Best Practices in Alteryx

[aramones]

Hello there! As someone completely new to Alteryx, are there any best practices or settings I should use to help in organizing workflows? I will be learning Alteryx for a college class.

[caltang]

Check out this great article by my friend @ramesh_neel : https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works/10-Alteryx-Tips-and-Best-Practices/ba-p/976036

Some extra links here:

• https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works/Alteryx-Workflow-Governance-What-Are-Your-Best-Practic...
• https://towardsdatascience.com/7-alteryx-best-practices-to-simplify-your-life-b7155cdee56a
• https://www.thedataschool.com.au/antoneely-calizaya/alteryx-documentation-best-practices/ 
• https://medium.com/@alishadhillon__/optimising-your-workflows-in-alteryx-and-best-practice-e5d4e7ed5... 

Welcome to Alteryx once again @aramones ! Hope to see you active here! :D 

[ramesh_neel]

@caltang  - Thanks for sharing ! @aramones  - Hope you find these resourceful! Happy Alterx-ing ;)

[elija6266]

Hello there,

As you mentioned above you are completely new to Alteryx you need to start from the basic key points:

1. Introduction to Alteryx

2. Sample workflows for better understanding

3. Overview of all Alteryx UI

4. Overview of workflow publishing

So these are the basic introduction part where you can take help from various platforms like https://github.com/alteryx , https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Engine-Works/10-Alteryx-Tips-and-Best-Practices/ba-p/976036

and alteryx certification Then, go for Tools: Browse, Input Data, Output Data, Text Input

Identify how to efficiently connect to multiple data sources and write out multiple files

Describe how Data Profiling provides insight into a data set

Differentiate features of Input Data and Text Input tools

Identify how to use wildcards to read in multiple files

Hope the above will help and congratulation for joining Alteryx.