Want to grow with Alteryx Community

[Chetan01]

Hi Team,

I recently joined a firm as a Business Analyst. I am into Alteryx ,Tableau & SQL. I want to learn and grow as Alteryx is a  very  helpful tool which makes it easier to work on data and transform it as per the business needs with drag and drop tool.

I got a mentor who encouraged to go ahead and learn and crack Alteryx Certification.

Thanks @mbarone . Could you please help me with the further steps to crack the Alteryx Certification.

Thanks & Regards,

Chetan Kumar

[mbarone]

Welcome to the Community @Chetan01 !  I have no doubt you'll get that Designer Core Certification quicker than you think.  First thing I would do is head on over to the Academy section of the Community and check out all the different Learning Paths .  I'd start out with Getting Started Learning Path .  Much of it will be review, but always good to hone those skills and see new examples.  Then try your hand at a few Weekly Challenges .  Once you have several of those under your belt, give the Designer Core Certification a shot!  You can always re-take it if you need to (the Designer Core Certification is free!).

As you work through problems, be sure to avail yourself of the Tool Mastery Index - a great resource for taking a deep dive into the tools.

And if you get stuck on something you just can't seem to crack, post your question to the Designer Discussions Board .   You'll find that this is the best Community out there with lots of people willing to help out!

Good luck, and keep us updated,

Cheers!

[AbhilashR]

Hi @Chetan01, welcome to the Alteryx Community and thank you for introducing yourself! 

[TheOC]

hey @Chetan01 , hope you're enjoying your Alteryx journey so far. How have you found it up to this point? 

Be sure to have a look around the community - its really a fantastic place for learning. A couple of resources I would especially recommend knowing about are:

• Alteryx Designer Discussions - A place where users can ask questions about specific Designer workflows they are working on, and receive help from members on the community. Typical response time (from what I've seen) is under 10 minutes for someone to reply with a potential solution, so its a very quick resource for bespoke information. Additionally, you can search using the search function at the top right for specific issues if you happen to run into any that may have been faced by other users before.
• Alteryx User Groups - When I first got into Alteryx, I didn't join User Groups as I thought they would be very technical and that I would need plenty of experience before diving in. However, they really aren't. User groups are an incredibly friendly environment to discuss workflows, what's going on in the Alteryx World, and a great place to network with people in the community. Even better, with the world still being very much virtual at the moment, most of the User Groups (including the North East UK User Group, which I am currently a leader of) are hosting virtual events so they are easy to join.
• The Alteryx Academy - Easily the best place to learn about Alteryx and how to use it. I would especially recommend the learning paths which include short snippets of learning specific topics, including Alteryx for Excel users, which helped me translate a lot of my Excel knowledge over to Alteryx. There are also the weekly challenges, which are challenges delivered by Alteryx on a weekly basis, based around real-life situations and community submitted problems. They are a fantastic way to learn practical uses of Designer, and also its really interesting to see the many different approaches to answering the same problem. Once you have progressed with learning Alteryx, I would definitely recommend the Alteryx Certifications. They are free to do (Core and Advanced), and provide a useful benchmark for your knowledge. You can also just take them again in 7 days, in the case that you don't pass, so don't feel any pressure to know everything before you give them a go!

I hope you find Alteryx to be easy to learn, and intuitive to use. Do remember that almost every tool has an example workflow and help documentation if you right click the tool in the tool palette:

("Help" for the tool documentation, "Open Example" for the example workflow). 

And be sure to search for/ask for help on the community if you get stuck. Alternatively, feel free to drop me a message here on the community!

Cheers,
TheOC