Category: Alteryx
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Winners, Losers, and the Trade Game
A visual history of MLB trades and their ripple effects. In every MLB season, team trade activity revolves around one key date — the official trade deadline at the end of July. For those less familiar with baseball, trades serve many purposes beyond just swapping players. Like any professional sport, baseball is a business, and…
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Alteryx: Exploring Joins
The above snapshot shows a simple join in Alteryx along with a description provided by the Alteryx Designer. Joining both datasets (colored in green) shows you that we are going to join both datasets by a certain ‘ON’ criteria of dimensions. Going to the example I discuss in the video, I joined both csv files…
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MLB Run Differential
Using Alteryx Designer, we take a look at our MLB database to build the same run differential measure that was visualized in Tableau. We look at how a simple workflow can be constructed in Alteryx. We also build some simple charts in the designer using the Interactive Chart Tool. Below are the following tools I…
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Getting To Know Alteryx
I just downloaded Alteryx (the trial version)! Let’s snoop around. Above is the layout I get when Alteryx loads. I placed some box call-outs in the screenshot above to discuss. Initial Thoughts I like that when navigating around the tool palate; Alteryx gives you examples of each tool in use. For those that learn more…
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