Cloud Quest #2: Consumer Purchase Aggregation

[AYXAcademy]

Hi Maveryx,

Thanks for submitting your solutions for our first official Cloud Quest! In the video solution we posted, Alteryx Chief Evangelist, Joshua Burkhow (@joshuaburkhow) will guide you through the workflow (scroll down the page to locate the video).

Thank you, Josh, for the exceptional guidance!

For this week’s quest, you are taking on the role of a restaurant manager. You want to review customer purchase behavior to decide whether your restaurant should offer a meal deal that would add a side and drink to a pizza or burger purchase. To make this decision, you need to study recent transactions to determine the potential impact it could have.

The Point of Sale dataset includes the ticket-level information, and the two lookup tables categorize items into higher-level food types.

Your task is to determine the percentage of orders since July 1, 2013, that include the Food category (Pizza or Burger) paired with a Side AND Drink. To accomplish this, you need to determine the total number of orders placed within the specified timeframe and identify those that meet the criteria for the potential meal deal you are considering for your menu.

Hint 1: Remember to combine the dataset with the lookup tables and filter by date.

Hint 2: Remember to account for dates after June 30, 2013 to include July 1, 2013 in the output.

Your final result should look like the following image:

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Hint: A combination of Join, Filter, Summarize, Cross Tab, Append Columns, and Summarize tools should solve your problem, not necessarily in this sequence.

If you find yourself struggling with any of the tasks, feel free to explore these interactive lessons in Maveryx Academy for guidance:

• Getting Started with Designer Cloud
• Building Connections in Designer Cloud
• Building Your Workflow in Designer Cloud

Once you have completed this quest, capture a screenshot of your finalized workflow in Designer Cloud and attach the image of your solution to a comment on this post.

Here’s to a successful quest!

SOLUTION

We want to hear from you!

As we introduce our Cloud Quests for the first time, we value your input. Share your thoughts on the clarity of instructions, the provided dataset, the expected output, and any suggestions to enhance your experience.

Thank you!

[JJungers]

I enjoyed this one! Here's my solution.

[Diederik_vanderharst]

now with flow

[ed_hayter]

Cloud Quest 2 Complete

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[TigiPaz]

I could not get mine to work with (==) but found a way using Boolean language.

[Dlawless610]

 

[BS_THE_ANALYST]

Cool stuff.

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[Tom_Pilgrem]

Here's my solution 

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[mceleavey]

Second one in the books.

I think it's unfair doing these challenges while being distracted by @joshuaburkhow 's face on the first page.

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So, I brought the files in and joined them together, keeping the Point of Sale dataset as primary. I then ensured the Date field was assigned the correct data format, then filtered to only show those orders since 2013-07-01. I then counted the total orders along one stream, and on another stream filtered it down to the orders that contained Pizza or Burger and had a side and a drink. Appended these to values together and calculated the percentage of the total orders. Simple.

[Towers]

A fun one!

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[phottovy]

Quest #2 complete!