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Challenge #69: Web Stock Data

AndrewS
11 - Bolide

#69

ken_yap_au
8 - Asteroid

Done. 

SueDonim
8 - Asteroid

Again, a helpful exercise (and the YouTube videos on various tools also help....)

 

What I learned:

- Lots of hidden tools in Alteryx.  I need to figure out where to find them and add them to my Toolbar (rather than search one at a time)

- Grabbing and parsing csv files is simple - now I just have to figure out how to find them on a website (and then how to cycle through to capture all of them)

 

Spoiler
By the way, I am noting process here (and in other challenges) for my own records and eventually for others to reference once I become knowledgeable enough that anyone would care about my answer (but today is not that day....)

Process:
- Download file using Download tool
- Separate file into rows (using \n delimiter)
- Separate file into columns (using , delimiter)
- Rename fields with Dynamic Rename tool (selecting use first row as field name setting)
- Swapped "True" for "t"
- Deleted unneeded columns
- Check results with Expect Equal tool (from Marquee Crew)

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mhgarcia
8 - Asteroid

Solved

kmalone007
8 - Asteroid

Solution

blundebjerg
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution

MargaritaW
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

This is the mushroom challenge. I added a batch macro to avoid manually setting the number of columns for splitting the data.

Margarita Wilshire
Sr. Manager, Customer Support Engineering
Women & Allies Committee


Alteryx, Inc.
justindavis
10 - Fireball
Spoiler
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"They're mushrooms - they don't get that high." - Dwight K. Schrute

jagdeep_singh85
8 - Asteroid

PFA my solution

TomProwse
8 - Asteroid