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Creating an Analytical Dataset

Course

Learn how to prepare data to ensure the efficacy of your analysis while improving fluency in Alteryx.

Last Updated March 7, 2022

Prerequisites:

No experience required

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Understanding Data

Understand the most common data types. Understand the various sources of data.

Lesson 2

Data Issues

Identify common types of dirty data. Make adjustments to dirty data to prepare a dataset. Identify and adjust for outliers.

Lesson 3

Data Formatting

Summarize, cross-tabulate, transpose, and reformat data to prepare a dataset for analysis.

Lesson 4

Data Blending

Join and union data from different sources and formats.

Taught By The Best

Maureen Wolfson

Instructor

Maureen Wolfson is a Solution Engineer at Alteryx, Inc. She has more than 20 years of data analysis expertise specializing in data, customer and geospatial analysis.

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