by Varun Varma | Jul 7, 2019 | Varun Varma
There can be many use cases for applying dashboard filter on a Worksheet, but this blog illustrates how we can achieve the effect on the below picture. The dashboard in the picture above shows the overall sales by each subcategory. Upon clicking on any of the bars,...
by Varun Varma | Jun 23, 2019 | Varun Varma
In this blog I share details on how I used blob convert tool to convert blob data type to string data type. When working on one of our client projects, one of the tasks we were given was to analyse and create dashboards on Alteryx scheduler data. So, the files we were...
by Varun Varma | Jun 2, 2019 | Varun Varma
We can notice that, when more than 6 fields are placed in columns or rows, by default, the first two fields are concatenated by a comma. (in the above picture, fields ‘Region’ and ‘Country’ got concatenated) To avoid this, select Analysis >...
by Varun Varma | May 19, 2019 | Varun Varma
For this example, the data source used is Sample – Superstore data. Creating the tableau dashboard below is broken down in to 4 main steps: 1 Creating the source sheet 2 Create the target sheet 3 Create dashboard and assign set 4 Add dashboard actions (click on the...
by Varun Varma | May 4, 2019 | Varun Varma
On Week 3 of our training, we were introduced to API’s. So, in this blog I will demonstrate how I used Alteryx to extract data from an API. The data covered in this blog is the list of Asteroids based on their closest approach date to Earth, from NASA’s website....
by Varun Varma | Apr 21, 2019 | Varun Varma
Alteryx began as a mapping and reporting tool. So, undoubtedly there are numerous spatial functions and tools within Alteryx. However, in this blog, I will demonstrate how I used Alteryx to solve one use case. My objective was to find the percentage of locations that...
