasets for their weekly community project on it.
Over time I gathered, created and build data sets, workflow logic and other data related items and put them on data.world to support blogs, videos etc.
Curious about who has accessed the data recently, I ran into a problem where data.world doesn't any systematic access to underlying usage data through APIs or the likes but they do send you notifications every time someone follows your or bookmarks your data!
In comes Alteryx, processing the notification page data.
Whilst the raw website data (html format) doesn't look pretty, Alteryx makes it easy to parse out the data as html tags are typically well structured.
I won't go into the details of the parsing of this data as there are many blogs on our thedataschool website, so instead I'll show of some of the reporting tools that allow us to generate html formatted charts to be put on any website or blog if they allow html snippers to be added.
We can use a range of summarized snapshots of our data to feed into the interactive charting tools and table tools to create reporting 'snippets'. Bunch them up together with layout tools to combine multiple snippets horizontally and vertically.
Once you are happy with your reporting snippets you can use the render tool to output it into a format of your choosing.
A range of files types are available; pdf, (m)html, image, word, excel, rtf, PowerPoint and the Alteryx composer file.
The html file type can typically be opened by an browser such as google chrome but also allow you to insert it into blogs that allow for custom html to be added (we use Ghost which allows for raw html cards) or websites in general.
Checkout the interactive report below!
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Data.World Bookmark & Follower Report
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So what did Alteryx write in the background for us? A whole bunch of structured html with javascript and css embedded into it!
Luckily for us, we don't even have to write any piece of code in order to get there, to give you an idea I've put a small sample of it below for you to see the nice wrapped up piece of code.
