Using public data can help improve the quality of your data analysis. It allows you to fill in any gaps in your data or to create more insights into your company’s data. We’ll show you how to go about getting data from a public source, and in particular how to integrate public data with our […]
Integrating public data into your analysis can provide powerful insights. However this task rarely comes easily, as public data tends to come in an awkward format or a different format to the one you prefer to work with. We’ll show you how to do this in 3 steps Download a dataset on commuting patterns from […]
In a previous post, we gave a general guide on how you can import files into Alteryx. In this post, we’ll look specifically at Excel files.
By now, almost every business around has figured out that data and analytics represent a big opportunity to generate compelling insights into the company, and thereby improve outcomes. However, some businesses put themselves at risk when they fail to ask where that data should come from.
A lot of your work with Alteryx will involve using and manipulating a wide variety of data sources. One of the strengths of Alteryx is that you can import data from many different sources into it, from databases to Excel files and many more.
An absolutely critical stage in calculating a Leveraged Buyout model is to measure the returns achieved by the investor. In this post we’ll measure the return achieved by a private equity company, PrivEq, in their leveraged buyout of another company, MarkerCo. We’ll calculate several common metrics for evaluating returns, and we’ll also identify the source […]
For many years, Excel has been the most widely used data analysis software for most businesses. However, in recent years, you may have become aware of Power BI, which is another newer Microsoft product. You might feel that Microsoft is nudging people towards Power BI and wondering is it right for you. In this post […]
In a previous post, we saw how the Join tool in Alteryx merges two tables into one. However, maybe you want to combine all the data from one of the input tables with the data in the inner join. An outer join lets you do this.
Tableau and Power BI are probably the two best-known products when it comes to self-service business intelligence and visualization tools. Although there are many similarities between the two products, there are also a number of differences. Deciding which is the right product is not easy, and it’ll depend on the situation you find yourself in. […]
We all know how important data is becoming to modern businesses. The amount of data floating around in modern companies is such that a wide range of insights can be gained just by analyzing the data present within your company. However, what you could more easily overlook is the value of external, public data to […]
Joining tables together is a common task in Alteryx. In this post, we’ll discuss how to combine tables horizontally using the Join tool. The Join tool is used to combine tables which are linked by a common field. It is slightly more complex than the Union tool that we saw in a previous post, but […]
In most countries, increasing quantities of public data are being made available, particularly by public organisations. This data can be useful to many businesses, as it can be combined with your own information to improve the quality of your analytics. This post will identify a few of the most useful public data sources fro businesses.
